This chapter began life at the 'Agency and Coercion'workshop held by the Gender Institute at
LSE in May 2010, where Amal responded to Clare's paper on differing feminist histories of …

Why has 'agency'been such a tenacious concept in historical scholarship on women and
gender, and what have been the consequences on this tenacity? This essay tackles these …

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Phillips and Kalpana Wilson Page 2 Gender, Agency, and Coercion Page 3 Thinking Gender …

Current debates in feminist theory struggle to retain a robust concept of agency in light of the
rejection of an independent and sovereign subject. The purpose of my project is to articulate …

Much contemporary work on agency offers only a partial account because it remains within
an essentially negative understanding of subject formation. This essay examines the work of …

This book reassesses theories of agency and gender identity against the backdrop of
changing relations between men and women in contemporary societies. McNay argues that …

poststructuralist theorists. These are summarised in the Table on page 41. In
poststructurahst theory, which is developed in large part in contrast to humanist theory," the …

This paper is a theoretical and empirical investigation into whether persons in subordinate
social contexts possess agency and if they do, how do we recognise and recover their …

Our aim in this chapter is to examine what we see as a 'turn to agency'within feminism, in the
context of the widespread take-up and popularisation of postfeminist ideas. Our particular …

Agency has been much discussed in both popular and academic feminist discourse,
particularly in the context of empowerment and sexual practices. Following a third-wave …