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Subjectivity

book Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies
by Greta LaFleur

What does it mean to be a subject—to be a subject of or to be subject to? What does it mean, what does it feel like, to be hailed—interpellated, as some theorists have termed it—as a subject? And what is the relationship between being a subject and having a subjectivity?

This essay may be found on page 231 of the printed volume.

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