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Tables of Contents for Understanding Identity
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
vii
Acknowledgements
xiv
Knowing me, knowing you
1
23
Identity: the story so far
1
1
Self, subject, identity
2
3
Setting the scene: some of the big questions
5
2
The looking-glass self
7
1
The `I' and the `Me'
8
1
Acting the self
9
2
Ethnomethodological accounts of the self
11
2
Troubled selves
13
3
Identity and the unconscious
16
4
Conclusion
20
4
Stories we tell
24
24
Hi-tech stories
26
2
Storied lives
28
6
The self in psychotherapy
34
2
Psychoanalytic approaches
36
4
Object relations
40
4
Ways of knowing
44
1
Conclusion
45
3
Mapping the self: journeys we take
48
26
Home
49
2
Migration
51
3
Globalization
54
8
Diaspora identities
62
6
Changing places; placing changes
68
4
Conclusion
72
2
Re-presenting identities
74
28
A cultural turn
77
1
The science of signs
78
2
Myths and culture
80
3
The semiotic and the psychoanalytic: interpellation
83
1
Consuming identities
84
4
Postmodernist readings; sign values
88
1
Discourse and power
89
3
Seeing is believing
92
2
Portraying the self
94
4
Visual culture
98
2
Conclusion
100
2
Embodying identity
102
33
Sex/gender
107
3
Post-binaries
110
3
Do identities need bodies?
113
5
Body projects
118
2
A sporting diversion
120
4
Imperfect bodies; faulty selves?
124
4
Maternal bodies; maternal selves
128
5
Conclusion
133
2
Roots and routes
135
23
Looking for certainties: the problem of essentialism
138
6
Where do you come from?
144
1
Whiteness and identity
145
3
Representations of whiteness
148
5
Beyond essentialism?
153
3
Conclusion
156
2
Conclusion
158
11
Postmodernism and poststructuralism: different ways of thinking identity?
164
2
Revisiting the dimensions of identity
166
3
References
169
10
Index
179