Who put the "Me" in feminism

The sexual politics of narcissism

Bibliographic Data

ID4367162
AuthorsI Tyler (0000-0002-4823-2404, Lancaster University, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume6
Issue1
Pages25-44
Publication date2005-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700105050225
OpenAlexW2023259009
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited18

This article examines what is at stake in the attribution of narcissism to femininity and feminism and the routes through which arguments about 'feminist narcissism' became central to the popular abjection of feminism. It emphasizes the central role of narcissistic theories of identity in enabling feminist theory to prise open the mechanisms of feminine identity and thereby expose and critique the sexual politics of identity practices. The article argues that theorizing the politics of narcissism opens up ways of thinking through some of the pressing and complex questions which face women today, questions of self-identity, self-esteem, body image, cultural idealization, normativity, incorporation, consumption and agency

Aesthetics · Femininity · Feminism · Idealization · Identity politics · Narcissism · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Philosophy · Psychology

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