Chris Weedon. Feminist practice and poststructuralist theory. Oxford, Blackwell, 1987.

The aim of this book is to make poststructuralist theory accessible to readers to whom it is unfamiliar, to argue its political usefulness to feminism and to consider its implications for feminist critical practice. By feminist critical practice I mean ways of understanding social and cultural practices which throw light on how gender power relations are constituted, reproduced and contested. I begin by considering the relationship between feminism as a politics, both of the personal and the social, and theory. Chapter 1 suggests that the feminist focus on women's experience which brings together the personal and the political is extremely important but requires further theorization. Post-structuralist theories of language, subjectivity, discourse and power seem to me to offer useful ways of understanding experience and relating it to social power.