Imagining Selves

This book examines a number of theoretical positions proposed by adult educators in relation to five poststructural perspectives. The analysis begins with a Lacanian interpretation of subjectivity in the complexities of female bonding with the Other, then follows with Foucault's concepts of knowledge and power, Derrida's perspective on differ"ance," Baudrillard's thesis on -simulacra, - and closes with Lyotard's philosophy on the -postmodern condition.- The study argues that objects of knowledge are locally and historically specific, and that they become available for human understanding only within certain -language games, - -paradigms, - and -discursive formations.- Further, the study investigates the central role film narratives play in the process of socialization while questioning simultaneously, the ideological processes forming our subjectivities."