The Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies offers an exceptionally clear
overview of the analysis of identity in the social sciences, and in so doing
seeks to develop a new agenda for identity-studies in the twenty-first century.
The key theories of identity, ranging from classical accounts to postmodern,
psychoanalytic and feminist approaches, are drawn together and critically
appraised, and there are substantive sections looking at racial, ethnic,
gendered, queer, consumerist, virtual and global identities. The Handbook also
makes an essential contribution to the debate now opening up over
identity-politics and its cultural consequences. From anti-globalization
protestors to new ecological warriors, from devotees of therapy culture to
defenders of international human