* Contents

* Acknowledgements

* Introduction

* The Arts of Self

* Concepts of the Self

* How the Self is Constructed and Changed

* The Structure of the Book

* 1 Self, Society and Everyday Life

* Self, Symbols and Others: Symbolic Interactionism

* Presentations of Self: Goffman

* Reflexivity and the Self: Giddens

* 2 The Repression of Self

* Psychoanalysis and the Self

* Culture and Repression

* 3 Technologies of the Self

* Technologies of the Self: Foucault

* Governmentalities: New Technologies, New Selves

* 4 Self, Sexuality and Gender

* Feminism and Psychoanalysis: Two Recent Views

* The Politics of Gender Performance: Butler

* Queer Theory: Contesting Self, Defying Gender

* 5 The Postmodern Self

* All that is Modern Melts into Postmodern?

* Strategies of the Self: Modern and Postmodern

* Conclusion

* Inner Depth, or Inside Out

* Identity Politics, or Critique of Self

* Index