Lois McNay

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Lois McNay is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Lois McNay has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 5 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Lois McNay's work include Foucault, Power, and Ethics (10 papers), Critical Theory and Philosophy (6 papers) and Political Philosophy and Ethics (4 papers). Lois McNay is often cited by papers focused on Foucault, Power, and Ethics (10 papers), Critical Theory and Philosophy (6 papers) and Political Philosophy and Ethics (4 papers). Lois McNay collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Austria. Lois McNay's co-authors include Janet H. Ransom, Mathias Thaler, Oliver Marchart, Sergei Prozorov, Aletta J. Norval and Mihaela Mihai and has published in prestigious journals such as Theory Culture & Society, The Sociological Review and Economy and Society.

In The Last Decade

Lois McNay

27 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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Gender and Agency: Reconfiguring the Subject in Feminist and Social Theory

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lois McNay United Kingdom	15	1.3k	724	335	247	173	27	2.1k
Uma Narayan United States	15	1.6k 1.3×	851 1.2×	473 1.4×	316 1.3×	72 0.4×	29	2.9k
Joan W. Scott United States	13	1.4k 1.1×	711 1.0×	412 1.2×	204 0.8×	75 0.4×	24	2.6k
Lisa Adkins Australia	26	1.3k 1.0×	677 0.9×	305 0.9×	152 0.6×	164 0.9×	75	2.1k
Shamus Khan United States	20	1.6k 1.2×	637 0.9×	364 1.1×	368 1.5×	130 0.8×	54	2.4k
Mary Gluck United States	8	1.3k 1.0×	267 0.4×	338 1.0×	345 1.4×	107 0.6×	26	2.4k
Nancy Whittier United States	18	1.7k 1.3×	597 0.8×	756 2.3×	96 0.4×	108 0.6×	31	2.5k
Tom Gretton	4	1.3k 1.0×	267 0.4×	246 0.7×	197 0.8×	109 0.6×	13	2.4k
Sandra Jackson United States	4	1.3k 1.0×	866 1.2×	241 0.7×	375 1.5×	52 0.3×	12	2.4k
Harriet Bradley United Kingdom	18	809 0.6×	384 0.5×	269 0.8×	266 1.1×	128 0.7×	42	1.5k
Les Back United Kingdom	23	1.8k 1.4×	391 0.5×	306 0.9×	224 0.9×	47 0.3×	81	2.5k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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McNay, Lois. (2022). The Gender of Critical Theory. 6 indexed citations

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McNay, Lois. (2021). The politics of welfare. European Journal of Political Theory. 22(1). 171–180. 1 indexed citations

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McNay, Lois. (2018). The politics of exemplarity: Ferrara on the disclosure of new political worlds. Philosophy & Social Criticism. 45(2). 127–145. 1 indexed citations

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Mihai, Mihaela, Lois McNay, Oliver Marchart, et al.. (2017). Democracy, critique and the ontological turn. Contemporary Political Theory. 16(4). 501–531. 8 indexed citations

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McNay, Lois. (2016). The limits of justification: Critique, disclosure and reflexivity. European Journal of Political Theory. 19(1). 26–46. 4 indexed citations

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McNay, Lois. (2015). Social Freedom and Progress in the Family: Reflections on Care, Gender and Inequality. Critical Horizons. 16(2). 170–186. 9 indexed citations

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McNay, Lois. (2014). The Misguided Search for the Political: Social Weightlessness in Radical Democratic Theory. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 17 indexed citations

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McNay, Lois. (2010). Feminism and Post‐Identity Politics: The Problem of Agency. Constellations. 17(4). 512–525. 29 indexed citations

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McNay, Lois. (2009). Self as Enterprise. Theory Culture & Society. 26(6). 55–77. 244 indexed citations

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McNay, Lois. (2003). Having it Both Ways. Theory Culture & Society. 20(6). 1–20. 31 indexed citations

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McNay, Lois. (2003). Agency, Anticipation and Indeterminacy in Feminist Theory. Feminist Theory. 4(2). 139–148. 63 indexed citations

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McNay, Lois. (2001). Meditations on Pascalian Meditations. Economy and Society. 30(1). 139–154. 13 indexed citations

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McNay, Lois. (1999). Gender, Habitus and the Field. Theory Culture & Society. 16(1). 95–117. 462 indexed citations

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McNay, Lois. (1999). Gender and narrative identity. Journal of Political Ideologies. 4(3). 315–336. 25 indexed citations

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McNay, Lois. (1999). Subject, Psyche and Agency. Theory Culture & Society. 16(2). 175–193. 93 indexed citations

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McNay, Lois. (1996). Michel de Certeau and the ambivalent everyday. Social Semiotics. 6(1). 61–81. 15 indexed citations

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Ransom, Janet H. & Lois McNay. (1994). Foucault and Feminism: Power, Gender and the Self. Feminist Review. 115–115. 117 indexed citations

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McNay, Lois. (1992). The problems of the self in Foucault's ethics of the self. Third Text. 6(19). 3–8. 3 indexed citations

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McNay, Lois. (1992). Foucault and feminism. 155 indexed citations

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McNay, Lois. (1991). The Foucauldian Body and the Exclusion of Experience. Hypatia. 6(3). 125–139. 53 indexed citations

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