Home and Identity: In Memory of Iris Marion Young ALLISON WEIR Drawing on Iris Marion Young’s essay, “House and Home: Feminist Variations on a Theme,” Weir argues for an alternative ideal of home that inwolves: (1) the risk of connection, and of sustaining relationship through conflict; (2) relational identi- ties, constituted through both relations of zyxwv power and relations of mutuality, lowe, and flourishing; (3) relational autonomy: freedom zyxw a5 the capacity to zyxw be in relationships one desires, and freedom zyxwvu as expansion of self in relationship; and zyx (4) connection to past and future, through reinterpretive preservation and transformatiwe identification. I think how I just want to feel at home, where people know me; instead I remember. zyx . . that home was a place of forced subservience, and 1 know that my wish is that of an adult wanting to stay a child; to be known by others, but to know nothing, to feel no responsibility. The place that I missed sometimes seemed like a memory of childhood, but it was not a childish place. It was a place of mutuality, companionship, creativity, sensuousness, easiness in the body, curiosity . . . hope . , . safety and love. -Minnie Bruce Pratt In this paper, I want to revisit some feminist reflections on home, and particu- larly on home as a metaphor for identity. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, several feminist theorists, drawing on Minnie Bruce Pratt’s “Identity: Skin Hypatia vol. 23, no. 3 (July-Scptrrnher 2008) zyxwv 0 zyx by Allison Weir