Differences That Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521597616)

Differences That Matter challenges theories of the relationship between feminism and postmodernism that ask "is/should feminism be modern or postmodern?" Pointing out how postmodernism has been allowed to dictate feminist debates, Sara Ahmed argues instead that feminism must itself ask questions of postmodernism; that feminist theorists speak (back) to postmodernism rather than simply speak on (their relationship to) it. This "speaking back" involves a refusal to position postmodernism as a generalizable condition of the world, using close readings of postmodern constructions of rights, ethics, "woman," subjectivity, authorship and film.

Author: Sara Ahmed
ISBN-10: 0521597617
ISBN-13: 9780521597616
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/26/1998
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.01w x 0.59d