Gender, Culture, and Power: Toward a Feminist Postmodern Critical Theory (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780275947002)

Agger develops a critical theory which confronts the challenges of feminism and postmodernism in order to address postmodernity adequately. Drawing on first-generation critical theory of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse and second-generation critical theory of Habermas, Agger argues for the priority of critical theory over the antitotality perspectives of postmodernism and feminism. Although Frankfurt critical theory, postmodernism, and feminism are often viewed as divergent, Agger develops an argument for synthesis, outlining what he calls the logic of feminist postmodern critical theory. He then applies the logic to particular social, political, textual, and cultural problems. Building especially on the feminist critique of the domination of women's reproductive activities by a male standard of value, this new theoretical logic connects social problems heretofore seen as separable, especially those which derive from the intellectual agenda of multiculturalism.

Author: Ben Agger
ISBN-10: 0275947009
ISBN-13: 9780275947002
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 11/30/1993
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d