Differences That Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism

ISBN-13: 9780521597616 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 232 str.

Sara Ahmed

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: speaking back; 1. Rights; 2. Ethics; 3. Woman; 4. Subjects; 5. Authorship; 6. (Meta)fictions; 7. Screens; Conclusion: events that move us.