Differences That Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism - Paperback

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
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 26, 1998
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0521597617
• | ISBN-13: 9780521597616