Differences That Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism

by Sara Ahmed

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521597617
• ISBN13: 9780521597616
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"