Differences That Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism

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

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 232

• Publisher
• Cambridge University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780521592253

• Genres
• feminism, philosophy, politics, theory, cultural, academic

• Release date
• 1998