num_pages: 232
description: 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.
language: English
title: Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism
titlecomplete: Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism
genres: Theory, Politics, Academic, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Womens, Female Authors, Feminism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory
ratings_count: 44
publisher: Cambridge University Press