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Sara Ahmed - Living a Feminist Life - 9780822363040 - V9780822363040
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Living a Feminist Life

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Description for Living a Feminist Life Hardback. Showing how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist, Sara Ahmed highlights the ties between feminist theory and living a life that sustains it by building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship and discussing the figure of the feminist killjoy. Num Pages: 312 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFK; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they critique-often by naming and calling attention to problems-and how feminists learn about worlds from their efforts to transform them. Ahmed also provides her most sustained commentary on the figure of the feminist killjoy introduced in her earlier work while showing how feminists create inventive solutions-such as ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822363040
SKU
V9780822363040
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Sara Ahmed
Sara Ahmed is a feminist writer, scholar, and activist. She is the author of Willful Subjects, On Being Included, The Promise of Happiness, and Queer Phenomenology, all also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews for Living a Feminist Life
Living a Feminist Life hopes we can survive doing feminist theory, and energises us to do so.
Clare Croft
Feminist Theory
[Ahmed's] prose style . . . is incantatory and quizzical, probing and playful. . . . Ahmed holds particular words up to the light and lets their unsuspected facets gleam, polishing their queer potential. ... Read more

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