Doing time : feminist theory and postmodern culture / Rita Felski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Felski, Rita, 1956-

Series:

Cultural front (Series)

Cultural front

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

214 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2000]

Summary:

Contemporary theory is full of references to the modern and the postmodern. How useful are these terms? What exactly do they mean? And how is our sense of these terms changing under the pressure of feminist analysis?

In Doing Time, Rita Felski argues that it makes little sense to think of the modern and postmodern as opposing or antithetical terms. Rather, we need a historical perspective that is attuned to cultural and political differences within the same time as well as the leaky boundaries between different times.

Neither the modern nor the postmodern are unified, coherent, or self-evident realities. Drawing on cultural studies and critical theory, Felski examines a range of themes central to debates about postmodern culture, including changing meanings of class, the end of history, the status of art and aesthetics, postmodernism as "the end of sex, " and the politics of popular culture. Placing women at the center of analysis, she suggests, has a profound impact on the way we thing about historical periods. As a result, feminist theory is helping to reshape our vision of both the modern and the postmodern.

Contents:

Nothing to declare : identity, shame, and the lower middle class

New cultural theories of modernity

The invention of everyday life

Judith Krantz, author of The cultural logics of late capitalism

The doxa of difference

Fin de siècle, fin de sexe : transsexuality and the death of history

Images of the intellectual : from philosophy to cultural studies

Why feminism doesn't need an aesthetic (and why it can't ignore aesthetics)

Feminism, postmodernism, and the critique of modernity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0814727069

0814727077

OCLC:

43784558