Living a feminist life / Sara Ahmed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahmed, Sara, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Summary:

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 forming support systems-to survive the shattering experiences of facing the walls of racism and sexism. The killjoy survival kit and killjoy manifesto, with which the book concludes, supply practical tools for how to live a feminist life, thereby strengthening the ties between the inventive creation of feminist theory and living a life that sustains it. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Feminism is sensational

On being directed

Willfulness and feminist subjectivity

Trying to transform

Being in question

Brick walls

Fragile connections

Feminist snap

Lesbian feminism

Conclusion 1: A killjoy survival kit

Conclusion 2: A killjoy manifesto.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ahmed, Sara, 1969- Living a feminist life.

ISBN:

9780822363040

0822363046

9780822363194

0822363194

9780822373377

0822373378

OCLC:

946461715