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Living a Feminist Life
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Author/Editor:
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Ahmed, Sara.
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Publisher:
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Duke University Press
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pbk. |
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book |
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Pages:
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312 |
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Pubn Year:
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2017 |
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$53.95
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Price (NZ RRP): |
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$49.05 AUD ex GST
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Discount Code: |
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A3 Firm Sale
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ISBN:
9780822363194
ISBN10:
0822363194
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Description: In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated fromeveryday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and atwork. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmedoffers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged fromworlds they critique—often by naming and calling attention to problems—andhow feminists learn about worlds from their efforts to transform them. Ahmedalso provides her most sustained commentary on the figure of the feministkilljoy introduced in her earlier work while showing how feminists createinventive solutions—such as forming support systems—to survive theshattering experiences of facing the walls of racism and sexism. The killjoysurvival kit and killjoy manifesto, with which the book concludes, supplypractical tools for how to live a feminist life, thereby strengthening the tiesbetween the inventive creation of feminist theory and living a life thatsustains it.
Contents: Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Bringing Feminist Theory Home 1Part I. Becoming Feminist 191. Feminism Is Sensational 212. On Being Directed 433. Willfulness and Feminist Subjectivity 65Part II. Diversity Work4. Trying to Transform 935. Being in Question 1156. Brick Walls 135Part III. Living the Consequences7. Fragile Connections 1638. Feminist Snap 1879. Lesbian Feminism 213Conclusion 1. A Killjoy Survival Kit 235Conclusion 2. A Killjoy Manifesto 251Notes 269References 281Index 291
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