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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-139780822363194
eBay Product ID (ePID)232672930
Product Key Features
Number of Pages312 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameLiving a Feminist Life
Publication Year2017
SubjectSocial Sciences, History
TypeTextbook
AuthorSara Ahmed
Subject AreaGender Issues
Dimensions
Item Height229 mm
Item Weight431 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorSara Ahmed