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  Title

  Living a feminist life

  Author

  Ahmed, Sara, 1969-  

  Pub date:

  2017.

  Pages:

  299 pages :

  ISBN:

  9780822363194

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Ralph Pickard Bell Library.
  

  • Holdings

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    Ralph Pickard Bell Library	Copies	Material	Location
    HQ 1190 .A36 2017	1	BOOK	Book Stacks

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  ISBN:

  9780822363194 (Paper)

  ISBN:

  0822363194 (Paper)

  ISBN:

  9780822363040 (hardcover)

  ISBN:

  9780822373377 (ebook)

  Local LC call number:

  HQ 1190 .A36 2017 STK

  Personal Author:

  Ahmed, Sara, 1969-

  Title:

  Living a feminist life / Sara Ahmed.

  Publisher:

  Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

  Physical description:

  299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

  Content Type:

  text

  Media Type:

  unmediated

  Carrier Type:

  volume

  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.

  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 critiqueoften by naming and calling attention to problemsand 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 solutionssuch as forming support systemsto 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.

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  Subject term:

  Feminist theory.

  Subject term:

  Feminism.