Name: Living a Feminist Life
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Author: Sara Ahmed
ISBN: 9780822363194

Type

Physical Book

Author

Sara Ahmed

Publisher

Duke University Press

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

299

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.0 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9780822363194

Synopsis "Living a Feminist Life "

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.

Sara Ahmed

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Sara Ahmed (nacida en 1969) es una académica y escritora británico-australiana, experta en feminismo, teoría queer, teoría poscolonial y teoría del afecto, conocida por su concepto de "feminista aguafiestas", que denuncia la discriminación en instituciones, y por renunciar a su puesto en la Universidad de Goldsmiths en protesta por el acoso sexual, siendo una figura clave en el análisis de la felicidad, la queja y la identidad a través de lentes críticos.

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