The Postmodern turn : new perspectives on social theory /

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Imprint:Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Description:vi, 312 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1603811
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Other authors / contributors:Seidman, Steven
ISBN:052145235X
052145879X (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The postmodern condition Jean-Francois Lyotard
  • 2. Genealogy and social criticism Michel Foucault
  • 3. Method, social science, and social hope Richard Rorty
  • 4. The new cultural politics of difference Cornel West
  • 5. A manifesto for Cyborgs: science, technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980s Donna Haraway
  • 6. The end of sociological theory Steven Seidman
  • 7. The theoretical subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American feminism Norma Alarcon
  • 8. Contingent foundations: feminism and the question of postmodernism Judith Butler
  • 9. Subjectivity and social analysis Renato Rosaldo
  • 10. Is there a postmodern sociology? Zygmunt Bauman
  • 11. On ethnographic allegory James Clifford
  • 12. Rhetoric, textuality, and the postmodern turn in sociological theory Richard Brown
  • 13. Social criticism without philosophy: an encounter between feminism and postmodernism Nancy Fraser and Linda Nicholson
  • 14. Post-structuralism and sociology Charles Lemert
  • 15. Deconstructing equality-versus-difference: or, the uses of poststructuralist theory for feminism Joan Scott
  • 16. The plague of discourse: politics, literary theory, and AIDS Lee Edelman