Social postmodernism : beyond identity politics /

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Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Description:xiii, 397 p.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge cultural social studies
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2331304
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Other authors / contributors:Nicholson, Linda J.
Seidman, Steven.
ISBN:0521475163 (hardback)
0521475716 (pbk.)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Critiques of Identity
  • 1. Interpreting gender
  • 2. Feminist encounters: locating the politics of experience
  • 3. Postcolonial criticism and Indian historiography
  • Part II. Critiques of the Deconstruction of Identity
  • 4. African identities
  • 5. Deconstructing queer theory or the under-theorization of the social and the ethical
  • 6. Queer visibility in commodity culture
  • Part III. Postmodern Approaches to the Social
  • 7. Gender as seriality: thinking about women as a social collective
  • 8. Refiguring social space
  • 9. Just framing: ethnicities and racisms in a 'postmodern' framework
  • 10. Politics culture and the public sphere: toward a postmodern conception
  • Part IV. Postmodern Approaches to the Political
  • 11. Feminism citizenship and radical democratic politics
  • 12. The space of justice: lesbians and democratic politics
  • 13. Against the liberal state: ACT-UP and the emergence of postmodern politics
  • 14. Democracies of pleasure: thoughts on the goals of radical sexual politics