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Nothing Mat(t)Ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism

Nothing Mat(t)Ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism

Brodribb, Somer

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1875559078
ISBN13: 9781875559077
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Aug 1 1992
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.87 Depth: 9.75
Language: English

An eloquent work. Somer Brodribb not only gives us a feminist critique of postmodernism with its masculinist predeterminants in existentialism, its Freudian footholdings and its Sadean values, but in the very form and texture of the critique, she literally creates new discourse in feminist theory. Brodribb has transcended not only postmodernism but its requirement that we speak in its voice even when criticizing it. She creates a language that is at once poetic and powerfully analytical. Her insistent and compelling radical critique refuses essentialism--from both masculinist thinkers and their women followers. She demystifies postmodernism to reveal that it and its antecedents represent yet another mundane version of patriarchal politics. Ultimately Brodribb returns us to feminist theory with the message that we must refuse to be derivative and continue to originate theory and politics from the condition of women under male domination.

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