"Through a composite itinerary which mirrors the amplitude of the
author's theoretical interests-in the borderland between literary
criticism, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies-the volume
contributes to the debate on
postmodernism/poststructuralism/feminism with particular force and
argumentative intelligence. In fact, the perspective it opens
challenges some of the most usual commonplaces of the contemporary
feminist debate."
--"Feminist Theory"
"A reasoned, commonsensical approach to thorny postmodern
philosophicaland political dilemmas."
--"Modern Fiction Studies"
Contemporary theory is full of references to the modern and the
postmodern. How useful are these terms? What exactly do they mean?
And how is our sense of these terms changing under the pressure of
feminist analysis?
In Doing Time, Rita Felski argues that it makes little sense to
think of the modern and postmodern as opposing or antithetical
terms. Rather, we need a historical perspective that is attuned to
cultural and political differences within the same time as well as
the leaky boundaries between different times.
Neither the modern nor the postmodern are unified, coherent, or
self-evident realities. Drawing on cultural studies and critical
theory, Felski examines a range of themes central to debates about
postmodern culture, including changing meanings of class, the end
of history, the status of art and aesthetics, postmodernism as "the
end of sex," and the politics of popular culture. Placing women at
the center of analysis, she suggests, has a profound impact on the
way we thing about historical periods. As a result, feminist theory
is helping to reshape our vision of both the modernand the
postmodern.
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