general interest
Living a Feminist Life sara ahmed In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed
Sara Ahmed is a feminist writer, scholar, and activist. She is the author of Willful Subjects, On Being Included, The Promise of Happiness, and Queer Phenomenology, all also published by Duke University Press.
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
Living a Feminist Life Sara ahmed
worlds they critique—often by naming and calling attention to problems—and
“From the moment I received Sara Ahmed’s new work, Living a Feminist Life, I couldn’t put it down. It’s such a brilliant,
how feminists learn about worlds from
witty, visionary new way to think about feminist theory.
their efforts to transform them. Ahmed
Everyone should read this book. It offers amazing new ways
also provides her most sustained com-
of knowing and talking about feminist theory and practice. And, it is also delightful, funny, and as the song says,
mentary on the figure of the feminist
‘your love has lifted me higher.’ Ahmed lifts us higher.”
killjoy introduced in her earlier work
—bell hooks
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.
also by Sara Ahmed
Willful Subjects
The Promise of Happiness
978-0-8223-5783-4 / 2014
On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
Available as an e-book
paper, $24.95 / £20.99
paper, $26.95 / £21.99
paper, $22.95 / £18.99
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
978-0-8223-4725-5 / 2010
paper, $24.95 / £20.99
Available as an e-book
978-0-8223-3914-4 / 2006
978-0-8223-5236-5 / 2012
Available as an e-book
Available as an e-book
FEMINISM
February 304 pages, 3 illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–6319–4, $26.95/£21.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–6304–0, $94.95/£79.00 Available as an e-book
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