Doing Time : : Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture / / Rita Felski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Felski, Rita,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural Front ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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 modern and the postmodern.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. NOTHING TO DECLARE -- 2. NEW CULTURAL THEORIES OF MODERNITY -- 3. THE INVENTION OF EVERYDAY LIFE -- 4. JUDITH KRANTZ, AUTHOR OF THE CULTURAL LOGICS OF LATE CAPITALISM -- 5. THE DOXA OF DIFFERENCE -- 6. FIN DE SIÈCLE, FIN DE SEXE -- 7. IMAGES OF THE INTELLECTUAL -- 8. WHY FEMINISM DOESN’T NEED AN AESTHETIC (AND WHY IT CAN’T IGNORE AESTHETICS) -- 9. FEMINISM, POSTMODERNISM, AND THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR