Gender, culture, and power : toward a feminist postmodern critical theory
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Gender, culture, and power : toward a feminist postmodern critical theory
Praeger, 1993
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Bibliography: p. [159]-168
Includes index
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Description
Agger develops a critical theory which confronts the challenges of feminism and postmodernism in order to address postmodernity adequately. Drawing on first-generation critical theory of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse and second-generation critical theory of Habermas, Agger argues for the priority of critical theory over the antitotality perspectives of postmodernism and feminism. Although Frankfurt critical theory, postmodernism, and feminism are often viewed as divergent, Agger develops an argument for synthesis, outlining what he calls the logic of feminist postmodern critical theory. He then applies the logic to particular social, political, textual, and cultural problems. Building especially on the feminist critique of the domination of women's reproductive activities by a male standard of value, this new theoretical logic connects social problems heretofore seen as separable, especially those which derive from the intellectual agenda of multiculturalism.
Table of Contents
Critical Theory and Postmodernity Postmodernism and the End of Politics 1: New French Theory Postmodernism and the End of Politics 2: Feminist Theory Producing Reproduction: The Logic of Feminist Postmodern Critical Theory Critical Theory and Everyday Life 1: Against Economism Critical Theory and Everyday Life 2: Desire, Discourse and Domination Bibliography Index
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