Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture by Rita Felski (English) Hard

Description: Doing Time by Rita Felski Contemporary theory is full of references to the modern and the postmodern. How useful are these terms? What do they mean? Drawing on cultural studies and critical theory, Rita Felski examines a range of themes central to debates about postmodern culture, including changing meanings of class. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography Rita Felski is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Her previous books include Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change and The Gender of Modernity. Review "Through a composite itinerary which mirrors the amplitude of the authors 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 Long Description 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. Review Quote "Through a composite itinerary which mirrors the amplitude of the authors 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 Details ISBN0814727069 Author Rita Felski Short Title DOING TIME Language English ISBN-10 0814727069 ISBN-13 9780814727065 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2000 Imprint New York University Press Subtitle Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture Country of Publication United States Place of Publication New York Residence VA, US Birth 1956 Affiliation University of Virginia, USA Illustrations black & white illustrations Pages 256 Publisher New York University Press DOI 10.1604/9780814727065 Series Number 11 UK Release Date 2000-09-01 NZ Release Date 2000-09-01 US Release Date 2000-09-01 Series Cultural Front Publication Date 2000-09-01 Alternative 9780814727072 DEWEY 305.4201 Audience Undergraduate AU Release Date 2000-08-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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