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Living a Feminist Life
Written by Sara Ahmed
Narrated by Larissa Gallagher
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In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed 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 worlds they critique-often by naming and calling attention to problems-and how feminists learn about worlds from their efforts to transform them. Ahmed also provides her most sustained commentary on the figure of the feminist killjoy introduced in her earlier work 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.
Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they critique-often by naming and calling attention to problems-and how feminists learn about worlds from their efforts to transform them. Ahmed also provides her most sustained commentary on the figure of the feminist killjoy introduced in her earlier work 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.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5well-written but very theoretical and high-brow. best suited for readers working in academia i assume, gender studies and such.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing! Cannot recommend enough! It is well thought out, well researched and straight from the heart
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent piece of work. I love Ahmed's careful and deliberate choice of words; the etymology and semantics. Makes for fascinating reading!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great work, empowering, on the spot & honest.
Everyone should read this book :)1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This author thinks you cannot be a feminist if you are a mother.
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