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Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed [Ahmed, Sara] is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Living a Feminist Life about?
In Living a Feminist LifeSara 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. '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, witty, visionary new way to think about feminist theory. Everyone should
Who reads Living a Feminist Life?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Sara Ahmed [Ahmed, Sara]
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822363194
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Sociology, Gender Studies, Social Science
- Rating
- 4.33 / 5 (213 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14