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In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life & the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home & at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic & personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they critique—often by naming & 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 & sexism. The killjoy survival kit & 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 & living a life that sustains it.°°° Sara Ahmed is a feminist writer & independent scholar who works at the intersection of feminist, queer, & race studies. Winner of the 2017 Kessler Award from CLAGS, the Center for LGBTQ Studies, Ahmed has pub

Who reads Living a Feminist Life?

Author

Sara Ahmed

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822363194

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Gender Studies, Social Science, Fiction

Rating

4.33 / 5 (213 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14