Introduction
Feminism and Postmodernism; Or, The Way We Live Now
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11327035 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Wicke (corresponding author), Margaret Ferguson |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | boundary 2 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-3659 • E-ISSN: 1527-2141 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/303530 |
| OpenAlex | W2324199075 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
It may seem odd to echo Trollope in the introduction to a collection whose domain appears to be at the farthest remove from the vanished certainties of the world of the nineteenth-century realist novel. Yet, the boldness of Trollope's title can also serve to mark a strong boundary line for our own volume-in a quite simple sense, the awkward pairing formed by linking feminism and postmodernism is a description of our lives. The feminism practiced, theorized, and lived by many women (and men) today is set against, or arises within, the vicissitudes of a transforming postmodernity-as a set of practices, an arena of theory, and a mode of life. This may not be a comfortable dwelling place, but it does make up a world, a form of life (shifting the echoes to those notions of Heidegger or Wittgenstein which are apt here), with which feminism necessarily conjures. The animating idea of this issue is that postmodernism is, indeed, a name for the way we live now, and it needs to be taken account of, put into practice, and even contested within feminist discourses as a way of coming to terms with our lived situations. This is not to say that postmodernity is to be
Art · Feminism · Literature · Postmodernism · Sociology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Gender Studies · History
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1995 - 2016 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |