Living a Feminist Life, Sara Ahmed
Living a Feminist Life, Sara Ahmed
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Living a Feminist Life

Author: Sara Ahmed

Narrator: Larissa Gallagher

Unabridged: 14 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/29/2017


Synopsis

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.

About Sara Ahmed

Sara Ahmed is a feminist writer, scholar, and activist. She is the author of Willful Subjects, On Being Included, The Promise of Happiness, and Queer Phenomenology, all published by Duke University Press.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Thomas

4.5 stars A stellar academic feminist text that delves into how feminists call attention to problems, therefore transforming the world in ways both uncomfortable and necessary. Sara Ahmed grounds her assertions with the premise that "happiness" often means conforming to problematic, patriarchal socie......more

Goodreads review by May

Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed is not a book about feminist theory; rather, it's about the experiences of feminists in real life. How we are perceived as making trouble when everything is "supposedly" fine and dandy, how our pointing out sexism and/or racism is judged as a wish to direct atten......more

Goodreads review by Kevin

Preamble: --So, during this semi-lockdown winter I’ve been binging on videos by Mexie (check out her fabulous Youtube videos and podcast), and inspired by her balance of: a) structural/materialist analysis (i.e. political economy, political ecology, Earth Systems science), with b) cultural analysis (i.......more

Living a Feminist Life demonstrates how feminist theory grows out of daily life, how taking the words of daily life, lifting them up and inspecting them from all sides brings deeper understanding of how the world is structured, how oppression is given force through expectations and demands to be hap......more