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Gender, Culture, and Power: Toward a Feminist Postmodern Critical Theory

Gender, Culture, and Power: Toward a Feminist Postmodern Critical Theory

Agger, Ben

Hardcover

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0275947009
ISBN13: 9780275947002
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Nov 30 1993
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Agger develops a critical theory which confronts the challenges of feminism and postmodernism in order to address postmodernity adequately. Drawing on first-generation critical theory of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse and second-generation critical theory of Habermas, Agger argues for the priority of critical theory over the antitotality perspectives of postmodernism and feminism. Although Frankfurt critical theory, postmodernism, and feminism are often viewed as divergent, Agger develops an argument for synthesis, outlining what he calls the logic of feminist postmodern critical theory. He then applies the logic to particular social, political, textual, and cultural problems. Building especially on the feminist critique of the domination of women's reproductive activities by a male standard of value, this new theoretical logic connects social problems heretofore seen as separable, especially those which derive from the intellectual agenda of multiculturalism.

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