Social Postmodernism
Beyond Identity Politics

Table of Contents

Introduction Part I. Critiques of Identity:
1. Interpreting gender Linda Nicholson
2. Feminist encounters: locating the politics of experience Chandra Talpade Monhanty
3. Postcolonial criticism and Indian historiography Gyan Prakash
Part II. Critiques of the Deconstruction of Identity:
4. African identities Kwame Anthony Appiah
5. Deconstructing queer theory or the under-theorization of the social and the ethical Steven Seidman
6. Queer visibility in commodity culture Rosemary Hennessy
Part III. Postmodern Approaches to the Social:
7. Gender as seriality: thinking about women as a social collective Iris Marion Young
8. Refiguring social space Cindy Patton
9. Just framing: ethnicities and racisms in a 'postmodern' framework Ali Rattansi
10. Politics culture and the public sphere: toward a postmodern conception Nancy Fraser
Part IV. Postmodern Approaches to the Political:
11. Feminism citizenship and radical democratic politics Chantal Mouffe
12. The space of justice: lesbians and democratic politics Shane Phelan
13. Against the liberal state: ACT-UP and the emergence of postmodern politics Stanley Aronowitz
14. Democracies of pleasure: thoughts on the goals of radical sexual politics R. W. Connell.

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