 Cover design by Liz Nicholson Design BITE Permission to use images and text should be directed to Spinifex Press In this challenging and controversial work, political theorist Somer Brodribb explains the foundations of recent postmodern theory and criticises and demystifies postmodernism. |
Nothing Mat(t)ersA Feminist Critique of PostmodernismSOMER BRODRIBB
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Lévi-Strauss tried to convince women that we are spoken, exchanged like words; Lacan tried to teach women we can’t speak, because the phallus is the original signifier; and then Derrida says that it doesn’t matter, it’s just talk.
Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Nietzsche: the chant resonates through universities around the world. Have you ever tried to untangle the words of postmodernist theorists? How to find your way through the labyrinth to sense and clarity? If so, this is the book for you.
‘An eloquent work, Somer Brodribb gives us a feminist critique of postmodernism … [and] in the very form and texture of the critique, she literally creates new discourse in feminist theory.’
—Kathleen Barry
‘This is an iconoclastic work brilliantly undertaken.’ —Andrée Michel
‘This is a long-awaited and much-needed book from a tough-minded, embodied and unflinching scholar.’ —Janice Raymond
288pp 248 x 173
Territories:World
All rights:Spinifex
