The Gender of Modernity

by Rita Felski

Book Overview

In an innovative and invigorating exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, Rita Felski challenges conventional male-centered theories of modernity. She also calls into question those feminist perspectives that have either demonized the modern as inherently patriarchal, or else assumed a simple opposition between men's and women's experiences of the modern world.

Combining cultural history with cultural theory, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674341945
• ISBN13: 9780674341944
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"