Libros de Sara Ahmed

The Feminist Killjoy Handbook

• 256 páginas
• Do colleagues roll their eyes in a meeting when you use words like sexism or racism? Do you refuse to laugh at jokes that aren't funny? Have you been called divisive for pointing out a division? Then you are a feminist killjoy, and this handbook is...

Manual De La Feminista Aguafiestas

• 297 páginas

The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential Of Getting In The Way

• 295 páginas
• "As long as feminists have existed, they have been accused of being "killjoys," "buzzkills," "party poopers," and "wet blankets." For having the audacity to insist on a more-just world, feminists are criticized...

Complaint!

• In Complaint! Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made complaints about harassment, bullying, and unequal working...

What's The Use?: On The Uses Of Use

• 296 páginas
• In What’s the Use? Sara Ahmed continues the work she began in The Promise of Happiness and Willful Subjects by taking up a single word—in this case, use —and following it around. She shows how use beca...

Living A Feminist Life

• 299 páginas
• 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...

Willful Subjects

• 292 páginas
• In Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against..

Willful Subjects

• In Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. One history of will is a history of attempts to eliminate willfulness from the will. Delving into philosophical and literary texts, Ahmed examines the relat...

The Promise Of Happiness

• "The Promise of Happiness" is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It..

On Being Included: Racism And Diversity In Institutional Life

• 243 páginas
• What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity...

Queer Phenomenology

• 232 páginas
• In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the “orientation” aspect of “sexual orientation” and the...

Thinking Through The Skin

• 241 páginas
• This exciting collection of work from leading feminist scholars including Elspeth Probyn, Penelope Deutscher and Chantal Nadeau engages with and extends the growing feminist literature on lived and imagined embodiment and argues for consideration of the...

Transformations

• 341 páginas
• With contributions from some of the most important current feminist thinkers, Transformations traces both the shifts in thinking that have allowed feminism to arrive at its present point, and the way that feminist agendas have progressed in line with wide...

Strange Encounters

• Examining the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community, Strange Encounters challenges the assumptions that the stranger is simply anybody we do not recognize and instead proposes that he or she is socially constructued as somebody we alrea...

Differences That Matter

• 232 páginas
• Differences That Matter challenges theories of the relationship between feminism and postmodernism that ask "is/should feminism be modern or postmodern?" Pointing out how postmodernism has been allowed to dictate feminist debates, Sara Ahmed...

Differences That Matter