Cynical theories : how activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity-and why this harms everybody
Record details
- ISBN: 1634312023
- ISBN: 9781634312028
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Physical Description:
351 pages ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Durham, North Carolina : Pitchstone Publishing, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
General Note: | In title "Cynical" appears above the word "Critical", which is presented with a strickthrough. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Postmodernist: a revolution in knowledge and power -- Postmodernism's applied turn: making oppression real -- Postcolonial theory: deconstructing the West to save the other -- Queer theory: freedom from the normal -- Critical race theory and intersectionality: ending racism by seeing it everywhere -- Feminisms and gender studies: simplification as sophistication -- Disability and fat studies: support-group identity theory -- Social justice scholarship and thought: the truth according to social justice -- Social justice in action: theory always looks good on paper -- An alternative to the ideology of social justice: liberalism without identity politics. |
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Subject: | Postmodernism Philosophy, Modern 20th century Authoritarianism |
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