Nothing Mat(t)Ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism

Lé vi-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.

Author: Somer Brodribb
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Published: 11/15/2022
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
ISBN13: 9781925950724
ISBN10: 1925950727
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Philosophy | Movements | Deconstruction

About the Author
Somer Brodribb taught feminist theory and politics at the University of Victoria in the 1990s. Her experience of backlash is outlined in The Equity Franchise, CCLOW, Women's Education, 1996, and is the focus of Dorothy Smith's chapter Texts and Repression in Writing the Social, 1999. She published on organizing strategies and power. One of her best articles is about establishing a shelter: Winonah's RFR, 1988. She currently lives in England, and her short fiction has appeared in The Sandhopper Lover (2009), produced by the Welsh publisher, Cinnamon Press, online at Writers' Hub (2012), online at Notes from the Underground (2012) and in The French Literary Review, (2012).