Social Postmodernism: Beyond Identity Politics

Abstract

Introduction Part I. Critiques of Identity: 1. Interpreting gender Linda Nicholson 2. Feminist encounters: locating the politics of experience Chandra Talpade Monhanty 3. Postcolonial criticism and Indian historiography Gyan Prakash Part II. Critiques of the Deconstruction of Identity: 4. African identities Kwame Anthony Appiah 5. Deconstructing queer theory or the under-theorization of the social and the ethical Steven Seidman 6. Queer visibility in commodity culture Rosemary Hennessy Part III. Postmodern Approaches to the Social: 7. Gender as seriality: thinking about women as a social collective Iris Marion Young 8. Refiguring social space Cindy Patton 9. Just framing: ethnicities and racisms in a 'postmodern' framework Ali Rattansi 10. Politics culture and the public sphere: toward a postmodern conception Nancy Fraser Part IV. Postmodern Approaches to the Political: 11. Feminism citizenship and radical democratic politics Chantal Mouffe 12. The space of justice: lesbians and democratic politics Shane Phelan 13. Against the liberal state: ACT-UP and the emergence of postmodern politics Stanley Aronowitz 14. Democracies of pleasure: thoughts on the goals of radical sexual politics R. W. Connell.