N ancy Fraser’s feminist philosophy offers a model for politically engaged scholarship that speaks to some of the most contentious issues facing contemporary feminist politics. While many bemoan the depoliticization of academic feminism, Fraser has consistently applied her philosophical skill to construct a progressive alternative to a disengaged academic feminism—to what Hortense Spillers calls “the impasse of feminist practice and critique” (Lurie et al. 2001). Signs coeditors Sandra Harding and Kate Norberg invited me to interview Fraser and to look for “fresh angles on her work.” Harding and Norberg reviewed the transcript and suggested several themes to highlight as we edited the transcription for publication. In editing the product of our daylong conversation, we tried to retain the rhythm and substance of the original. In some places we have added new text to clarify points raised. In other places we have removed portions of the text to improve the flow of presentation. We came to this conversation from two different disciplinary locations (sociology and philosophy) but with a similar commitment to producing scholarship that critically interprets the world in an effort to change it. Fraser applies her skill as a philosopher and her feminist insights to struggles for social and economic justice. Her critical reflection provides theoretical tools required to address the dilemmas posed by the “postsocialist” condition that dominates our everyday lives. She defines the “postsocialist” condition as “an absence of any credible overarching emancipatory project despite the proliferation of fronts of struggle; a general decoupling of the cultural politics of recognition from the social politics of redistribution; and a decentering of claims for equality in the face of