Difference Troubles: Queering Social Theory and Sexual Politics (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies) - Hardcover

Seidman, Steven

 
9780521590433: Difference Troubles: Queering Social Theory and Sexual Politics (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521590434 ISBN 13: 9780521590433
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Difference Troubles, first published in 1997, examines the implications for social theory and sexual politics of taking difference seriously. It explores the trouble difference makes not only for the social sciences, but also for the people - feminists, queer theorists, postmodernists - who champion difference. Seidman asks how social thinkers should conceptualize differences such as gender, race, and sexuality, without reducing them to an inferior status. This is a wide-ranging and sophisticated discussion of contemporary social theory and sexual politics, presented with Seidman's familiar imagination and clarity. In addition, it argues persuasively for a pragmatic approach to difference troubles in theory and politics.

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Book Description

What are the implications for social theory of taking difference seriously? In this 1997 book, Steven Seidman offers a wide-ranging and sophisticated discussion of social theory and sexual politics, and argues persuasively for a pragmatic approach to questions of difference in theory and politics.

Synopsis

Difference Troubles examines the implications for social theory and sexual politics of taking difference seriously. It explores the trouble difference makes not only for the social sciences, but also for the people - feminists, queer theorists, postmodernists - who champion difference. Seidman asks how social thinkers should conceptualize differences such as gender, race, and sexuality, without reducing them to an inferior status. This is a wide-ranging and sophisticated discussion of contemporary social theory and sexual politics, presented with Seidman's familiar imagination and clarity. In addition, it argues persuasively for a pragmatic approach to difference troubles in theory and politics.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521590434
ISBN 13 
9780521590433
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
322

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