{"product_id":"nothing-matters-a-feminist-critique-of-postmodernism","title":"Nothing Mat(T)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism","description":"\"An eloquent work. Somer Brodribb not only gives us a feminist critique of postmodernism with its masculinist predeterminants in existentialism, its Freudian footholdings and its Sadean values, but in the very form and texture of the critique, she literally creates new discourse in feminist theory. Brodribb has transcended not only postmodernism but its requirement that we speak in its voice even when criticizing it. She creates a language that is at once poetic and powerfully analytical. Her insistent and compelling radical critique refuses essentialism--from both masculinist thinkers and their women followers. She demystifies postmodernism to reveal that it and its antecedents represent yet another mundane version of patriarchal politics. Ultimately Brodribb returns us to feminist theory with the message that we must refuse to be derivative and continue to originate theory and politics from the condition of women under male domination.\"\n--Kathleen Barry, author of Female Sexual Slavery\nAn iconoclastic work brilliantly undertaken, demystifying a French literary mode in which the sexism of the content is hidden behind the worship of its own discourse . . . While she will certainly cause a lot of trouble in 'le petit monde parisien,' Nothing Mat(t)ers has magnificently shown that \"postmodernism is the cultural capital of late patriarchy. It is the art of self- display, the conceit of masculine self and the science of reproductive and genetic engineering in an ecstatic Nietzschean cycle of statis.\"\n--Andree Michel\nNothing Mat(t)ers encapsulates in its title the valuelessness of the current academic fad of postmodernism. Somer Brodribb has written a brave and witty book demolishing the gods and goddesses of postmodernism by deconstructing their method and de-centering their subjects and, in the process, has deconstructed deconstructionism and decentered decentering! This is a long-awaited and much-needed book from a tough- minded, embodied, and unflinching scholar.\"\n--Janice Raymond\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1875559078\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1875559078.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Brodribb, Somer\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43110434439229,"sku":"BVV.1875559078.G","price":11.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1875559078-0.jpg?v=1776288861","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/nothing-matters-a-feminist-critique-of-postmodernism","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}