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Living a Feminist Life
- Narrated by: Larissa Gallagher
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
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Summary
In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work.
Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they critique - often by naming and calling attention to problems - and how feminists learn about worlds from their efforts to transform them.
Ahmed also provides her most sustained commentary on the figure of the feminist killjoy introduced in her earlier work while showing how feminists create inventive solutions - such as forming support systems - to survive the shattering experiences of facing the walls of racism and sexism.
The killjoy survival kit and killjoy manifesto, with which the book concludes, supply practical tools for how to live a feminist life, thereby strengthening the ties between the inventive creation of feminist theory and living a life that sustains it.
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- Ness
- 21-10-24
Bad narrating
It’s such a great book, but narrator did a terrible job. Through the monotony of narrators’ voice, mispronounciation of names and words shows indifference to the content
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- Mr. Simon Brewis
- 14-08-22
Best accessable book on feminist thought avaliable
Reminiscent of bell hooks, but more up to date. Probably the best feminist theory text, that anyone can read, currently available. Excellent for undergrads, or pop feminist readers wanting more of a challenge. Also great for seasoned feminist thinkers to sharpen the toolkit for dismantling 'the house'.
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- Imma j lopez
- 17-01-24
Snappy and courageous
Thank you, and thank me for finding you, revelatory or maybe remembatory could be a better word, I found myself so many times in your words. Pleasure to read. Painful at times and hilarious at times finding myself rolling my eyes many of those times. I have ended up calling myself, a kill-joy, with all the consequences. Right now starting to write my own kill-joy manifesto.
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- A. Donkor
- 19-01-21
FANTASTIC FEMINIST FODDER
This is a wonderful book and a easy to listen to. What an inspiration x
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- katy
- 04-05-18
Don't be put off but,
if this is the only way you can access this important book then don't let the reviews of the narrator put you off. It is possible to get the gist of Ahmed's important and challenging work from this reading.
That said this is one of the poorest examples of a narrator showing utter indifference to the content of a text.Whilst not quite as bad as those computer style monotone readings, there are endless errors. Mis-reading 'feminist' over and over as 'feminine' is ridiculous, utterly changing the message of the book (what IS a feminine protest?) but slightly funny I suppose once you realise. By far the worst is the constant mispronunciation of the author's name. In narrating a book concerned with words, women, racism, you think you might bother to get the author's name right. However it seems 'Ahmed' is far too complicated to pronounce so our fearless narrator plumps - repeatedly- for 'Akmed'.
All that said this ia a brave and important book which deserved far better from audible, and now you are forewarned about the narrator's errors don't let it put you off accessing it via audiobook if you cannot access it in print.
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