NOTHING MAT(T)ERS: A FEMINIST CRITIQUE OF POSTMODERNISM.
If you are a feminist working or studying in an academic setting, and find postmodernism and poststructuralism unavoidable objects in your environment, reading Nothing Mat(t)ers will be a satisfying experience. Omnipresent yet mysterious, these European imports resist critique. It's gauche to name them, impossible to understand them without a background in Freud, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Levi-Strauss, and in spite of this last point, they are widely believed to make a radical departure from the Englishtenment thinking that feminists also critique. It seems we are to be intimidated, overwhelmed, or absorbed. Somer …