--- product_id: 140746384 title: "Living a Feminist Life" brand: "duke university press books" price: "£20.08" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 20 category: "Digital Ebook Purchas" url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/140746384-living-a-feminist-life store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # Living a Feminist Life **Brand:** duke university press books **Price:** £20.08 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Living a Feminist Life by duke university press books - **How much does it cost?** £20.08 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/140746384-living-a-feminist-life) ## Best For - duke university press books enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted duke university press books brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Living a Feminist Life - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51qv51HnBAL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Embracing the Killjoy *by W***C on Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2018* As I listened to my feminist colleague espouse the daily challenges involved living true to her values and convictions as she encounters moments of thinly veiled misogyny and sexism, I found myself reaching into my briefcase and slowly sliding my well ear-marked copy of Living a Feminist Life across the table and uttering: “You need to read this book”.Every person who feels isolated in the righteous and often lonely fight for equality would benefit from Ahmed’s book. The volume combines deeply personal anecdotal (and often painful) stories of feeling like an outsider, even while surrounded by her closest family members, with easily digestible feminist theory. She ends the book with two practical survival guides to endure the onslaught of injustices feminists of conscience are sure to encounter as they navigate through patriarchal society.Raised in a conservative Muslim family, Ahmed delicately and heartbreakingly details her strained relationship with a father who clearly loves her as a daughter, yet is disdainful of her non-compliant willfulness. Ahmed views willfulness as consciousness brimming at the surface: questioning and challenging social mores that prescribe happiness in a predetermined set of criteria. “Being estranged from one’s own life can be how a world reappears, becoming odd…to become conscious of possibility can involve mourning for its loss” (Ahmed, page 47).Once feminist consciousness is turned on, evidence of injustice seems to rear its head at every turn, leaving the feminist killjoy feeling like an alien in a world full of people who seem incapable of breathing the same air she does. Ahmed states that feminist killjoys become a problem when we describe a problem: (Ahmed, pg 38, 39, 62): Through feminism you make sense of wrongs; you realize that you are not in the wrong. But when you speak of something as being wrong, you end up being in the wrong all over again. The sensation of being wronged can thus end up magnified; you feel wronged by being perceived as in the wrong just for pointing out something is wrong. It is frustrating….Feministconsciousness can be thought of as consciousness of violence and power concealed under the languages of civility, happiness, and love, rather than simply or only consciousness of gender as a site of restriction of possibility.Ahmed also takes aim at diversity and inclusion initiatives instituted at organizations. She sees them as simply a ruse – a way of looking like something is being done, when really nothing is being done. It is a doubly violent exercise of giving the appearance of doing something, but really doing nothing, and exploiting an oppressed person as the lead in the futile exercise. She utilizes a metaphor of a wall that she encountered in diversity work that keeps the master’s residence standing. Her metaphor conjures memories of feminist Audre Lorde’s contention that you cannot tear down the master’s house with the master’s tools.Ahmed’s description of feminist snap, that point when the pressure of the cumulative injustices ruptures one’s ability to be complacent any longer, is a powerful metaphor. She describes it as the basis for feminist revolt and the gathering of an army willing to stand for feminist hope. It is why, when I hear my feminist sister lost in a sea of despair I slide Living a Feminist Life to my comrade and suggest: “You need to read this book”. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Accessible to read for new readers of Ahmed (if Queer Phenomenology had your head spinning like mine was) *by A***A on Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2018* This book put together so many thoughts, feelings, emotions, and experiences about life as a "feminist killjoy." From expertly crafting narratives that you can feel yourself around "diversity" work and becoming the problem when you bring up a problem. Accessible to read for new readers of Ahmed (if Queer Phenomenology had your head spinning like mine was). My self care and activism is so much better off from reading this tet ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is a wonderful book and taught me a lot about the struggles ... *by L***E on Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2018* This is a wonderful book and taught me a lot about the struggles for women, especially those who have largely been marginalized due to ethnicity or sexual orientation. 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