Living A Feminist Life

Abstract

Publisher: Durham: Duke University PressPrice: $26.95Number of Pages: 312 pp. paperback ISBN: 9780822363194A feminist and queer of colour, Sarah Ahmed lectured in Women's Studies at Lancaster University and was later appointed by Goldsmiths College, University of London. During 2016, however, Ahmed would resign from her post at Goldsmiths-in protest against institutional discrimination against sexual harassment. Coming from an interdisciplinary background, Ahmed has studied philosophy, women's studies, and cultural studies. Within all of these fields, she finds women of colour's writing most empowering and sees it as her genealogy (p. 15). This is the approach that she adopts in this book. Living a Feminist Life is her most recent work that has developed out of her previous series of books (Willful Subjects