Contemporary Social Theory

7
Feminism and Post-feminist Theory
186
Theorizing patriarchy: 1970s feminisms
188
Juliet Mitchell on femininity and sexual difference
191
Dinnerstein: societal nurturing arrangements
195
Chodorow: 
The Reproduction of Mothering
197
Benjamin: the analysis of love
202
Julia Kristeva: semiotic subversions
204
Kristeva on motherhood and maternal ethics
209
Appraisal of Kristeva
211
Irigary: the feminine imaginary
213
Judith Butler: scripts of gender performance
215
Appraisal of Butler
219
Queer theory
220
Summary points
227
Further questions
228
Further reading
228
Internet links
230
8
Postmodernity
231
Deleuze and Guattarri: postmodernity as schizoid desire
233
The postmodern condition: Lyotard
237
Baudrillard: postmodernity as simulated media culture
241
Baudrillard’s non-event: the Gulf War did not take place
246
Jameson: postmodernity as global capitalist transformations
248
Bauman: postmodernity as modernity minus illusions
253
c o n t e n t s
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Postmodern ethics: the global moral gap
257
Criticisms of postmodernism
262
Summary points
265
Further questions
266
Further reading
266
Internet links
268
9
Networks, Risks, Liquids
270
Manuel Castells: 
The Network Society
273
Criticisms of Castells
280
Global networks and fluids: Urry on mobilities
282
Ulrich Beck: organized lives in a world of risk
283
Beck on reflexive modernization
287
Individualization
290
Criticisms of Beck
291
Living with liquidization: Bauman
294
Bauman on liquid lives, loves and fears
299
Criticisms of Bauman
301
Summary points
305
Further questions
306
Further reading
306
Internet links
307