{"product_id":"methodology-of-the-oppressed","title":"Methodology of the Oppressed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new approach to feminist thought that challenges current critical theories.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms \"U.S. Third World feminism\" into the narrative in a way that thoroughly alters our perspective on contemporary culture and subjectivity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Sandoval has identified is a language, a rhetoric of resistance to postmodern cultural conditions. U.S. liberation movements of the post-World War II era generated specific modes of oppositional consciousness. Out of these emerged a new activity of consciousness and language Sandoval calls the \"methodology of the oppressed.\" This methodology-born of the strains of the cultural and identity struggles that currently mark global exchange-holds out the possibility of a new historical moment, a new citizen-subject, and a new form of alliance consciousness and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUtilizing semiotics and U.S. Third World feminist criticism, Sandoval demonstrates how this methodology mobilizes love as a category of critical analysis. Rendering this approach in all its specifics,\u003ci\u003e Methodology of the Oppressed\u003c\/i\u003e gives rise to an alternative mode of criticism opening new perspectives on any theoretical, literary, aesthetic, social movement, or psychic expression.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54250600956248,"sku":"9780816627370","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780816627370.jpg?v=1780108213","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/methodology-of-the-oppressed","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}