Contingent foundations: Feminism and the question of "postmodernism"

Feminists Theorize the Political

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3-21

  Butler, Judith ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85068717942     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203723999     Document Type: Chapter

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