Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism

by Sara Ahmed (Editor), Jane Kilby, Celia Lury

A thorough reassessment of feminism's place in contemporary life. With contributions from some of the most important current feminist thinkers, it takes feminism in fresh directions, mapping new territory and suggesting alternative possibilities.

Genres: Feminism

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First published October 5, 2000

About the author

Sara Ahmed is an independent queer feminist scholar of colour. Her work is concerned with how power is experienced and challenged in everyday life and institutional cultures. Her most recent book is No is Not a Lonely Utterance: The Art and Activism of Complaining which came out with Allen Lane in September 2025, and which is a companion text to The Feminist Killjoy Handbook which was published by Allen Lane in 2023. Previous books include Complaint! (2021), What's The Use? On the Uses of Use (2019), Living a Feminist Life (2017), Willful Subjects (2014), On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (2012), The Promise of Happiness (2010) and Queer Phenomenology: Orientations Objects, Others all published by Duke University Press. She blogs at feministkilljoys.com and has a newsletter https://feministkilljoys.substack.com/.

Reviews

[Ty · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't agree with all of her points but I definitely love her analogies and all of it is very good food for thought that continues to challenge me in very positive ways.