Postmodernism and Political Change: Issues for Feminist Theory

This article builds on and may be read in conjunction with Rethinking Modernism: Minority vs. Majority Theories, Cultural Critique, no. 7 (Fall 1987): 187206, and Foucault on Power A Theory for Women? in The Gender of Power, ed. Monique Leyanaar et al. (Leiden, Netherlands: Vakgroep Vrouwenstudies, 1987), reprinted in FeminismlPostmodernism, ed. Linda Nicholson (New York: Routledge, 1989), 157-75. I would also like to thank those who responded to the paper at the conference on Marxism Today in December 1989 and groups at York University, the University of Chicago, and UCLA. The problems that remain are, of course, my own.