...Feminism, she continues, like other postmodernisms, is thoroughly "deconstructive" in that it seeks to "distance us from and make us skeptical about beliefs...as legitimation for contemporary Western culture." Feminist theory echoes postmodernist discourses in that it points to and deconstructs those categories...

...Sullivan 1979; 1987). This in turn reflects recent postmodern concerns with "deconstructing" notions of "truth, knowledge, power, the self, and language that...legitimation for contemporary Western culture" (Flax 1987:624). Within anthropology, postmodernism and deconstruction (along with critical reflexivity,...

...privilege certain conceptions of knowledge and certain conceptions of human agency. As Jane Flax writes: Postmodern discourses are all 'deconstructive' in...legitimation for contemporary Western culture. (Flax 1987: 624) This is a view shared by many feminists (Ferguson 1987). Thus Nancy Hartsock argues that a reconceptualization...

...Flax, in her commentary on postmodern thinking, states that all postmodern discourses are basically deconstructive 'in that they seek to distance us from...self, and language that are often taken for granted and serve as legitimation for contemporary Western culture' (1990: 41). Deconstruction theory is rooted...

...through the various species of postmodernism, which also share, as Jane Flax suggests, a skepticism "about beliefs concerning truth, knowledge, power,...as legitimation for contemporary Western culture."' From the perspective of those, particularly feminists, committed to social and political change, the...

...living. From the postmodernist position, discourses are always saturated in power. Jane Flax says, "Postmodern discourses are all 'deconstructive' in that they seek to distance us from and make us sceptical about beliefs concerning truth, knowledge, power, the self, and language that are often taken...

...distance us from and make us 'skeptical about the ideas concerning truth, knowledge, power, history, self and language that are often taken for granted within and serve as legitimations for contemporary Western culture'.7 Post-modernists revel in denying privilege (the architect,...

...feminist standpoint position (eg Haug, 1987; Hooks, 1989; Senour, 1977). knowledge, power, history, self, and language that are often taken for granted within and serve as legitimations for contemporary Western culture" (Flax, 1990, p. 29). In this sense postmodernist feminism...

...satisfactory answers to commonly agreed upon questions within feminist (or other forms of social) theory. Postmodern discourses are all "deconstructive" in...as legitimation for contemporary Western culture. Postmodern philosophers seek to throw into radical doubt beliefs still prevalent in (especially American)...

...distance us from and make us skeptical about the ideas concerning truth, knowledge, power, history, self, and language that are often taken for granted within and serve as legitimations for contemporary Western culture.4 This therapeutic interest leads these theorists to...