55 pages 1 hour read

Sara Ahmed

Living a Feminist Life

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

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Essay Topics

1.

Ahmed opens her Introduction with a rhetorical question: “what do you hear when you hear the word feminism?” (1). How did/would you answer the question at the beginning of the book? Has your answer changed at all by the end of the book? Why or why not?

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What does the phrase “feminism is homework” mean, and how does it relate to living a feminist life? What does that homework look like? What, in your view, might that feminist life look like, in terms of both theory and practice?

3.

What is the path of happiness? How does it function as a form of force or pressure, and how does it relate to the theme of power dynamics? In your view, what would “feminist” happiness look like?

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