The word "postmodernism" means many things to many people. To some it describes a fad or a personal style, to others, a theory of society, a philosophy of human significance (or its lack thereof), a historical epoch, a phase of capitalist...

In 1959, C. Wright Mills speculated that "the Modern Age is being succeeded by a post-modern period" in which assumptions about the coherence of the Enlightenment values of scientific rationality and political freedom were being...

‘Postmodernism’ is used to name at least three things of interest to the critical study of men and masculinities: (1) a new global context of contention in the wake of the 1960s (often distinguished as ‘postmodernity’); (2) the...

The term post-modernism (and post-modern) has been used variably to refer to what are interpreted as major changes in the way the contemporary world can and ought to be represented. The term, introduced from architecture and art criticism which then...

Modernism and Postmodernism Modern philosophy is construed as beginning sometime in the Renaissance. A philosophy that seeks new foundations for knowledge was offered as an alternative to that provided by the ancient philosophers. Modern philosophy was...

A movement in the arts and humanities known as post-modernism gained a foothold in Western society in the 1980s and 1990s. The term was coined originally by architects in the early 1970s to designate an architectural style that aimed to break away from...

Postmodernism The term "postmodernism" first emerged in the 1950s to describe new architectural and literary movements that opposed commonly accepted canons regarding the unity and coherence of narratives and artistic styles....

The development of postmodernism in anthropology since the early 1980s has provided a major focus of debate and commentary. While few anthropologists as such have been regarded as seminal in the larger postmodernist field, anthropology in general has...

Post-modernism, often called by its detractors ‘PoMo’, is one of the widest-ranging intellectual fashions seen in the last 150 years. Like many of its predecessors this self-consciously radical generalized social commentary and theory...

Bulbeck, C. (1998) Re-Orienting Western Feminisms, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Butler, J. (2004) Undoing Gender, New York and London: Routledge. Enloe, C. (2004) The Curious Feminist, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Gardiner,...

Any of several artistic movements since about the 1960s that have challenged the philosophy and practices of modern arts or literature. In literature this has amounted to a reaction against an ordered view of the world and therefore against fixed ideas...

The theory that suggests society has moved beyond modernity and has entered a new phase that questions the Enlightenment philosophies, such as rationalism and science. It is often criticized for being relativist. See also late...

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