This book collects the most important statements of the postmodern theory, including the classics essays of authors such as Lyotard, Haraway, Foucault, and Rorty.

1. The postmodern condition Jean-Francois Lyotard; 2. Genealogy and social criticism Michel Foucault; 3. Method, social science, and social hope Richard Rorty; 4. The new cultural politics of difference Cornel West; 5. A manifesto for Cyborgs: science, technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980s Donna Haraway; 6. The end of sociological theory Steven Seidman; 7. The theoretical subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American feminism Norma Alarcon; 8. Contingent foundations: feminism and the question of postmodernism Judith Butler; 9. Subjectivity and social analysis Renato Rosaldo; 10. Is there a postmodern sociology? Zygmunt Bauman; 11. On ethnographic allegory James Clifford; 12. Rhetoric, textuality, and the postmodern turn in sociological theory Richard Brown; 13. Social criticism without philosophy: an encounter between feminism and postmodernism Nancy Fraser and Linda Nicholson; 14. Post-structuralism and sociology Charles Lemert; 15. Deconstructing equality-versus-difference: or, the uses of poststructuralist theory for feminism Joan Scott; 16. The plague of discourse: politics, literary theory, and AIDS Lee Edelman.