Felski, Rita
Felski, Rita
Bio Sketch
Rita Felski is a literary and cultural theorist (University of Virginia) whose work spans feminist theory, modernism/postmodernism, and everyday life. She is a key figure in Geoffrey's the everyday research area (alongside de Certeau, Lefebvre, Colebrook), known for bridging literary and sociological approaches to the quotidian.
Key Works
- The Gender of Modernity (1995).
- Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture (2000) — includes "The Invention of Everyday Life" (repetition, home, habit).
Key Concepts
Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:
Relevance to Geoffrey's Research
Felski matters to Geoffrey's the everyday area: her reconstruction of the everyday via repetition, home, and habit — and her feminist critique of the valorization of nomadism and subversion — offers a counterpoint to both Lefebvre's ambivalent reading and cultural studies' celebration of resistance, relevant to how Geoffrey reads mundane dwelling and ordinary users.
Source Support
Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:
- The Invention of Everyday Life
- The Practice of Everyday Life
- Complicity and Collusion in the Mediation of Everyday Life (Silverstone 2002)
- Everyday life in the real world (Maycroft 2007) — Maycroft's empirical approach to everyday life echoes Felski's concern with the "reality" of everyday experience over philosophical abstraction; Maycroft's "resistance to everyday life" complicates Felski's "making peace with the everyday."