Introduction / Steven Seidman 1rn1. The postmodern condition / Jean-Francois Lyotard 27rn2. Genealogy and social criticism / Michel, 1926-1984 Foucault 39rn3. Method, social science, and social hope / Richard Rorty 46rn4. The new cultural politics of difference / Cornel West 65rn5. A manifesto for cyborgs: Science, technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980s / Donna Haraway 82rn6. The end of sociological theory / Steven Seidman 119rn7. The theoretical subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American feminism / Norma Alarcon 140rn8. Contingent foundations: Feminism and the question of 'postmodernism' / Judith Butler 153rn9. Subjectivity in social analysis / Renato Rosaldo 171rn10. Is there a postmodern sociology? / Zygmunt Bauman 187rn11. On ethnographic allegory / James Clifford 205rn12. Rhetoric, textuality, and the postmodern turn in sociological theory / Richard Harvey Brown 229rn13. Social criticism without philosophy: An encounter between feminism and postmodernism / Nancy Fraser, Linda Nicholson 242rn14. Post-structuralism and sociology / Charles C. Lemert 265rn15. Deconstructing equality-versus-difference: Or, the uses of poststructuralist theory for feminism / Joan W. Scott 282rn16. The plague of discourse: Politics, literary theory, and AIDS / Lee Edelman 299