Feminification of Theory

Feminification of Theory Dipankar Gupta The feminification of theory draws attention to the fact that the postmodern insistence on reading everything as text finds its fullest efflorescence in the domain of feminist studies. Regardless of gender, the postmodern credo encourages a partisanship towards contemporary feminist scholarship and a concomitant downgrading of both theory and conceptual and disciplinary rigour THE postmodernist denigration of theory and of disciplinary grids as