ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some of the challenges that Jurgen Habermas presents to various versions of postmodernism and feminism through his defense of modernity as an unfinished emancipatory project. It takes up some of the challenges that postmodernism has developed in opposition to some of the central assumptions of modernism and explains how various feminist discourses reinscribe some of the central assumptions of modernism and postmodernism as part of a broader cultural practice and political project. In effect, postmodern feminism rejects the binary opposition between modernism and postmodernism in favor of a broader theoretical attempt to situate both discourses critically within a feminist political project. Postmodern feminism provides a grounded politics that employs the most progressive aspects of modernism and postmodernism. That is, critical educators need to provide a sense of how the most critical elements of modernism, postmodernism, and postmodern feminism might be taken up by teachers and educators so as to create a postmodern pedagogical practice.
