ABSTRACT
According to one reading of Baudrillard, feminism, as an opposition to patriarchy, would be precisely the ‘inoculation’ upon which masculinism thrives and continues to sustain itself. If this is the case, then perhaps the most radical thing possible for feminism would be for women to adopt the position of the Object via seduction, thereby seducing masculinism and the patriarchal male towards such an ‘objectaP condition. Clearly, for many feminists, such a suggestion is nothing less than outrageous, yet it does serve the purpose of indicating how austere and severe the question of postmodernism might be for feminism. For many, the theory and practice of feminism has been a means precisely of extending the successes and critiquing the failures of a Marxist discourse of liberation; and to this extent, feminism has opened various ways out of the deadlock of much Marxist thinking - just as postmodernism has also done. But feminism and postmodernism are not always easy allies, as the essays gathered here show.
