Tactical Readings: Feminist Postmodernism in the Novels of Kathy Acker and Angela Carter

Tactical Readings analyzes the work of Kathy Acker and Angela Carter and argues for putting feminist practices of reading at the center of a revitalized concept of postmodernism. In Acker’s and Carter’s rereading of even those images decried by some feminists as most compromised and patriarchal Pitchford also sees a way for feminism to move beyond its internal divisions over sexuality and obscenity.