Nothing to declare : identity, shame, and the lower middle class -- New cultural theories of modernity -- The invention of everyday life -- Judith Krantz, author of The cultural logics of late capitalism -- The doxa of difference -- Fin de siècle, fin de sexe : transsexuality and the death of history -- Images of the intellectual : from philosophy to cultural studies -- Why feminism doesn't need an aesthetic (and why it can't ignore aesthetics) -- Feminism, postmodernism, and the critique of modernity.