Part 3, Introduction

The third part is about the consequences of living as a feminist, and the strategies one might use to deal with those consequences. Ahmed focuses on the concept of <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Index of Terms" href="https://www.supersummary.com/living-a-feminist-life/index-of-terms/#501841">fragility</a> and how this fragility leads to what she calls the “feminist snap.” Finally, she suggests one feminist tradition, lesbian <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Index of Terms" href="https://www.supersummary.com/living-a-feminist-life/index-of-terms/#501837">feminism</a>, as the best answer and way to deal with the consequences of feminism in “willful and creative” ways (162).

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Part 3, Chapter 7

Ahmed states that as one comes up against the many walls in life, they risk being shattered by the experience, and that leads to <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Index of Terms" href="https://www.supersummary.com/living-a-feminist-life/index-of-terms/#501841">fragility</a> as “the wear and tear of living a feminist life” (163). This feeling of being worn down can happen gradually, so that one is not even aware of it until you reach a point “when it is too much” (164). Ahmed argues this fragility is a kind of “thread, a connection, a fragile connection between those things deemed breakable” (164) and examines this from the <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Literary Device" href="https://www.supersummary.com/perspective/">perspective</a> of different scales—fragile things, relationships, shelters, and bodies. Ahmed uses two examples from writer George Eliot to examine fragile objects. First in Silas Marner, the main character’s beloved water pot breaks.

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