Susan Hekman believes we are witnessing an intellectual sea change. Themain features of this change are found in dichotomies between language and reality, discourse and materiality. Hekman proposes that it is possible to find a moreintimate connection between these pairs, one that does not privilege one over theother. By grounding her work in feminist thought and employing analytic philosophy, scientific theory, and linguistic theory, Hekman shows how language and reality canbe understood as an indissoluble unit. In this broadly synthetic work, she offers anew interpretation of questions of science, modernism, postmodernism, and feminismso as to build knowledge of reality and extend how we deal with nature and ourincreasingly diverse experiences of it.