Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour an serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.

How Like a Leaf: An Interview with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve (ed. Psychology Press, 2000) - ISBN: 9780415924030