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Book SynopsisAn intertwining of the philosophy of art and psychoanalytic theory. This book presents a theoretical exploration of shared affect and emergent expression, across the thresholds of identity and memory. The author replaces the phallic structure with a dimension of emergence, where objects, images, and meanings are glimpsed in their incipiency.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Capacity Contract brings much-needed insights to both political theory and disability studies. Its original analysis calls for the fuller recognition of the contributions of the intellectually disabled and their social inclusion as citizens."—Kristin Bumiller, Amherst College"Most political theorists would agree with Rawls that citizens need to possess cognitive capacities ‘within some normal range,’ but Stacy Clifford Simplican argues that such a ‘capacity contract’ is wrong. She provokes us to disrupt these norms."—Joan Tronto, University of Minnesota"A very interesting read."—Catholic Medical Quarterly"Simplican presents a rich analysis of the role of capacity in classic political philosophy and offers a significant contribution to the field. "—Disability Studies Quarterly"The Capacity Contract should be required reading not just for political theorists but for everybody conscientious about being alerted to unconscious patterns of bias and exclusion in their everyday lives and practices."—The Review of PoliticsTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Anxiety, Democracy, and Disability1. Locke’s Capacity Contract and the Construction of Idiocy2. Manufacturing Anxiety: The Medicalization of Mental Defect3. The Disavowal of Disability in Contemporary Contract Theory4. Rethinking Political Agency: Arendt and the Self-Advocacy Movement5. Self-Advocates and Allies Becoming EmpoweredAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisEmblematic of the tensions that white southern women of the era experienced between independent creative expression and traditional familial and community expectations.Trade Review“Sara Mayfield leaves the reader unsure what is fact and what is fiction, and our experience ultimately mirrors hers in provocative ways. She peeks at us alluringly through Horne's lucid prose—as an author, an inventor, and maybe even as a government agent.”—Kathryn McKee, author of Reading Reconstruction: Sherwood Bonner and the Literature of the Post–Civil War South "Montgomery, Alabama, in the early Twentieth Century was an enigma where powerful white men defended the final redoubt of male privilege and the South's romantic past while a generation of women chiseled away the foundation on which male hegemony rested. Sara Mayfield, Tallulah Bankhead, Sara Haardt (Mencken), and Zelda Sayre ((Fitzgerald) lived near each other growing up in Montgomery, graduated to notable careers in theater or as writers who defied conservative social conventions and charted their own lives. Odyssey of a Wandering Mind is an excellent starting place in pursuit of what it meant to strong-minded Alabama women a century ago to be a woman. And the dangers to which that independence exposed them."—Wayne Flynt, author of Keeping the Faith: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives "With Odyssey of a Wandering Mind, Jennifer Horne brings out of obscurity an Alabama talent often regarded as a supporting player to her more famous friends, Sara Haardt Mencken and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. Sara Mayfield was so much more than a biographer of the Southern belles of her generation who chafed against being known merely as “the wife of” their literary-lion husbands. By turns a novelist, playwright, journalist, and an inventor, Mayfield was first and foremost a survivor who led a remarkable life throughout a near century of culture upheaval. Horne does a phenomenal job of humanizing a figure who for decades battled her demons to find her greatest success in her mid-sixties, long after Haardt and Sayre has passed prematurely." —Kirk Curnutt, co-editor with Sara A. Kosiba of The Romance of Regionalism in the Work of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald: The South Side of Paradise

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Alexander Weheliye's Habeas Viscus is the latest iteration in the current reinvigoration of black diasporic thought.... Habeas Viscus feeds into this furiously complex joyful noise." -- Dhanveer Singh Brar * New Formations *“It is a book that offers us a meditation for imagining a world where the categorization and organization that produces race, and racialist distinction and hierarchy — where human life — might be organized otherwise than it is.” -- Ashon Crawley * Los Angeles Review of Books *“Habeas Viscus is a work with vast implications for the rereading of canonical works of biopolitics, as well as the reframing of biopolitics from the ‘other’ side. The arguments and techniques provided in the book will not only be of interest to scholars of race, feminism, and biopolitics, but also to those engaged with disability studies, affect theory, and even animal/ity studies. For this last group in particular, Habeas Viscus will be a haunting incantation for reconsidering the meanings and boundaries of human and nonhuman life, where ‘flesh’ is proved liminal, belonging neither to the realm of Man nor beast.” -- Megan H. Glick * Hypatia *“Weheliye’s dual theoretical-political aim of clarifying the operating force of racializing assemblages as well as voicing the necessity and potentiality of alternate political futures is an urgently needed intervention in conversations about the human and humanity. Not satisfied with critiquing the perils of our contemporary condition, he orients us towards new futures. In doing so, Weheliye’s Habeus Viscus offers intellectual victuals not only for the project of black studies, but for all those who study non-white being-in-the-world and are relegated to the conceptual ghetto of ethnographic specificity.” -- Aditi Surie von Czechowski * Borderlines (CSSAAME blog) *“Habeas Viscus is a long-awaited contribution in the slowly awakening critical debates on the place of the concepts of race and racialization within the discourses on biopolitics and bare life underpinning many scholarly debates concerned with political violence, neoliberal capitalism and converging systems of oppression in Western critical theory. More importantly, coming from the standpoint of black studiesand drawing largely from black feminist thought, this critical account of poststructuralist take on the category of the human, promises not only to redraw the blueprints of this prominent theoretical formation, but also to deterritorialise minority discourses, so far relegated to academic peripheries.” -- Marianna Szczygielska * Parallax *"In the age of the Anthropocene, Habeas Viscus helps us hear, feel, and imagine humanities that persist beyond Man’s catastrophic horizons." -- Annie Menzel * Theory & Event *"Weheliye’s book is a major philosophical accomplishment. It expertly dispatches with the fantasy of the liberal subject by making racialization the central problem of the human. It broadens the agenda and intellectual reach of black studies into the realm of humanity. In these endeavors, it makes gender and black feminism central to these investigations, and it brings us back to the all-important question of the body and how to think with and through it. That Weheliye stays attentive to all of these questions while articulating damning critiques about biopolitics, bare life, and racism, is an important feat to behold." -- Amber Jamilla Musser * philoSOPHIA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Now 1 1. Blackness: The Human 17 2. Bare Life: The Flesh 33 3. Assemblages: Articulation 46 4. Racism: Biopolitics 53 5. Law: Property 74 6. Depravation: Pornotropes 89 7. Deprivation: Hunger 113 8. Freedom: Soon 125 Notes 139 Bibliography 181 Index 205

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Book SynopsisMoving away from a simplified food politics that is largely land based, Elspeth Probyn looks at food politics from an ocean-centric perspective by tracing the global movement of several marine species to explore the complex and entangled relationship between humans and fish.Trade Review"Elspeth Probyn wants to eat the ocean. I want to eat her book. It is one of the most profound works I have read on the sea, and the issues with which it presents us, in the 21st century, not least because it dares to digress and move into territories that other writers and academics have hitherto neglected." -- Philip Hoare * Times Higher Education *"Eloquently written, Probyn's vivid detail brings us along her journeys following (and eating many) oysters, swimming with tuna, covertly eating endangered bluefin tuna, and tracking the history of herring quines and women's roles in fishing. . . . I learned so much about the state of our oceans, where our seafood comes from, the danger in always choosing tuna and salmon, and the role of aquaculture (which provides more than half of all seafood consumed by humans!), but most importantly, I was encouraged to think differently about what 'sustainability' means, which I think is so important as a person who works in this sphere." -- Lisa Heinze * Sustainability with Style *"From a policy perspective, where queer and poststructuralist feminisms are completely absent from the framework, Probyn’s intervention is a much needed updating of sustainability discourses and food politics. As such, her account of herring wives and fish women is an important intervention into an environmental politics that either ignores women completely or that constructs them as virtuous consumers or vulnerable victims (105)." -- Reese Simpkins * Angelaki *"Eating the Ocean is fascinating in its emphasis on the interconnections and mutual influences among humans, ocean creatures and the ocean itself." -- Carol J. Pierce Colfer * Agriculture and Human Values *"This slender but ambitious volume offers an excellent overview and discussion of contemporary social science and humanities literature and theorising about the sea and human relations to it.... This is a useful contribution and a significantly better approach than some social science literature about the sea that uses it as a metaphor without proper material engagement." -- Penny McCall Howard * The Australian Journal of Anthropology *"This book is like a breath of fresh sea air, cool, briny, and gently laced with the scent of dead things.... In my experience, students love to learn about seafood. And this book provides a unique, and exciting overview of the topic. Meanwhile, it makes meaningful change to the politics of human-fish relations, and of gender in the social sciences more generally. Readers may also find the book an accessible introduction to fisheries research in the humanities, and to more-than-human ethologies in the social sciences." -- L. G. Brown * FoodAnthropology *"Eating the Ocean is a timely and masterfully judged intervention into debates in food studies." -- Laura Colebrooke * Cultural Geographies *"Consistently thought-provoking. . . . Displaying a sophisticated grasp of recent developments in marine biology and drawing on a wide range of perspectives encompassing constructivism, postmodernism, cultural studies, and eco-feminism, Elspeth Probyn develops arguments that reveal the limitations of many simple prescriptions for managing human uses of marine resources and demonstrates the rewards to be derived from diving deeper into the complex forces that govern interactions between a variety of human actors and the physical and biological components of marine systems." -- Oran Young * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"This is not a book to be skimmed. Readers will need to work their way through the various connections Probyn draws and think through how they feel about her assumptions. But they will be well rewarded for the time and thinking they invest. . . . Eating the Ocean offers a provocative perspective on how we consume the ocean and how we can do better." -- Patricia M. Clay * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Relating Fish and Humans 1 1. An Oceanic Habitus 23 2. Following Oysters, Relating Taste 49 3. Swimming with Tuna 77 4. Mermaids, Fishwives, and Herring Quines: Gendering the More-than-Human 101 5. Little Fish: Eating with the Ocean 129 Conclusion. Reeling it In 159 Notes 165 References 169 Index 183

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Book SynopsisIn Spill poet, independent scholar, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of poetry inspired by Black feminist literary critic Hortense Spillers depicting scenes of fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism.Trade Review"Gumbs’s writing has luscious urgency and rhythmic drive, which will make it of interest beyond its titular audience." -- Barbara Hoffert * Library Journal *"Spill is not just a poetic collection where art meets criticism or where art is criticism. Instead, it is an intricately woven, polyvocal, ever-expansive map that details and gives rise to new and old black feminisms instructing us how to live and move with(in) these proliferating epistemologies." -- Sasha Panaram * New Black Man (In Exile) *"Inspired by the work of black feminist intellectual Hortense Spillers, Gumbs’ collection of poems appear as a series of powerful scenarios. Reading the volume is akin to being a member of a theatre audience. The fourth wall is peeled away and one is suddenly witness to heartbreaking, inspiring and insightful scenes depicting fugitive black women and girls – unsung and celebrated 'sheroes' – seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism." -- Thomasi McDonald * News & Observer *"Spill is poetry that invites the reader to imagine these poems weren't written- they was lived, they were felt, and in some deep sense, re-membered. In other words, this book happened in somebody's body, a body committed to Black Feminist ways of knowing and feeling in the world.... By embracing and applying these through the form of the parable, Spill speaks to the radical, spiritual power that belongs to those 'black women who made and broke narrative.'" -- Lara Mimosa Montes * Poetry Project Review *"Gumbs’s poetry takes up the detritus of the everyday that surrounds theory — the affective social and political worlds in which black feminist theorists write — and bends it, splits it, like a prism breaking a beam of light into a rainbow." -- Maria Velazquez * Cascadia Subduction Zone *"Gumbs seamlessly moves between historic reference, inherited memories, and a series of visions or a journal of dreams-the result is bigger than text itself. Her writing blurs the lines between past, present, and future. The book communes with ancestral knowledge while offering conjectures of what could be, reminding us that Black women have always seen what comes next, past the edges of what seemed or seems possible.... Spill is first and foremost a love offering to all Black women, but all readers who bear witness will leave its pages knowing of radical imagined possibilities and the difficult path laid before us toward elsewhere: 'our work here is not done.'" -- Zaina Alsous * Bitch *"This book is a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. Like Audre Lorde, Gumbs writes for the complexity of her vision." -- Jaki Shelton Green * NBC News (NBCBlk) *"Blending my love of Black queer feminist authors with genre bending and analytically complex poetry, Gumbs’s work inflicted pleasantly unfamiliar feelings upon me that I cannot 'claim to have invented.' Spill transformed me from a reluctant bystander of theory and poetry into a willing and enthused participant…. Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Spill is an offering for all seeking an unpredictable and experimental journey of Black feminist artistic expression and self-discovery." -- Eden Sena Kokui Segbefia * Scalawag *"Gumbs not only speaks to the spiritual, bodily and otherworldly experience of black women, she allows readers to imagine new possibilities for poetry as a portal for understanding and deepening feminist theory." * Triangle Tribune *"This book is alive. The more I read it, the more gingerly I found myself handling its pages, despite the strength and determination of the women depicted within. . . . The scenes read as half song, half sermon (though intimately pitched), and taken as a whole create a richly textured chorus through which an exhilarating and deeply intelligent life force surges." -- Kim Adrian * The Rumpus *"[G]round-breaking. . . . Gumbs’s trilogy embraces the lyric beauty in the acts of naming, remembering, and finding one’s way back to the source. . . . Reading Gumbs’s books feels like reading an archive that will someday, who knows maybe even someday soon, usher in an era of radical transformation." -- Kathryn Nuernberger * West Branch *Table of ContentsA Note xi How She Knew 1 How She Spelled It 17 How She Left 31 How She Survived until Then 45 What She Did Not Say 61 What He Was Thinking 75 Where She Ended Up 91 The Witnesses the Wayward the Waiting 111 How We Know 125 The Way 141 Acknowledgments 151 Notes 153 Bibliography 161

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Book SynopsisThis volume recasts the concepts of vulnerability and resistance, moving beyond the assumptions that they are opposites. Focusing on recent events and cultural practices in Turkey, Palestine, France, and the former Yugoslavia, the essays connect vulnerability to resistance by showing how women and other minorities use their own vulnerability as resistance.Trade Review"Interdisciplinary, relevant and rich in content, this collection of essays succeeds in thwarting the vulnerability/resistance dichotomy, and offers us plenty of feminist-inspired reimagined political-philosophical situated vocabularies for the here and now." -- Evelien Geerts * Angelaki *"This is an important volume for those interested in grammars of resistance, protest cultures, and the mobilization of grief as a route into collective political subjectivity. Its crosscultural range enables us to see overlaps in forms of embodied resistance even when these latter are specific to a milieu and political condition." -- Pramod K Nayar * Journal of International and Global Studies *"A timely and deeply insightful contribution that may be of great interest to those engaged in critical international politics.... One of the greatest strengths of the volume lies in the scope of the essays. Throughout the volume understandings and uses of vulnerability change and morph, refusing any dogmatic definition. The range of engagements that the anthology encompasses manages to tie together disparate concepts and contexts around a simple, yet profoundly provocative, premise: that a theoretical embrace of vulnerability can take us to a new understanding of resistance and the resisting subject." -- Jennifer Hobbs * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"For anyone interested in Butler’s work, this volume will be very valuable. Indeed, as a whole, Vulnerability in Resistance is an extremely provocative and valuable contribution to global feminist studies." -- Ladelle McWhorter * Contemporary Political Theory *"Highly recommendable for anyone interested at questions related to social movements, performativity, body politics, precarity, and resistance of the political violence." -- Mikko Joronen * Space and Polity *"A brilliant experiment that brings together a variety of heterogenous reflections." -- Marco Checchi * Ephemera *"The richness of the accounts offered in the book . . . creates a distinctive space at the intersections of feminist, cultural, social and political theory." -- Claudia Lapping * European Journal of Women's Studies *"Offers diverse and insightful opportunities for radical politics today. . . . A valuable contribution to feminist geography." -- Angharad Butler-Rees * Gender, Place & Culture *Table of ContentsIllustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction / Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti, and Leticia Sabsay 1 1. Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance / Judith Butler 12 2. Risking Oneself and One's Identity: Agonism Revisited / Zeynep Gambetti 28 3. Bouncing Back: Vulnerability and Resistance in Times of Resilience / Sarah Bracke 52 4. Vulnerable Times / Marianne Hirsch 76 5. Barricades: Resources and Residues of Resistance / Başak Ertür 97 6. Dreams and the Political Subject / Elena Loizidou 122 7. Vulnerable Corporealities and Precarious Belongings in Mona Hatoum's Art / Elena Tzelepis 146 8. Precarious Politics: The Activism of "Bodies That Count" (Aligning with Those That Don't) in Palestine's Colonial Frontier / Rema Hammami 167 9. When Antigone Is a Man: Feminist "Trouble" in the Late Colony / Nükhet Sirman 191 10. Violence against Women in Turkey: Vulnerability, Sexuality, and Eros / Meltem Ahiska 211 11. Bare Subjectivity: Faces, Veils, and Masks in the Contemporary Allegories of Western Citizenship / Elsa Dorlin 236 12. Nonsovereign Agonism (or, Beyond Affirmation versus Vulnerability) / Athena Athanasiou 256 13. Permeable Bodies: Vulnerability, Affective Powers, Hegemony / Leticia Sabsay 278 Bibliography 303 Contributors 325 Index 329

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, the rise of research-creation—a scholarly activity that considers art practices as research methods in their own right—has emerged from the organic convergences of the arts and interdisciplinary humanities, and it has been fostered by universities wishing to enhance their public profiles. In How to Make Art at the End of the World Natalie Loveless draws on diverse perspectives—from feminist science studies to psychoanalytic theory, as well as her own experience advising undergraduate and graduate students—to argue for research-creation as both a means to produce innovative scholarship and a way to transform pedagogy and research within the contemporary neoliberal university. Championing experimental, artistically driven methods of teaching, researching, and publication, research-creation works to render daily life in the academy more pedagogically, politically, and affectively sustainable, as well as more responsive to issues of social anTrade Review“In this beautifully argued, eminently readable book, stories are the center of attention. Morphing art and knowledge in the neoliberal university situates thinking and pedagogy. Curiosity-driven transdisciplinary practice is both motor and object of analysis. Natalie Loveless asks how stories craft worlds in politically and sensually attuned modes. I treasure the extensive knowledge of modernist performance art and art activism broadly, as well as rich semiotic and psychoanalytic readings of stories and performance. This book is itself a loving act of research-creation.” -- Donna J. Haraway, author of * Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene *“In her evocative book How to Make Art at the End of the World, Natalie Loveless has captured the most urgent and far-reaching question concerning our cultural environment, that is, how to inhabit it in an era of geopolitical uncertainty. This is a daunting task; her ambitious answer, grounded in examples of alternative critical pedagogies, aims to reduce the toxic colonial footprint in arts education by developing a sustainable research-creation model based on differential multiplicities. And that gives us hope.” -- Mary Kelly, Judge Widney Professor, USC Roski School of Art and Design“In this succinct book, Natalie Loveless explores the claim that art-making practices are well situated to challenge and change existing knowledge-making practices in the contemporary research university…. Her primary audience, researchers in art and fine art, will find the manifesto gives a sophisticated form to an emerging desire—an eros and 'attunement'—to not just study the world, but to have an impact on it.” -- David Theodore * RACAR * “A necessary read for artists and scholars who are drawn to, or already working with, artistically driven methods of teaching and researching.... Through the text, readers will gain a deeper understanding of how research-creation, beyond doing artistic research, is about creatively intervening in feminist and anti-racist research practices.” -- Jo Billows and Stephanie Springgay * Journal for Artistic Research *

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Book SynopsisIn A Regarded Self Kaiama L. Glover champions unruly female protagonists who adamantly refuse the constraints of coercive communities. Reading novels by Marie Chauvet, Maryse Condé, René Depestre, Marlon James, and Jamaica Kincaid, Glover shows how these authors'' women characters enact practices of freedom that privilege the self in ways unmediated and unrestricted by group affiliation. The women of these texts offend, disturb, and reorder the world around them. They challenge the primacy of the community over the individual and propose provocative forms of subjecthood. Highlighting the style and the stakes of these women''s radical ethics of self-regard, Glover reframes Caribbean literary studies in ways that critique the moral principles, politicized perspectives, and established critical frameworks that so often govern contemporary reading practices. She asks readers and critics of postcolonial literature to question their own gendered expectations and to embraTrade Review“Kaiama L. Glover's magnificently written A Regarded Self recovers voices long relegated to the margins. It is also a new and thrilling kind of criticism, uncompromising in its resistance to generalities about Afro-Atlantic and Caribbean Studies. Seamlessly joining literary reflection and oral history, it unveils a new understanding of the aesthetic and the political. For once returned to their significant histories in the Caribbean, these magisterial terms gain force and momentum. Glover's unparalleled analyses of Maryse Condé, René Depestre, and Jamaica Kincaid make readers rethink the nature of mastery and subjection, as well as the false divide between sacred and profane.” -- Colin Dayan, author of * Haiti, History, and the Gods *“In this rigorous and elegantly executed book, Kaiama L. Glover performs the disorderly womanness that she theorizes by offering feminist challenges to established Caribbean scholarly practices, tropes, and readings that reinforce masculinist valorizations of ‘community.’ Offering innovative, unconventional perspectives on well-known literary texts, A Regarded Self stands to be an important work.” -- Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, author of * Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders *"Readers should be able to work their ways out of the boxes that define texts and approach them closely from less controlled zones. As such, Glover’s A Regarded Self is a timely and much-needed book, in these times when readers may feel compelled to pay allegiance to the labels and theories in vogue before actually regarding the source book itself." -- Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika * Public Books *“In her groundbreaking new book, A Regarded Self, Kaiama Glover proposes an innovative theoretical framework for reappraising the role of Caribbean women in literature and literary criticism.... This book will appeal to both specialist and general readers, but it is particularly compelling in its enactment of a new way of approaching literature from the region.” -- Bonnie Thomas * L'Esprit Créateur *“Kaiama L. Glover’s A Regarded Self is a thought-provoking and innovative contribution to Caribbean literary criticism as it subversively engages with Caribbean ideological idiosyncrasies and self-reflexively unsettles established academic positions. . . . Its combination of textual and extra-textual analysis provides a comprehensive insight into anglophone and francophone Caribbean literature, culture and scholarship.” -- Isabella Kalte * KULT Online *“A Regarded Self is about disorderly women who endlessly unsettle any given structure. . . . Glover invites us to think through what it would mean to endlessly unsettle ourselves and everything around us.” -- Marietta Kosma * Ideas *“Reading across some of the linguistic barriers within the Caribbean, [Glover] offers a text essential to scholars of Caribbean studies and which may be used to facilitate conversations across the islands (and scholarly departments). Always reading against the grain, always illuminating (the costs of ) our own readerly proclivities, [A Regarded Self] does not disappoint.” -- Jocelyn Sutton Franklin * H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews *“Glover’s writing style remains fun and engaging throughout, her thoughts informative, and her thesis well-plotted. . . . ARegarded Self delivers a compelling analysis of Caribbean women writers and their traditionally unlikeable heroines, devoting itself to intersectionality and avoiding reiterations of previous scholarship.” -- Kieran Leeds * European Journal of American Studies *"A Regarded Self therefore serves as an invaluable example of a study in self-disorientation, in being nimbly reactive and empathetic against the ossifying tendencies of many identity-based politics, while simultaneously opening up a more inclusive discursive space for selfhood that refuses to exclude any desires, no matter how selfish they may seem." -- Jake J. McGuirk * Ariel *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Self-Love | Tituba 39 2. Self-Possession | Hadriana 68 3. Self-Defense | Lotus 111 4. Self-Preservation | Xuela 146 5. Self-Regard | Lilith 188 Epilogue 219 Notes 225 Works Cited 249 Index

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Book SynopsisReexamining feminist sexual politics since the 1970s—the rivalries and the remarkable alliances Since the historic #MeToo movement materialized in 2017, innumerable survivors of sexual assault and misconduct have broken their silence and called out their abusers publicly—from well-known celebrities to politicians and high-profile business leaders. Not surprisingly, conservatives quickly opposed this new movement, but the fact that “sex positive” progressives joined in the opposition was unexpected and seldom discussed. Why We Lost the Sex Wars explores how a narrow set of political prospects for resisting the use of sex as a tool of domination came to be embraced across this broad swath of the political spectrum in the contemporary United States.To better understand today’s multilayered sexual politics, Lorna N. Bracewell offers a revisionist history of the “sex wars” of the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s. Rather than focusing on what divided antipornography and sex-radical feminists, Bracewell highlights significant points of contact and overlap between these rivals, particularly the trenchant challenges they offered to the narrow and ambivalent sexual politics of postwar liberalism. Bracewell leverages this recovered history to illuminate in fresh and provocative ways a range of current phenomena, including recent controversies over trigger warnings, the unimaginative politics of “sex-positive” feminism, and the rise of carceral feminism. By foregrounding the role played by liberal concepts such as expressive freedom and the public/private divide as well as the long-neglected contributions of Black and “Third World” feminists, Bracewell upends much of what we think we know about the sex wars and makes a strong case for the continued relevance of these debates today. Why We Lost the Sex Wars provides a history of feminist thinking on topics such as pornography, commercial sex work, LGBTQ+ identities, and BDSM, as well as discussions of such notable figures as Patrick Califia, Alan Dershowitz, Andrea Dworkin, Elena Kagan, Audre Lorde, Catharine MacKinnon, Cherríe Moraga, Robin Morgan, Gayle Rubin, Nadine Strossen, Cass Sunstein, and Alice Walker.Trade Review"Why We Lost the Sex Wars is a fascinating read. It provides a gripping social history of both feminist movement and of feminist political theory, including archival research into interviews and writings that current feminist ‘legends’ did as graduate students. This is intertwined with incisive and creative theoretical analysis of the arguments offered in courts, conferences, and publications. Lorna N. Bracewell shows that the so-called ‘sex wars’ were not warlike, nor a clear-cut duality, but rather multiple and complex, and that these debates and arguments still influence feminism and feminist theory today. In Bracewell’s account of the central role that feminists of color played, which is often overlooked, is particularly insightful and important. This book is essential reading for all of us interested in the history of late twentieth-century feminism and in understanding how we got to where we are today."—Nancy Hirschmann, author of Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory"Lorna N. Bracewell’s careful treatment of the feminist sexuality debates of the 1980s demonstrates how their framing in terms of liberal philosophies of the eighteenth century contributed to a reductive misunderstanding of key questions about freedom and sexuality that continue to resurface decades later. This is a timely and important work."—Judith Grant, Ohio University"Thoroughly researched, yet immensely readable, Why We Lost the Sex Wars provides a clear, illuminating, and utterly engaging account of antipornography feminism and sex radical feminists’ consequential encounters with liberalism. It details how liberalism remade both and, in that remaking, helped to foreclose feminist imaginations regarding damage and reparation and worked to lead us to our carceral present. It, rightly, highlights the oft-overlooked interventions of Black and ‘Third World’ feminists who critiqued the ‘monism’ of white antipornography and whose analysis helped to clarify that pornography could do far worse than simply objectify women. The book skillfully and seamlessly combines historical accounts and close textual reading. Among the latter method, the author's convincing illustration of the impact of antipornography feminism on one of liberalism's most revered feminist critics, Carole Pateman, stands out, as it demonstrates how the feminists, who we too often understand to have lost their fight ultimately, helped to shape her understanding of male power. An important contribution to feminist political theory."—Shatema Threadcraft, author of Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic "A timely revisionist scholarly history certain to spark debate."—Kirkus Reviews "Why We Lost the Sex Wars is incredibly detailed, well-researched, and well-organized."—Kara Reviews "An illuminating retelling of this period of American feminist history."—The New Yorker "A thorough, thoughtful account of the multiple and evolving constellations of perspectives and interactions that composed the so-called Sex Wars."—Gender & Society Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Rethinking the Sex Wars1. “Pornography Is the Theory. Rape Is the Practice”: The Antipornography Feminist Critique of Liberalism2. Free Speech, Criminal Acts: Liberal Appropriations of Antipornography Feminism3. Ambivalent Liberals, Sex Radical Feminists4. Third World Feminism and the Sex WarsConclusion: The Liberal Roots of Carceral FeminismAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisSita, a revered princess of Mithila, chose acceptance and grace in her life filled with sacrifice. Her deep love for Rama and infinite patience reflect her divine yet human nature. Through Bhanumathi's narration, we see the world through Sita's eyes, feeling her emotions and understanding the true strength of a woman.

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Book SynopsisIn this tenth anniversary expanded edition of Jasbir K. Puar’s pathbreaking book—which features a new preface by Tavia Nyong’o and a new postscript by the author—Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism.Trade Review“A profound and challenging book that should be read widely and repeatedly, Puar’s latest work contains revelations about contemporary power that offer avenues for transforming academic knowledge and our own subjectivities.” -- Liz Philipose * Signs *“Terrorist Assemblages is brilliant, hyperkinetic, and perhaps, most of all, ferocious. It is ferocious in its analysis and critique not only of networks of control over and unrelenting superpanopticism of queer, racialized bodies but also of queer, feminist, and critical race theory and activism.” -- Victor Román Mendoza * Journal of Asian American Studies *“Few points of identification, cherished political practices, or progressive claims are left unimplicated in Puar's analysis of the war on terror. . . . Terrorist Assemblages exemplifies the most difficult and yet most important work that critical theory can offer its readers and practitioners: a thoroughgoing interrogation of the inequalities, oppressions and injustices that shape the present, which refuses to leave its authors' and readers' own investments outside its critiques.” -- Elisabeth Anker * Theory & Event *“Puar provides compelling and convincing examples of the unwitting effects of homonormative discourse.” -- Celia Jameson * Parallax *“Jasbir Puar’s Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times is a powerful, energetic, and highly insightful read. The book absorbs a surprising amount of intellectual, political, and emotional labour. . . . [R]eaders can have that rare and golden experience of emerging from these pages transformed. Indeed, the demands that Puar places on her reader are substantial, but the rewards well worth it. Cutting, courageous, and prescient, Terrorist Assemblages is well worth the read.” -- Deborah Cowen * Antipode *"It is her ability to traverse the theoretical terrains between theories of affect and nonrepresentation as well as discourse and identity that exemplifies how these seemingly opposed poststructuralisms do, in fact, enrich each other and make Terrorist Assemblages a critically important work." -- Lauren L. Martin * Annals of the AAG *"Terrorist Assemblages is a challenging and urgent book that pushes studies of the sexual beyond their comfort zone. . . . The chapters offer a series of bold and creative readings that aim to rewrite emergent orthodoxies within both critical and not so critical discourses on the 'war on terror.' Where such discourses perpetuate separation and distance, Puar strikingly demonstrates connectivity and coincidence." -- Natalie Oswin * Social & Cultural Geography *"Terrorist Assemblages will appeal to scholars who wish to push the limits of interdisciplinary thinking and writing. In both form and content, this book energetically experiments with different theoretical frameworks and disparate sources to produce fresh insights on a variety of issues. For these and many other reasons, Terrorist Assemblages is bound to become a mainstay in graduate courses across a range of disciplines, and will certainly be cited as a key text in scholarship that examines how discourses surrounding sexuality are mobilized in the service of war, nation-building, and imperialism." -- Sean McCarthy * E3W Review of Books *"Terrorist Assemblages is a rich and textured read that lays bare the perniciousness of liberal politics while asking for the hard work it takes to build radical solidarity." -- Rupal Oza * Social & Cultural Geography *". . . I think it only appropriate that we succumb to this project’s velocity, that we explore Puar’s virtuosic, methodological interventions, while acknowledging the captivating intellectual performance at the heart of Terrorist Assemblages. . . . Puar importantly provides a salient and scathing political critique of nationalism in its hetero, homo, religious and racialized incarnations." -- Karen Tongson * Women & Performance *“Puar’s project brings what we might describe as a racial politics of tolerance to the production of queers. . . . In doing so, she challenges those of us engaged in human rights theory and advocacy for sexual minorities to a serious consideration of what it is that enables such advocacy to be effective in the first instance, and what the effectiveness of such campaigns means for the re-positioning of LGBT subjects in mainstream political economies. . . . Her examination of terrorist discourses foregrounds a dimension of Foucault’s characterization of contemporary power that has been largely ignored by theorists who take up this framework for speaking of power: namely, the instrumentality of death—that is, the extent to which the protection and management of some life/lives is contingent on letting others die.” -- Margaret Denike * Feminist Legal Studies * "Since the publication of Puar’s book, the presence of Islamophobic and openly gay politicians like Pim Fortuyn and Geert Wilders—who had seemed exceptional in the early 2000s—has become rather the norm. . . . Puar’s book has been extremely important in the effort to make sense of these phenomena." -- Sara R. Farris * Social Text *Table of ContentsForeword / Tavia Nyong'o xi Preface: Tactics, Strategies, Logistics xvii Introduction: Homonationalism and Biopolitics 1 1. The Sexuality of Terrorism 37 2. Abu Ghraib and U.S. Sexual Exceptionalism 79 3. Intimate Control, Infinite Direction: Rereading the Lawrence Case 114 4. "The Turban is Not a Hat": Queer Diaspora and the Practices for Profiling 166 Conclusion: Queer Times, Terrorist Assemblages 203 Postscript: Homonationalism in Trump Times 223 Acknowledgments 243 Notes 249 References 307 Index 342

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Book SynopsisDo you think that Jesus only surrounded himself with men? Think again. Inspired by their popular Channel 4 documentary Jesus' Female Disciples, historians Helen Bond and Joan Taylor explore the way in which Mary the mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, Mary, Martha and a whole host of other women - named and unnamed - have been remembered by posterity, noting how many were silenced, tamed or slurred by innuendo - though occasionally they get to slay dragons. Women Remembered looks at the representation of these women in art, and the way they have been remembered in inscriptions and archaeology. And of course they dig into the biblical texts, exposing misogyny and offering alternative and unexpected ways of appreciating these women as disciples, apostles, teachers, messengers and church-founders. At a time when both the church and society more widely are still grappling with the full inclusion and equality of women, this is a must-read for anyone interested in the historical and cultural origins of Christianity.Trade ReviewDrawing on fifty years of feminist scholarship, they now expand the story to include most of the women mentioned in Christian scripture. Importantly, they show that the movement that came to be called Christianity was fluid and unstable for its first three centuries, attracting a diversity of women whose leadership was excluded as roles became formalized. * Times Literary Supplement *Having excavated biblical texts, they expose deep-rooted misogyny and offer alternative accounts of women as apostles, teachers, messengers, and church founders. * Irish Examiner *The authors piece together the evidence that has survived about the named and unnamed women. They demonstrate the richness and range of female activity in the first-century churches... readable and engaging, opening up the complex and fluid state of women in the Early Church * The Church Times *This book nowhere seems to step beyond the limits of what can be demonstrated by actual history and real evidence, some of it of very recent discovery by scholars around the world, and much of it quite unknown to many of us in the pews... a book which can be read with the hope of learning what is really thought today by the vanguard of scholarship...They show what women were said to have done or must have done, and what an equal role they played in the early days of the new faith. Of course we know that in our heart of hearts, for we can see in our churches every week from the role of parish administrator down to altar girls ...This is a continually interesting book, full of (to me) new information.' * Irish Catholic *Another argument made to good effect by the likeable authors, in this accessible and pleasurable addition to the largely impenetrable academic literature on the subject, is that the gospels as they appear in our Bibles were subject to heavy tweaking and editing over the century or two after they were written until a definitive version was agreed * The Daily Telegraph *there is plenty of evidence that women were not only involved in Jesus' movement, but were integral to it. * All About History Magazine *It's empowering, inspiring and important to learn about the key roles women played in early Christianity, which sadly almost disappeared from historical records, as men took control of the church. * Cat Lewis, Executive Producer, Songs of Praise *This book nowhere seems to step beyond the limits of what can be demonstrated by actual history and real evidence.. a book which can be read with the hope of learning what is really thought today by the vanguard of scholarship... a continually interesting book. * The Irish Catholic *As Joan Taylor and Helen Bond explore in their new book, Women Remembered: Jesus' Female Disciples, there is plenty of evidence that women were not only involved in Jesus' movement, but were integral to it. * All About History *The authors piece together the evidence that has survived about the named and unnamed women. The demonstrate the richness and range of female activity in the first-century churches... readable and engaging, opening up the complex and fluid state of women in the Early Church. * The Church Times *Having excavated biblical texts, they expose deep-rooted misogyny and offer alternative accounts of women as apostles, teachers, messengers, and church founders. * The Irish Examiner *

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Book SynopsisWhen Athena was a young girl in the 60s, she lost her hearing to a childhood fever but was misdiagnosed as "profoundly retarded" and institutionalized for thirty years. Now she''s out of the institution, awkward and bookish, and learning to integrate with mainstream society where nothing works quite like she thinks it should. Athena researches her past, trying to understand why she was institutionalized in the first place and why the people looking after her made such a huge mistake. At the same time, she tries to find a way to live with the man who was her lover in the institution, uncovering all sorts of surprises along the way.

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Book SynopsisMakes key excerpts from Daly's work accessible to readers who are seeking to access the essence of her thought in a single volume. Outrageous, humorous, inflammatory, Amazonian, intellectual, provocative, controversial, and a discoverer of Feminist word-magic, Mary Daly's influence on Second Wave feminism was enormous. She burst through constraints to articulate new ways of being female and alive. This comprehensive reader offers a vital introduction to the core of Daly's work and the complexities secreted away in the pages of her books. Her major theoriesBio-philia, Be-ing as Verb, and the life force within wordsand major controversiesrelating to race, transgender identity, and separatismare all covered, and the editors have provided introductions to each selection for context. The text has been crafted to be accessible to a broad readership, without diluting Daly's witty but complicated vocabulary. Begun in collaboration with Daly while she was still alive, and completed after her Trade Review"In sum, this anthology is an intellectual gift to feminists everywhere. It reminds us to be fearlessly feminist, to uphold our diverse feminist intellectual traditions, and to collaborate with each other in ways that encourage feminist resistance to the technocratic, necrophilic, and neo-fascist threats, laws, and practice harming those performing as women." * Reading Religion *"She was a great trained philosopher, theologian, and poet, and she used all of those tools to demolish patriarchy -- or any idea that domination is natural -- in its most defended place, which is religion." -- Gloria Steinem * Boston Globe, January 2010 *""Brings us face to face with the radical, groundbreaking work of a feminist philosopher whose expectations for women were only exceeded by her commitment to them. I still vividly remember my first encounter with Mary Daly's work, the exhilaration of her wordsmithery, the sense of freedom and clarity that came from having the evils of the world named and condemned, and the ensuing commitment sparked to do something with these insights - to work to dismantle structures of injustice at the root. We need these kinds of transformative encounters today and this book is up to the task... This painstakingly crafted reader invites our engagement (new or continuing) with one of the sharpest thinkers of our time, challenging us to leap into Mary Daly's originally brilliant work and to transcend beyond it." " -- Xochitl Alvizo,California State University, Northridge"Tide-like, social and cultural movements flow and ebb—as do the reputations of their founders. This reader puts Daly on display in all of her life-long radical transformations, personal, theological, philosophical, rhetorical." * The Pomegranate *

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Book SynopsisIn Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. One history of will is a history of attempts to eliminate willfulness from the will. Delving into philosophical and literary texts, Ahmed examines the relation between will and willfulness, ill will and good will, and the particular will and general will. Her reflections shed light on how will is embedded in a political and cultural landscape, how it is embodied, and how will and willfulness are socially mediated. Attentive to the wayward, the wandering, and the deviant, Ahmed considers how willfulness is taken up by those who have received its charge. Grounded in feminist, queer, and antiracist politics, her sui generis analysis of the willful subject, the figure who wills wrongly or wills too much, suggests that willfulness might be required to recover from the attempt at its elimination.Trade Review"Willful Subjects is a rich, complex, wondrous archive of willfulness. The array of texts, voices, problems and approaches is both painstaking and playful, validating and challenging." -- Heather Rakes * xcphilosophy blog *“In Willful Subjects, cultural theorist Sara Ahmed provides a history of willfulness. Her study reveals some significant and fascinating aspects of this history, and points to areas of future scholarly enquiry. . . . The book offers a comprehensive and intellectually rigorous treatise on a topic that is more complex than it may initially appear. This text also provides further evidence of Ahmed’s scholarly nous. “ -- Jay Daniel Thompson * M/C Reviews *“Ahmed has produced an erudite archive of willfulness, tracing the ideas of the will and willfulness through Western thought since Augustine. Admonitory fairy tales and George Eliot’s novels serve as articulations of philosophy. Ahmed engages in a queer reading of willfulness, a reading that does not presume that willfulness is negative. . . . Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.” -- J. L. Croissant * Choice *“Ahmed effectively imitates the twisting together of thought, affect, memory, and insight, drawing connections between things that may appear disparate, and noticing disjunctions in what was previously knit together. … [B]y drawing widely and richly on works of philosophy, literature, film, and everydayness, Ahmed shows how in social life, one affect or action may be judged to be quite another. This allows us to attend not only to behaviors and orientations, but to how those are read by others, to why and in what ways certain actions and affects are felt and interpreted as problematic, as willful.” -- Anna Mudde * Hypatia *“Ahmed’s insights, as always, are both intellectually fertile and provocative; Willful Subjects will not disappoint.” -- Margrit Shildrick * Signs *“Willful Subjects is essential reading for those working in feminism, disability studies, queer theory, critical race studies, and/or phenomenology who reject the notion that a new world or a better one is simply tied to asserting the will to make it so. This is a book for those willing to slow down to queer the will and contemplate what we have been up to, willingly or not.” -- Tanya Titchkosky * Contemporary Women's Writing *“Without being too idealistic, this book should be in the collection of every activist and organiser working to create a different world. The last chapter in particular offers much that can reinforce and reinvigorate the willful when feeling isolated and downbeat. Followers of Sara Ahmed’s work will not be disappointed with her latest offering.” -- Lizzy Willmington * Feminist Legal Studies *"This rousing text remains a valuable assessment of historical and contemporary ideas of will and willfulness and a far-reaching exploration of potential new perspectives on our identification and evaluation of the willful subject." -- Hannah Simpson * College Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: A Willfulness Archive 1 1. Willing Subjects 23 2. The Good Will 59 3. The General Will 97 4. Willfulness as a Style of Politics 133 Conclusion: A Call to Arms 173 Notes 205 References 257 Index 277

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Book SynopsisIn Virgin Mary and the Neutrino, first published in French in 2006 and here appearing in English for the first time, Isabelle Stengers experiments with the possibility of addressing modern practices not as a block but through their divergence from each other. Drawing on thinkers ranging from John Dewey to Gilles Deleuze, she develops what she calls an ecology of practices into a capacious and heterogeneous perspective that is inclusive of cultural and political forces but not reducible to them. Stengers first advocates for an approach to sciences that would emphasize the way each should be situated by the kind of relationships demanded by what it attempts to address. This approach turns away from the disabling scientific/nonscientific binary-like the opposition between the neutrino and the Virgin Mary. An ecology of practices instead stimulates an appetite for thinking reality not as an arbiter but as what we can relate to through the generation of diverging concerns and obligations.Trade Review“Virgin Mary and the Neutrino is an extraordinary exploration of the events that have shaped the relationship between scientific practices and the public—the devastating effects of which we see today, especially in ecological situations. It is also the best introduction to Isabelle Stengers’s body of work, which is undoubtedly one of the most important and original in contemporary thought.” -- Didier Debaise, author of * Nature as Event: The Lure of the Possible *“Virgin Mary and the Neutrino counts among the contemporary classics written by one of the most creative and boldest philosophers of science. Isabelle Stengers’s proposals have the inevitable quality of inducing thought. This book will initiate anyone, no matter the stage of their career, who wants to become familiar with Stengers’s inspiring brilliance.” -- Marisol de la Cadena, author of * Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds *Table of ContentsTranslator’s Preface vii 1. Scientists in Trouble 1 2. The Force of Experimentation 17 3. Dissolving Amalgams 38 4. The Sciences in Their Milieus 61 5.Troubling the Public Order 86 Intermezzo: The Creation of Concepts 111 6. On the Same Plane? 119 7. We Are Not Alone in the World 144 8. Ecology of Practices 169 9. The Cosmopolitical Test 197 Appendix: The First Experimental Apparatus? 207 Notes 217 Bibliography 235 Index 241

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Book SynopsisWinner of the MLA''s 2016 Alan Bray Prize for Best Book in GLBTQ Studies How BDSM can be used as a metaphor for black female sexuality. The Color of Kink explores black women''s representations and performances within American pornography and BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism) from the 1930s to the present, revealing the ways in which they illustrate a complex and contradictory negotiation of pain, pleasure, and power for black women. Based on personal interviews conducted with pornography performers, producers, and professional dominatrices, visual and textual analysis, and extensive archival research, Ariane Cruz reveals BDSM and pornography as critical sites from which to rethink the formative links between Black female sexuality and violence. She explores how violence becomes not just a vehicle of pleasure but also a mode of accessing and contesting power. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, criticTrade ReviewThe Color of Kink breaks entirely new ground in the study of pornography and sexual cultures. Prioritizing the depathologization of black female sexuality and kink cultural practices, this book is a refreshing breakthrough in black feminist and queer theories of sex. Ariane Cruz offers usable theories that unleash the imagination and lubricate the way we think about black sexual politics. -- Mireille Miller-Young,author of A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in PornographyAn exciting contribution to sexuality studies and a much-needed corrective to how we think about BDSM. With beautiful and sharp analysis, Ariane Cruz draws from a dazzling array of sources to parse out the pleasures of abjection that make BDSM an apt metaphor for thinking through black female sexuality. A wonderful, provocative book. -- Amber Jamilla Musser,author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism

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Book SynopsisContains essays that feature feminist social theory and female body experience. This book discusses female movement, pregnancy, clothing, and the breasted body.

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Book SynopsisLily O’Farrell started drawing cartoons as a way of making sense of the everyday sexism she encountered as a young woman, and her Instagram feed has now grown to over 225,000 followers. In Kyle Theory, Lily addresses the pressing issues of the day through hilarious and relatable cartoons, from #MeToo and the patriarchy, to racism, internet culture and how to deal with trolls. Feminism is for everybody, and so is this book.Trade ReviewGRL Talk with Lily O’Farrell: On Getting To Know Incels, Her New Book & Why Empathy Is Her Superpower -- Chloe Laws * FGRLS CLUB *Why I Hide My Instagram Fame From My Dating App Profile -- Lily O'Farrell * ELLE UK *How a south London cartoonist went undercover with incels after being trolled online -- Matthew Dunne-Miles * London World *Cartoonist Lily O’Farrell on being trolled by incels: ‘I saw so many lost boys failed by the system’ -- Sophie Gallagher * The i *‘I was told feminism was just for people who went to university – it’s not’ -- Lily O'Farrell * Metro *

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Book SynopsisIn this powerful memoir Sheila Rowbotham looks back at her life as a participant in the women's liberation movement, left politics and the creative radical culture of a decade in which freedom and equality seemed possible. She reveals the tremendous efforts that were made to transform attitudes and feelings, as well as daily life.After addressing the first British Women's Liberation Conference at Ruskin College, Oxford in 1970, she went on to encourage night cleaners to unionise, to campaign for nurseries and abortion rights. She played an influential role in discussions of socialist feminist ideas and her books and journalism attracted an international readership.Written with generosity and humour Daring to Hope recreates grassroots networks, communal houses and squats, bringing alive a shared impetus to organise collectively and to love without jealousy or domination. It conveys the shifts occurring in politics and society through kernels of personal experience. The result is a book about liberation in the widest sense.Trade ReviewRowbotham is one of Britain's most important, if unshowy, feminist thinkers, and a key figure of the second wave. -- Melissa BennRowbotham is a leading feminist historian, and an unapologetic utopian -- Barbara Taylor * Guardian *Rowbotham has a marvelous gift for explication and an eye for the illuminating quotation. -- Elaine Showalter * Daily Telegraph *For Rowbotham, women's liberation was bound up with the dismantling of capitalism. But it also required-and here they departed from the Old Guard left-a rethinking of everyday patterns of life, relating to sex, love, housework, child rearing. -- Amia Srinivasan * New Yorker *Frank, powerful and vibrant. -- Rachel Collett * Tribune *Daring to Hope captures [Rowbotham's] youthful Utopian spirit. In it, she looks back at a decade of social change and recounts her experiences on the frontline of feminism. -- Rosa Silverman * Telegraph *Thoroughly engaging...I felt aligned with the frank and personal account of a young woman's life changing throughout the decade. -- Cathy Crabb * Northern Soul *A deeply compelling story about the making of our own times ... Rowbotham's humanity and craft shines through. -- Rana Mitter * BBC History Magazine’s Books of the Year 2021 *Rowbotham has wisdom - and wit. -- Yvonne Roberts * Observer *Rewarding. -- Clare Griffiths * Times Literary Supplement *[Daring to Hope] shows us what is possible, but that it is our job to go out and do it. -- Lydia Hughes * Red Pepper *A very enjoyable read, chronicling the ways in which the author engaged with the increasing challenges of the 1970s, while maintaining her hopes for an alternative future -- Marjorie Mayo * Morning Star Online *Exciting ... I read it over a weekend. -- Ross Bradshaw * The Spokesman Journal *Beautifully-measured account of a radical decade ... [Rowbotham] meets and makes friends with suffragettes, old communists and an ageless Dora Russell. This book is a valuable bridge between today's feminism and that of our forebears. -- Erica Smith * Peace News *

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Book SynopsisEnter the world of The Wild Mother—modern fairytale, bold biblical midrash, filled with the psychological depth and imaginative originality for which the author of The Maeve Chronicles is known. Elizabeth Cunningham''s classic feminist novel is as fresh and timeless today as when it was first released in 1993 to critical acclaim.Adam Underwood and Eva Brooke appear to be made for each other. Both are single parents. Both are academics, he a dazzling, enigmatic professor of Alchemy, she a humble but dedicated professor of Fairytales. Adam''s children, Ionia and Fred, share a latchkey after school with Eva''s precocious son, Jason. So why don''t Adam and Eva marry and live happily ever after?Eva can''t help wondering. Pathologically polite, she cannot bring herself to ask personal questions. She struggles not to find it strange that Adam has never so much as mentioned his children''s absent mother. Nor has Adam''s own mother-cum-housekeeper, the feisty, outspoken Ursula, ever uttered her name. Yet Eva glimpses the missing woman in ten-year-old Ionia''s haunted and haunting purple eyes and in Ionia''s drawings of a woman dancing on the crest of a hill, wild black hair spread out against the sky....Then one night, she returns: Lilith, the wild mother. The precarious status quo that Eva, Adam, and their families have achieved is shattered and their world is turned inside out or, more precisely, outside in.As wild breaks into their lives, Adam, obsessed with control, attempts to seal them all in a deadly trap. Now a crucial challenge confronts each one of them. Will these very human beings embrace their own wildness, risking all they value and understand? Or will they deny the freedom essential to Lilith''s nature--and their own.

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Book SynopsisThe Disney Princesses are a billion-dollar industry, known and loved by children across the globe. Robyn Muir provides an exploratory and holistic examination of this worldwide commercial and cultural phenomenon in its key representations: films, merchandising and marketing, and park experiences. Muir highlights the messages and images of femininity found within the Disney Princess canon and provides a rigorous and innovative methodology for analysing gender in media. Including an in-depth examination of each princess film from the last 83 years, the book provides a lens through which to view and understand how Disney Princesses have contributed to the depiction of femininity within popular culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Once Upon a Time Part 1: The Films Introducing the Film Analysis Framework 1. ‘Passive Dreamers’: The Beginning of the Disney Princess Phenomenon 2. ‘Lost Dreamers’: A Narrative Shift in the Princess Phenomenon 3. ‘Active Leaders’: Transgressive Princesses 4. ‘Sacrificing Dreamers’: A Regression in the Disney Princess Phenomenon 5. ‘Innovative Leaders’: A Progressive Era of Princesses Part 2: The Consumer Experiences 6. Playing Dress Up: Disney Princess Merchandising and Marketing 7. Playing in the Parks: Meeting ‘Real Life’ Princesses Conclusion: Happily Ever After?

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Book SynopsisSecond Wave feminism emerged as a struggle for women's liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements. But feminism's subsequent immersion in identity politics coincided with a decline in its utopian energies and the rise of neoliberalism. Now, foreseeing a revival in the movement, Fraser argues for a reinvigorated feminist radicalism able to address the global economic crisis.Trade ReviewNancy Fraser is among the very few thinkers in the tradition of critical theory who are capable of redeeming its legacy in the twenty-first century. -- Axel HonnethFor more than a decade, Nancy Fraser's thought has helped to reframe the agenda of critical theory. -- Etienne BalibarNancy Fraser challenges us to reactivate the audacious spirit of second-wave feminism. Analyzing an imaginary aimed at eradicating exploitation as well as subjugation, she offers a rousing conclusion as to how we might mobilize feminism's best energies against the perils of the neoliberal present. -- Lynne SegalNancy Fraser is one of the most creative social philosophers and critical theorists of her generation. -- Cornel WestFortunes of Feminism goes a long way in bringing together Fraser's substantial body of work on redistribution and recognition . Scholars interested in these themes will find this invaluable - or at least they should. -- Gwendolyn Beetham * THES *Fraser asks: What became of feminism in the wake of the neoliberal turn?.This book is required reading for feminists of all persuasions, and for a broader audience of left readers who want to get an overview of feminist political and philosophical debates.[Fraser] helps us think about the crucial question of where the women's movements in all of their varieties are going. Equally crucially, she helps us to ask what the relationship of such movements is, should be, or could be, to the left broadly defined, in an era in which war and austerity threaten all of the modest social justice gains of the Golden Age. -- Hester Eisenstein * Science and Society *

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Book SynopsisA landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2017.   The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, during, and after the Civil War. Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections of memoir, poetry, and essays on feminism, education, and the legacy of African American women writers. Many of these pieces engage with social movements like abolition, women’s suffrage, temperance, and civil rights, but the thematic center is the intellect and personal ambition of African American women. The diverse selection includes well-known writers like Sojourner Truth, Hannah Crafts,Trade Review“An extraordinary historical record.”—The New York Times Book Review“A rewarding history, and a reminder that the past is never a single narrative. It's a conversation with itself and with the present, well worth having.”—NPR

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Trade ReviewHilde Lindemann has updated her classic, readable text with timely new sections on currently pressing topics and concepts such as intersectionality, sexual harassment, and microaggressions. Lindemann continues to be one of the most engaging voices in feminist philosophy. This new edition is an ideal text for today's students of feminist philosophy, as well as an important contribution to the field in its own right. * Rebecca Kukla, Georgetown University *Outstanding! With characteristic clarity and insight Lindemann provides a valuable introduction to feminist ethics which is both rigorous and highly accessible. * Marya Schechtman, University of Chicago at Illinois *

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Book SynopsisA new, annotated reader, The Philosophy of Love and Sex, presents not only classic readings on love and sex from a diverse selection of philosophical perspectives, but also groundbreaking work in this rapidly changing field. Unlike existing readers, this comprehensive reader takes an interdisciplinary approach, choosing to include the voices of philosophers and philosophically minded thinkers from many different traditions, emphasizing not only the core writers who have defined the tradition, such as Plato and Stendhal, but work as recent as 2015 from feminists, transgendered persons, and others.Trade ReviewThe authors' willingness to step out of the philosophy bubble, while still offering a solid grounding in the stand bys of the field, is a welcome and, I think, needed change". * Ruth Tallman, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Barry University *This book offers undergraduate students the perfect balance between accessibility and intellectual rigor". * Nancy Williams, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wofford College *While [the authors'] include some critical classical readings, it is clear that they do not allow the weight of tradition to hold them back. Rather, it appears to me that this volume's construction is led by: the editors' experience with teaching students and what excites them, and what is most present and challenging in contemporary scholarship. * Sarah LaChance Adams, Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Wisconsin, Superior *Table of ContentsPart One: Love I. What is Love? 1. Thomas Merton, " 10. Clancy Martin, Love & Lies (selections) 11. Pope Francis, " 41. Catharine MacKinnon,

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this accessible, fascinating book, Rottenberg brilliantly captures the contemporary discursive politics of feminism. This text should be widely read. * D. J. Mattingly, San Diego State University, CHOICE *[Rottenberg] imbue[s] the analysis with acuity and wit... For a relatively short book, there's a lot in The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism. * Times Higher Education *Written with energetic sparkling prose and great erudition, Catherine Rottenberg displays a capacious knowledge of all the recent twists and turns in popular presentations of feminism. This is exactly the book we need now to grapple with a neoliberal rationality working to undermine feminist resistance to the worsening situation of the majority of women, while clearing pathways for a passionate return to dynamic feminist dialogue and creative, all-embracing feminist practices." - Lynne Segal, author of Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective JoyAn incisive critical intervention."-Rosalind Gill, author of Gender and the MediaCatherine Rottenberg has created an indispensable resource for those working in feminist theory, media studies, cultural studies and communication. Incisively critiquing a new, highly visible version of feminism, Rottenberg demonstrates through careful analysis and theoretical rigor that feminist messages of 'having it all' and 'leaning in' need to be carefully interrogated for who, and what, these messages and practices exclude. In a popular and media context where feminist messages abound and circulate with ease and alacrity, Rottenberg's voice is a crucial caution for all of us about the limitations of neoliberal feminism, as well as an urgent call to reclaim feminism as a social justice movement."-Sarah Banet-Weiser, Professor, author of Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular MisogynyThis is a remarkable and important book demonstrating with fine attention to detail the ways in which feminism has found itself appropriated and seemingly comfortably installed as part of the neoliberalization process to complement and indeed 'motivate' women in work and family life. In a wonderfully well-written account, Rottenberg unsettles the terms and conditions which underpin 'neoliberal feminism'."- Angela McRobbie, author of The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social ChangeWritten with energetic, sparkling prose and great erudition, Catherine Rottenberg displays a capacious knowledge of all the recent twists and turns in popular presentations of feminism. This is exactly the book we need now to grapple with a neoliberal rationality working to undermine feminist resistance to the worsening situation of the majority of women, while clearing pathways for a passionate return to dynamic feminist dialogue and creative, all-embracing feminist practices."- Lynne Segal, author of Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective JoyFor a relatively short book, there is a lot in The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism. Rottenberg turns her analytical eye to a range of cultural products, from the "have it all" privileged musings of Ivanka Trump to "mommy blogs" and popular TV shows such as CBS' The Good Wife and the Danish series Borgen, in which it becomes painfully apparent that in order to maintain the moral high ground in the future, "Brigitte will have to do a better job balancing family and work." It is an all too familiar pattern." - Emma Rees Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Introduction: Feminism in Neoliberal Times Chapter One: How Superwoman Became Balanced Chapter Two: The Neoliberal Feminist Chapter Three: Neoliberal Futurity and Generic Human Capital Chapter Four: Back from the Future: Turning to the "Here and Now" Chapter Five: Feminist Convergences Chapter Six: Reclaiming Feminism Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together carefully selected essays on feminism and film with a view to tracing major developments in theory, criticism, and practices of women and cinema from 1973 to the present day. It illuminates the powerful, if controversial, role feminist research has played in the emergence of Film Studies as a discipline during these years; reprinting influential 1970s pioneering essays tracing the ensuing debates and challenges to key theories that shaped this field in the next two decades. Kaplan details the Euro-American contexts within which feminist film theories and practices emerged and traces the changing influences of French, German, and American intellectual movements on feminist film research. As well as a wide-ranging introduction which sets the selection of essays in context, readers will find examples of social-role, psychoanalytic, structuralist, post-structuralist, gay and lesbian, postmodern and postcolonial feminist film criticism, prefaced by introductory notTable of ContentsPHASE ONE: PIONEERS AND CLASSICS: THE MODERNIST MODE ; PHASE TWO: CRITIQUES OF PHASE ONE THEORIES: NEW METHODS ; PHASE THREE: RACE, SEXUALITY, AND POSTMODERNISM IN FEMINIST THEORY ; PHASE FOUR: SPECTATORSHIP, ETHNICITY, AND MELODRAMA

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Book SynopsisContemporary theorists use the term social construction with the aim of exposing how what''s purportedly natural is often at least partly social and, more specifically, how this masking of the social is politically significant. In these previously published essays, Sally Haslanger draws on insights from feminist and critical race theory to explore and develop the idea that gender and race are positions within a structure of social relations. On this interpretation, the point of saying that gender and race are socially constructed is not to make a causal claim about the origins of our concepts of gender and race, or to take a stand in the nature/nurture debate, but to locate these categories within a realist social ontology. This is politically important, for by theorizing how gender and race fit within different structures of social relations we are better able to identify and combat forms of systematic injustice.Although the central essays of the book focus on a critical social realisTrade ReviewHaslanger's book contains thoughtful and innovative essays in the field of social construction. * Akos Sivado, Philosophy in Review *There is real insight to be gained from the clarity and carefulness that Haslanger brings to her analyses of these issues. * Alessandra Tanesini, Radical Philosophy *this is an excellent collection that advances philosophical work on social construction, gender and race, and language and knowledge. ... Haslangers collection is well worth a careful exploration, particularly for those philosophers with a broad range of research interests and a commitment to combining philosophical thought with action directed toward social justice. * Sally Haslanger, Social Theory and Practice *extremely insightful analysis of social reality ... is engaged philosophy at its best. * Asta Kristjana Sveinsdottir, TPM *Haslangers transparent philosophical prose provokes the reader to critically engage with the unfolding arguments. * Federica Gregoratto, Journal of Social Ontology *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; I. Social Construction ; 1. "Social Construction: Myths and Reality" ; 2. "On Being Objective and Being Objectified." ; 3. "Ontology and Social Construction." ; 4. "Social Construction: The "Debunking" Project." ; 5. "Feminism and Metaphysics: Negotiating the Natural." ; 6. "Family, Ancestry and Self: What is the Moral Significance of Biological Ties?" ; 7. "Gender and Race: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them To Be?" ; 8. "Future Genders? Future Races?" ; 9. "You Mixed? Racial Identity without Racial Biology." ; 10. "A Social Constructionist Analysis of Race" ; 11. "Oppressions: Racial and Other" ; III. Language and Knowledge ; 12. "What Knowledge Is and What It Ought To Be: Feminist Values and Normative Epistemology" ; 13. "What Are We Talking About? The Semantics and Politics of Social Kinds" ; 14. "What Good Are Our Intuitions? Philosophical Analysis and Social Kinds" ; 15. "But Mom, Crop-Tops Are Cute!" ; 16. "Language, Politics and 'The Folk': Looking for the 'Meaning' of Race " ; 17. "Ideology, Generics, and Common Ground"

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Book SynopsisWhen the noted political philosopher Iris Marion Young died in 2006, her death was mourned as the passing of one of the most important political philosophers of the past quarter-century (Cass Sunstein) and as an important and innovative thinker working at the conjunction of a number of important topics: global justice; democracy and difference; continental political theory; ethics and international affairs; and gender, race and public policy. In her long-awaited Responsibility for Justice, Young discusses our responsibilities to address structural injustices in which we among many are implicated (but for which we not to blame), often by virtue of participating in a market, such as buying goods produced in sweatshops, or participating in booming housing markets that leave many homeless. Young argues that addressing these structural injustices requires a new model of responsibility, which she calls the social connection model. She develops this idea by clarifying the nature of structuralTrade ReviewYoung is wonderful at painting the picture for why we should concern oursleves with structural injustice. * Yolanda Y. Wilson, Mind *Table of ContentsForeword ; Martha C. Nussbaum ; 1. From Personal to Political Responsibility ; 2. Structure as the Subject of Justice ; 3. Guilt versus Responsibility: ; A Reading and Partial Critique of Hannah Arendt ; 4. A Social Connection Model ; 5. Responsibility Across Borders ; 6. Avoiding Responsibility ; 7. Responsibility and Historic Injustice ; Index

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Book SynopsisMedieval Douai left an enormous archive of documents. This text reveals how these documents were produced in an effort to regulate property and gender relations. At the centre was a shift to a property regime based on contract. The book explores why the law changed and assesses its effects.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Note on Money, Dates, and Names Introduction Le Libert v. Rohard Ch. 1: From Custom to Contract Ch. 2: The Social Context of Custom Ch. 3: Legal Reform as Social Engineering Ch. 4: The Social Logic--and Illogic--of Custom Ch. 5: An Alternative Logic Ch. 6: Living with the New Ch. 7: The Weight of Experience Ch. 8: The Douaisien Reform in Historical Context Conclusion: Marie, Franchoise, and Their Sisters App. A: The Evolution of Douai's Douaire Coutumier App. B: Written Custom and Old Custom in Douai Glossary of Legal Terminology Glossary of Measures Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisContemporary American women are writing long poems in a variety of styles which repossess history, reconceive female subjectivity, and seek to revitalize poetry itself. This book explores this evolving body of work, offering revealing discussions of its diverse traditions and feminist concerns.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Pushing the Limits of Genre and Gender: Women's Long Poems as Forms of Expansion 1: "To Remember / Our Dis-membered Parts": Sharon Doubiago and the Complementary Woman's Epic 2: "Helen, Your Strength / Is in Your Memory": Judy Grahn's Lesbian Warriors and Gynocentric Tales of the Tribe 3: Sequences Testifying for "Nobodies": Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah and Brenda Marie Osbey's Desperate Circumstance, Dangerous Woman 4: Measured Feet "in Gender-Bender Shoes": Marilyn Hacker's Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons 5: "The Silences Are Equal to the Sounds": Documentary History and Susan Howe's "The Liberties" 6: Grand Collage "Out of Bounds": Feminist Serial Poems by Beverly Dahlen and Rachel Blau DuPlessis Conclusion: This Genre Which Is Not One: A Short Wrap-up on Long Poems by Women Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisIn this text, Sally Kitch argues that associating feminist thought with utopianism is a mistake. Drawing on the history of utopian thought, she defines utopian thinking, explores the pitfalls of pursuing social change and argues for a higher ground - a contrasting approach she calls realism.

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Book SynopsisForeword; I.Whelehan Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; S.Gillis, G.Howie & R.Munford PART I: GENERATIONS AND GENEALOGIES 'Feminists Love a Utopia': Collaboration, Conflict and the Futures of Feminism; L.S.Sanders On the Genealogy of Women: A Defence of Anti-Essentialism; A.Stone Kristeva and the Trans-missions of the Intertext: Signs, Mothers and Speaking in Tongues; M.Orr Feminist Dissonance: The Logic of Late Feminism; G.Howie & A.Tauchert Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question; S.Stryker Theorizing the Intermezzo: The Contributions of Postfeminism and Third Wave Feminism; A.D.Lotz 'You're not One of Those Boring Masculinists, Are You?': The Question of Male-Embodied Feminist Criticism; A. Shail PART II: LOCALES AND LOCATIONS Wa(i)ving it all Away: Subject Formation and Knowledge Formation in Feminisms of Colour; M.N.Chakraborty 'It's all About the Benjamins': Economic Determinants of Third Wave Feminism in the United States; L.Heywood & J.Drake ImagininTrade Review'This expanded second edition of 'Third Wave Feminism' is an unexpected pleasure. While much work on 'the third wave' is ahistorical, nationally-bounded and analytically bankrupt, here the editors bring together an impressive range of articles living up to the volume's subtitle of 'critical exploration'. The anthology provides a historically and conceptually grounded background to the area, highlights the limits as well as possibilities of generational approaches, and constitutes a politically diverse, international set of reflections on the terrain. Essential reading.' - Clare Hemmings, Gender Institute, London School of Economics 'This is an excellent and important book that left me, as Imelda Whelehan puts it at the end of her foreword, "once again caring that I am a feminist, whatever the era.'' - Alice Ridout, Contemporary Women's WritingTable of ContentsForeword; I.Whelehan Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; S.Gillis, G.Howie & R.Munford PART I: GENERATIONS AND GENEALOGIES 'Feminists Love a Utopia': Collaboration, Conflict and the Futures of Feminism; L.S.Sanders On the Genealogy of Women: A Defence of Anti-Essentialism; A.Stone Kristeva and the Trans-missions of the Intertext: Signs, Mothers and Speaking in Tongues; M.Orr Feminist Dissonance: The Logic of Late Feminism; G.Howie & A.Tauchert Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question; S.Stryker Theorizing the Intermezzo: The Contributions of Postfeminism and Third Wave Feminism; A.D.Lotz 'You're not One of Those Boring Masculinists, Are You?': The Question of Male-Embodied Feminist Criticism; A. Shail PART II: LOCALES AND LOCATIONS Wa(i)ving it all Away: Subject Formation and Knowledge Formation in Feminisms of Colour; M.N.Chakraborty 'It's all About the Benjamins': Economic Determinants of Third Wave Feminism in the United States; L.Heywood & J.Drake Imagining Feminist Futures: The Third Wave, Postfeminism and Eco/feminism; N.Moore A Different Chronology: Reflections on Feminism in Contemporary Poland; A.Graff Global Feminism, Transnational Political Economies, Third World Cultural Production; W.Woodhull Neither Cyborg nor Goddess: The (Im)possibilities of Cyberfeminism; S.Gillis PART III: POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE Contests for the Meaning of Third Wave Feminism: Feminism and Popular Consciousness; E.K.Garrison 'Also I Wanted so Much to Leave for the West': Postcolonial Feminism Rides the Third Wave; A.Valassopoulos (Un)fashionable Feminists: The Media and Ally McBeal; K.Gorton 'Kicking Ass is Comfort Food': Buffy as Third Wave Feminist Icon; P.Pender 'My Guns are in the Fendi!': The Postfeminist Female Action Hero; C.L.Stasia Sexing it Up? Women, Pornography and the Third Wave Feminism; M.Waters 'Wake Up and Smell the Lipgloss': Gender, Generation and the (A)politics of Girl Power; R.Munford IN DIALOGUE Interview with Luce Irigaray; G.Howie Interview with Elaine Showalter; S.Gillis & R.Munford Afterword; J.Spencer Index

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Book SynopsisKelli D. Zaytoun draws on Gloria Anzaldúa's thought to present a radically inclusive and expansive approach to selfhood, creativity, scholarship, healing, coalition-building, and activism. Zaytoun focuses on Anzaldúa's naguala/ shapeshifter, a concept of nagualismo. This groundbreaking theory of subjectivity details a dynamic relationship between inner work and public acts that strengthens individuals' roles in social and transformative justice work. Zaytoun's detailed emphasis on la naguala, and Nahua metaphysics specifically, brings much needed attention to Anzaldúa's long-overlooked contribution to the study of subjectivity. The result is a women and queer of color, feminist-focused work aimed at scholars in many disciplines and intended to overcome barriers separating the academy from everyday life and community. An original and moving analysis, Shapeshifting Subjects draws on unpublished archival material to apply Anzaldúa's ideas to new areas of thought and action.Trade Review"A significant text in the scholarship of Gloria Anzaldúa and in Latina/x feminisms in general. Zaytoun's in-depth analysis of la naguala, a key concept in Anzaldúa's work that has been barely theorized, will move Anzaldúa scholarship in new directions."--Mariana Ortega, author of In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self"Shapeshifting Subjects takes us to the radical edge of many untheorized aspects of Gloria Anzaldúa’s theoretical toolbox including shapeshifting, naguala, and intra-relationality. Zaytoun revives the possibilities of shapeshifting for radical feminist work long preoccupied with difference and coalition building, and decolonial methods for healing colonial wounds. Shapeshifing transports ontological becoming with a dazzling array of more-than-human forms of consciousness. Brimming with nuanced critical insights and poignant reflection, you will be moved after reading this book."--Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, author of Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the AmericasTable of ContentsSeries Editor’s Foreword ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii INTRODUCTION: Toward a Radically Relational Consciousness 1 CHAPTER ONE. La Naguala in Theory and Practice 9 CHAPTER TWO. “An Artist in the Sense of a Shaman”: Border Arte as Decolonial Practice 41 CHAPTER THREE. Connections with Arab American Feminism 65 CHAPTER FOUR. “Reaching Through the Wound to Connect”: Trauma and Healing as Shapeshifting 95 CONCLUSION: Toward New Potentials of Imagination 121 Notes 131 Works Cited 151 Subject Index 165 Gloria Anzaldúa Works Index 171

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is a ground-breaking work that builds a robust and outspoken Asian American feminist conceptual framework and praxis with special attention to the complexities of Asian American feminist resistances, struggles, and self-creations." * Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy *"[P]rovides a road map in developing Asian American feminist theory and coalitional politics."

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Book SynopsisHalf a century after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring machines inspired only by variations of sex, shopping and masochism - all coloured a brilliant neuro-pink?In this volume, fifty women young and old - writers, politicians, actors, scientists, mothers - reflect on the shades that inspired them and what being woman means to them today. Contributors include: Margaret Atwood, Joan Bakewell, Bidisha, Lydia Cacho, Shami Chakrabarti, Lennie Goodings, Linda Grant, Natalie Haynes, Siri Hustvedt, Kathy Lette, Kate Mosse, Pussy Riot, Bee Rowlatt, Elif Shafak, Ahdaf Soueif, Sandi Toksvig, Natasha Walter, Timberlake Wertenbaker Jeanette Winterson - alongside the three editors.Trade ReviewEvery contributor could silence a Twitter brigade of #IDontNeedFeminism in her sleep . . . insightful, broad and engaging * Drafted *

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Book Synopsis''You''ll be moved by the brave women in Awakening'' Malala Yousafzai''Awakening goes where no book has gone before. Inspiring, insightful, profoundly moving'' Hillary Rodham ClintonAll over the world, #MeToo inspired generations of women to fight in new ways for their rights.In Brazil, women run for office at the risk of intimidation and murder. In China, activists drown out internet censors and defy arrests. In Egypt, the president calls protestors terrorists. In Tunisia, activists bring down a predatory government minister.In Nigeria, the movement unites Muslim and Christian survivors.In Pakistan, actresses confront accused assailants in court. In Sweden, the movement rocks citizens to their core.Awakening reveals the true scope of the greatest global reckoning on women''s rights in history.Trade ReviewAwakening goes where no book has gone before, taking readers on a journey around the world in a powerful exploration of the most widespread cultural reckoning around women's rights in history. In chronicling the global impact of the #MeToo movement, Meighan Stone and Rachel Vogelstein capture the speed and scale of women-led organizing in the digital age, as well as the social, economic, and legal progress that's possible when we come together to demand change. Inspiring, insightful, and profoundly moving, this book is a must-read for women and men alike. * Hillary Rodham Clinton *You'll be moved by the brave women in Awakening - just like #MeToo founder and activist Tarana Burke was when she read their stories. Through their reporting and research, Meighan Stone and Rachel Vogelstein bring us closer to a new generation of women who are using digital activism to achieve change * Malala Yousafzai *Dynamically told and sharply written, Awakening is the global #MeToo book we've been waiting for, transporting readers over borders and across cultures * Jill Filipovic *A must-read for anyone thinking about the social and political consequences of #MeToo. This book provides critical insight into the movement's global impact and the future of equality for women around the world * Soraya Chemaly *

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Book SynopsisThis is a timely update of a seminal text which re-interprets key films of the horror genre, including Carrie, The Exorcist, The Brood and Psycho.In the first edition, Creed draws on Julia Kristevaâs theory of abjection to challenge the popular view that women in horror are almost always victims, and argues that patriarchal ideology constructs women as monstrous in relation to her sexuality and reproductive body to justify her subjugation. Although a projection of male fears and paranoid fantasies, the monstrous-feminine is nonetheless a terrifying figure. Creedâs argument contests Freudian and Lacanian theories of sexual difference to offer a provocative rereading of classical and contemporary horror. This updated edition includes a new section examining contemporary feminist horror films in relation to nonhuman theory. Creed proposes a new concept of radical abjection to reinterpret the monstrous-feminine as a figure who embraces abTrade Review"Barbara Creed’s The Monstrous-Feminine is one of the most influential books to emerge in the early 90s. The Monstrous-Feminine defined how our generation and our discipline viewed the horror genre. In this new edition, Creed does it again, recontextualizing the conception of the monstrous-feminine to track many of the evolutions in the horror genre and this revised edition will continue to shape our understanding of the horror genre in the new millennium."Aaron Kramer, Professor, and Director of the SFSU School of Cinema, San Francisco State University"Creed’s The Monstrous-Feminine radically changed the logic of abjection and how it is linked with women. In her profoundly original analysis of horror films, Creed upended a concept emanating from psychoanalysis, traditionally perceived as scaffolding supporting patriarchy, to demonstrate how women could be seen as the agents of abjection rather than as its passive victims. In this new edition Creed expands and updates the filmography to include horror films created by women to augment the ways in which the monstrous-feminine functions deliciously as patriarchy’s retribution."Sneja Gunew, Professor Emerita (English/Social Justice Institute), University of British Columbia, Canada"In this new and expanded edition of the classic The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Barbara Creed adds a crucial monstrous-feminine register: the nonhuman. With the nonhuman, female horror touches the profound source of abjection. Twenty-first Century feminist horror, Creed shows, introduces a series of startling tropes: the metamorphizing adolescent girl, the female zombie, and the creatrix. Together these female monsters question the stability and uniqueness of the human. In an age at which anthropogenic and patriarchal harms threaten the very survival of the planet, embracing the nonhuman becomes a remedial, even liberating gesture."Anat Pick, Reader in Film, Queen Mary University of London"Thirty years after the publication of Barbara Creed’s classic text, which revolutionised approaches to the analysis of women in horror films, the monstrous- feminine looms large. This updated edition, which includes entirely new chapters, interrogates the concept in contemporary contexts through a range of diverse films directed by women, and through the exploration of recent progressive social movements. What emerges are newer "faces", more nuanced forms of horror that speak to a global audience and that revitalise the force of the abject in more expanded ways that continue to revolt against patriarchal order."Rina Arya, Professor of Visual Culture and Theory, University of HuddersfieldTable of ContentsPreface to the Second EditionPart I Faces of the Monstrous-Feminine: Abjection and the MaternalIntroduction1 Kristeva, Femininity, Abjection2 Horror and the Archaic Mother: Alien3 Woman as Possessed Monster: The Exorcist4 Woman as Monstrous Womb: The Brood5 Woman as Vampire: The Hunger6 Woman as Witch: CarriePart II Medusa’s Head: Psychoanalytic Theory and theFemme CastratricePreface7 ‘Little Hans’ Reconsidered: or ‘The Tale of Mother’s Terrifying Widdler’8 Medusa’s Head: the Vagina Dentata and Freudian theory9 The femme castratrice: I spit on your grave, sisters10 The Castrating Mother: Psycho11 The Medusa’s GazePart III Revolt of the Monstrous-Feminine: Embracing the NonhumanIntroduction: The Nonhuman Turn an Women’s Horror of the New Millennium12 Coming of Age: The Monstrous-Feminine as Virginal Dentata: Ginger Snaps: (2000), Teeth (2007), Jennifer’s Body (2009).13 The Monstrous-Feminine as Avenging Zombie: The Girl With All The Gifts (2016), The Dark (2018), Atlantics (2019). 14 The Monstrous-Feminine as Uncanny Creatrix: Border (2018), Little Joe (2019), Titane (2021). BibliographyFilmographyIndex

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Book SynopsisSubaltern Women''s Narratives brings together intersectional feminist scholarship from the Humanities and Social Sciences and explores subaltern women's narratives of resistance and subversion. Interdisciplinary in nature, the collection focuses on fictional texts, archival records, and ethnographic research to explore the lived experiences of subaltern women in different marginalised communities across a wide geographical landscape, as they negotiate their way through modes of labour and activism. Thematically grouped, the focus of this book is two-fold: to look at the lived experiences of subaltern women as they negotiate their lives in a world of political flux and conflicts; and to examine subaltern women's dissenting practices as recorded in texts and archives. This collection will push the boundaries of scholarship on decolonial and postcolonial feminism and subaltern studies, reading women's subversive practices especially in the themes of epistemology and embTable of Contents1. Introduction: Subaltern Women’s ResistancePART I: EPISTEMOLOGICAL DISSENT2. Narratives of Hidden Curriculum in Fiji3. "Insulting the Modesty of a Woman?!": Examining the Language of Protest in Malawi4. Marginalised Women in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: Novels as Fictional Intervention5. Unhomed Knowledge: The Diasporic Family as Site of Subaltern Pedagogy6. Searching in the Shadows: Aboriginal Women in Early Colonial New South Wales7. Feminist voice(s) in South African Curriculum-Making and DisseminationPART II: EMBODYING RESISTANCE8. Touching the ‘Untouchable’: Depiction of Body and Sexuality in Select Dalit Women’s Autobiographies9. Rethinking Subalternity through Posthuman and Feminist Entanglements: Violence, Displacement, Exile and the Woman Subject in Contemporary Turkish Literature10. Conjuring up a Shadow: A Case of Castration in a Colonial Archiv11. Voicing Sexual and Social Resistance in Seventeenth-Century ManilaPART III: PRACTICING SUBVERSION12. Survival and Resilience: Rohingya Refugee Women’s Narratives of Life, Loss, and Hope13. Translating into Other Identities: Bama and Her Writing14. Thriving, Surviving and Hanging on: Domestic Workers in Harare Suburbs15. Restitution of Conjugal Rights and the Dissenting Female Body: The Rukhmabai Case16. Subaltern’s Resistance against Rape and Sexual Assault: An Aporia?

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities is a dynamic reference source to the key contemporary analytic in feminist thought: intersectionality. Comprising over 50 chapters by a diverse, international, and interdisciplinary team of contributors, the Companion is divided into nine parts: Retracing intersectional genealogies Intersectional methods and (inter)disciplinarity Intersectionalityâs travels Intersectional borderwork Trans* intersectionalities Disability and intersectional embodiment Intersectional science and data studies Popular culture at the intersections Rethinking intersectional justice This accessibly written collection is essential reading for students, teachers, and researchers working in womenâs and gender studies, sexuality studies, African American studies, sociology, politics, and other related subjects from across the humanities and social sciences.

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the barriers to women's economic empowerment in the Global South. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of countries, the book outlines important lessons and practical solutions for promoting gender equality. Despite global progress in closing gender gaps in education and health, women's economic empowerment has lagged behind, with little evidence that economic growth promotes gender equality. International Development Research Centre's (IDRC) Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) programme was set up to provide policy lessons, insights, and concrete solutions that could lead to advances in gender equality, particularly on the role of institutions and macroeconomic growth, barriers to labour market access for women, and the impact of women's care responsibilities. This book showcases rigorous and multi-disciplinary research emerging from this ground-breaking programme, covering topics such as the school-to-work transition, child mTrade Review"With research syntheses on topics including labour markets, care, macroeconomic issues, and social norms, along with diverse case studies from many countries, Women’s Economic Empowerment: Insights from Africa and South Asia represents a vital new contribution to our understanding of the relationship between gender inequality and the dynamics of economies in low-resource settings." -- Ruth Levine, CEO, IDinsight, USA"This edited volume presents cutting-edge research on women’s economic empowerment from diverse settings in the Global South. Through an examination of the gendered continuities, disruptions, and contradictions in the social and economic status of women in developing countries, it demonstrates why structural gender inequalities may persist despite individualised advancement of some women and what can be done about it." -- Bipasha Baruah, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Women’s Issues, Western University, Canada"Does economic growth promote gender equality? Based on rigorous primary research in 50 countries in the developing world, the answers from this ambitious research program reflect the context-specificity of gender relations and the complex relationships among labour markets, social norms, and care work to identify options for programmes and policy." -- Agnes Quisumbing, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute, USA Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women Programme Part I: Conceptualizing the Relationship Between Economic Growth and Gender Equality 1. Gender Equality, Inclusive Growth, and Labour Markets Part II: Syntheses of Grow-Supported Research on Women’s Economic Empowerment 2. Stalled Progress 3. Macroeconomics and Gender 4. Developing Care 5. Gender, Social Norms, and Women’s Economic Empowerment Part III: Evidence from Grow-Supported Case Studies in Developing Country Contexts 6. A Mine of One’s Own? 7. Picturing Change Through Photovoice 8. Paid Work and Unpaid Care Work in India, Nepal, Tanzania, and Rwanda 9. Women’s Labour Force Participation in Sri Lanka’s North 10. The School-To-Work Transition for Young Females in Sub-Saharan Africa Conclusion: Programming and Policy Lessons and Future Research Priorities for Women’s Economic Empowerment

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Book SynopsisCaught as we are in a grave climate crisis that seems more irreversible with every passing year, our literary portrayals of the future often feature the dystopian collapse of the world as we know it. Science fiction explores how we got here, while pointing toward a more hopeful path forward. From an ecofeminist perspective, a core cause of our current ecological catastrophe is the patriarchal domination of nature, playing out in parallel with the oppression of women. As an alternative to dystopian futures that seem increasingly inevitable, ecofeminist science fiction helps us conjure utopias that promote environmental sustainability based on more egalitarian human relationships.Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction explores the fictional worlds of such canonical novelists as Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing, and Joan Slonczewski, as well as those of lesser-known science fiction writers, asTrade Review"In an era of planetary crisis, Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction offers a smart, urgent alternative to our collective downward spiral, not only offering fiery critique of our selfish and self-destructive present but galvanizing, positive visions of ‘what futures we might hope for.’" --Gerry Canavan, Associate Professor of English, Marquette University and co-editor of Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction"Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond is a timely and welcome contribution to ecofeminist studies in the age of climate change and the Anthropocene, covering an impressive range of anglophone feminist speculative fictions. The spirited contributions provide powerful insights into both dystopian and utopian visions of our past, current, and future trajectories, urgently highlighting the intersection of patriarchal and anthropocentric domination of women and nature. These ecofeminist imaginaries compellingly provide us with much needed glimpses of hope." --Dunja M. Mohr, Professor of English, University of Erfurt and author of Worlds Apart?: Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias"Ecofeminist writers have long used science fiction as a futuristic and sometimes other-worldly medium through which to imagine and energize social and ecological solutions in this world, the one we inhabit here and now. Doug Vakoch's latest collection encompasses a dazzling array of international scholarly voices, considering the work of eminent and less-well-known women science fiction writers from the 19th century to the present. This book is an exciting and timely contribution to the field of ecocriticism." --Scott Slovic, University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Idaho and author of Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing"With twelve distinctive chapters that explore various ecofeminist dimensions of both dystopic fictional worlds and science fiction utopias of distant planets, this impressive new collection makes us imagine the worst and the best of times here on Earth: a world in environmental turbulence or ecological equilibrium. Only when the oppression of women and the exploitation of the more-than-human environments vanish, is the second option more likely to be our reality." --Serpil Oppermann, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University and co-editor of International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism."I highly recommend this collection of insightful studies of imaginative fiction addressing human and nonhuman communities. The feminist perspective helps us envision ways to sustain our global ecosystem beyond the many threats of our present day." --Joan Slonczewski, Professor of Biology, Kenyon College and author of A Door into Ocean"Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond presents work by a diverse group of scholars whose analyses together demonstrate how feminist authors have mobilized the genre tools of science fiction both to caution and to hope. Especially at a time like ours—a time of great social and environmental distress—readers will come away from this book with a reinforced appreciation for the critical and creative insight of Octavia E. Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others in the canon of feminist and ecological science fiction. Too, readers will find adroit interpretations of works they have yet to encounter, no doubt inspiring an even deeper recognition of the historical intersections among feminism, environmentalism, and science fiction." --Eric C. Otto, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Florida Gulf Coast University and author of Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism"Situated within the broad interdisciplinary context of the environmental humanities, Dystopias and Utopias of Earth and Beyond presents an eminently useful addition to ecofeminist studies of science fiction and dystopianism. Featuring contributions from an international cohort of scholars, the collection harnesses the increasing momentum of environmental literary studies at this crucial juncture in the history of the biosphere." --John Charles Ryan, Southern Cross University and co-editor of The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal WorldTable of ContentsForeword Vandana SinghPreface Douglas A. VakochIntroduction Patrick D. MurphyI. Climate Change and Future Earth Dystopias1. An Ecofeminist Reading of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of Talents Hatice Övgü Tüzün2. An Ecofeminist Treatment of Nourishment and Feeding in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy Debra Wain3. Margaret Atwood’s Ecodystopic SF: Approaching Ethics, Gender, and Ecology Izabel F. O. Brandão and Ildney Cavalcanti4. Ecofeminist (Post) Ice-Age Ecotopia: Doris Lessing’s Mara and Dann Books Julia Kuznetski5. Ecofeminist Climate Fiction: Merlinda Bobis’s Locust Girl Iris RalphII. Utopias on Earth and Beyond6. "Extinction is Forever": Ecofeminism and Apocalypse in Louise Lawrence’s Young Adult Short Fiction Michelle Deininger and Gemma Scammell7. Ecofeminist Utopian Speculations in Henrietta Augusta Dugdale’s A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age (1883), Catherine Helen Spence’s A Week in the Future (1888), Mary Anne Moore-Bentley’s A Woman of Mars; Or, Australia’s Enfranchised Woman (1901), and Joyce Vincent’s The Celestial Hand: A Sensational Story Nicole Anae8. Alien Ecofeminist Societies: "Sharers" in Joan Slonczewski’s A Door into Ocean Irene Sanz Alonso9. Re-reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s SF: The Daoist Yin Principle in Ecofeminist Novels Amy Chan Kit-sze10. Keeping Grows; Giving Flows: Reciprocal Relations and the Gift of Always Coming Home Karl Zuelke11. "The Revolt of the Mother": Romanticizing Nature and Rejecting Science in Sally Miller Gearhart’s The Wanderground and Other Feminist Utopias Christy Tidwell

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Book SynopsisThis anthology is the first such collection to focus on the exclusively philosophical aspects of ecological feminism. It addresses basic questions about the conceptual underpinnings of `women-nature'' connections, and emphasises the importance of seeing sexism and the exploitation of the environment as parallel forms of domination. Ecological Feminism is enriched by the inclusion of essays which take differing views of the importance and nature of ecofeminism. It will be an invaluable resource for courses on women''s studies, environmental studies and philosophy.Trade Review'An introductory text for the philosophical aspects of eco-feminism. It is well referenced, with a useful index. It should be on the reading lists for students of feminism, ecology (of all kinds), philosophy and post-modernism.' - Scientific & Medical NetworkTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Karen J. Warren Is Ecofeminism Feminst? Victoria Davion Wrongs of Passage: Three Challenges to the Maturing of Ecofeminism Deborah Slicer Rethinking Again: A Defense of Ecofeminist Philosophy Douglas J. Buege The Ecopolitics Debate and the Politics of Nature Val Plumwood Ecofeminism, Deep Ecology, and Human Population Christine J. Cuomo The Limits of Partiality: Ecofeminism, Animal Rights, and Environmental Concern David Kenneth Johnson and Kathleen R. Johnson Towards an Ecofeminist Moral Epistemology Lori Gruen Restructuring the Discursive Moral Subject in Ecological Feminism Phillip Payne Nature/Theory/Difference: Ecofeminism and the Reconstruction of Environmental Ethics Jim Cheney Toward an Ecofeminist Peace Politics Karen J. Warren Biographical Sketches of Contributors

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