Feminism and feminist theory Books
University of Illinois Press Football and Manliness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What does the NFL have to do with the rise of Donald Trump? Thomas Oates' expansive and readable book provides a riveting and often surprising answer to this question. This vital account of the racist and masculinist populism that is enabled--and occasionally constrained--through the culture of professional football is a must read for scholars and fans alike."--Samantha King, author of Pink Ribbons, Inc: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy "Oates offers clear arguments regarding ideologies of masculinity, race, gender, and sexuality; all chapters work with and build on each other leading to a coherent, all-encompassing argument. . . . Recommended."--Choice "Engaging, thoughtful, and timely, Football and Manliness moves the conversation beyond the gridiron to spotlight the ways that football shapes our collective understanding of masculinity and its implications within the broader social and economic arenas."--David J. Leonard, author of After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness "Oates compellingly demonstrates the worthiness of the NFL as an urgent and productive site of scholarly inquiry within cultural studies."--Lateral "Readers interested in feminist scholarship, sociology of sport, twenty-first-century masculinity, the black athlete, and popular culture will find this theoretical framework and authoritative analysis valuable."--Journal of Sport History
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University of Illinois Press In a Classroom of Their Own The Intersection of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMichael Harrington Book Award, New Political Science Caucus of the American Political Science Association, 2019 "Lindsay’s book is a much-needed contribution to the examination of education for black children. . . . This book is a must-read for scholars interested in education, single-sex education, a history of intersectionality, and feminist politics." --Politics & Gender"A dispassionate and well-reasoned argument. None of the other books on the 'boy crisis in schools' or 'pushout of girls in schools' or 'myths about the black male crisis' deal in such a devoted fashion with both the case of all-black male schools and philosophy."--Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, author of Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability"Far-thinking and boldly argued, In a Classroom of Their Own explores the dilemmas faced by professionals and parents in search of equitable schooling for all students -- black boys and otherwise." --Ibram X. Kendi, Black Perspectives "In this brilliant study of the All-Black-Male-School Movement, Keisha Lindsay makes a critical contribution to contemporary policy debates, demonstrating how mistaken notions about the immediate grasp of oppressive experience lead social justice activists seriously astray, while also theorizing political means to alter institutional practices and structures of power toward more progressive ends."--Mary Hawkesworth, author of Embodied Power: Demystifying Disembodied Politics"For anyone who worries about the vexed relationship of race, gender, and justice in American schools, Keisha Lindsay's A Classroom of Their Own is a revelation. Lindsay offers an intersectional interpretation of the politics of all-male black schools and builds on the work of political theorists, activists, and education specialists to envision educational reforms that advance the well-being of all children."--Lawrie Balfour, author of Democracy's Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W. E. B. Du Bois"Keisha Lindsay’s In a Classroom of Their Own is the book on all black male schools (ABMSs) that I’ve been waiting for. The way she draws on intersectional analysis to illustrate how many black male supporters of ABMSs can articulate a simultaneously antifeminist and antiracist politics is as groundbreaking as it is sobering. Rather than dismissing intersectional analysis because of its potential to foster antifeminist, homophobic thought and practices, Lindsay identifies a more thoughtful, counterintuitive way to combat the race-gender achievement gap: form coalitions that interrogate the liberatory as well as less-than-liberatory potential of one’s own and others’ experience. In a Classroom of Their Own is the kind of critical analysis we need to ensure that today’s and future generations of black students can experience formal education that fosters self-determination and liberation."--Lance McCready, author of Making Space for Diverse Masculinities: Difference, Intersectionality, and Engagement in an Urban High School"Lindsay's engagement with this subject is nuanced, sensitive, and sophisticated." --Teachers College Record"Does an excellent job revealing the shortcomings surrounding current conversations regarding school reform." --Men and Masculinities
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University of Illinois Press Shapeshifting Subjects Gloria Anzalduas Naguala
Book SynopsisTrade 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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University of Illinois Press Virgin Crossing Borders
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A beautifully written book that takes the reader on a journey, beginning with the author’s interest in the topic through her struggles to create a translation that will empower and change the lives of her readers and the way they see the world. Ergun makes a convincing case for how essential translation is for transnational feminism and provides a unique, behind-the-scenes look at what translations can do. This book left me feeling inspired and even hopeful--a rare experience in these troubling times.”--Kathy Davis, author of The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels across BordersTable of ContentsForeword AnaLouise Keating Preface: Traveling (with) Books Acknowledgments Introduction: Translation in Feminism / Feminism in Translation Comparative Geohistories of Virginity Re-visioning Virginity in the Rewriting of Virgin Remaking Feminist Subjectivity in Feminist Translation Local Politics of Feminist Translation Feminist Translation as a Praxis of Cross-Border Interconnectivity Imagined Translational Feminist Communities Conclusion: Translation in Transnational/Transnational in Translation Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Illinois Press Womens Activist Theatre in Jamaica and South
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Women's Activist Theatre in Jamaica and South Africa is a provocative ethnographic look at some of the most influential Black women’s theatre collectives in the world. Focusing on Jamaica and South Africa, Nicosia M. Shakes takes us on a journey into the world of theater for social change, emphasizing the ways that Black women have chosen use performance and embodiment to agitate for rights and speak out against multiple forms of violence. Engaging with performance as a public practice, Shakes demonstrates how the theater has been and continues to be a valuable political zone for Black women. Women's Activist Theatre in Jamaica and South Africa makes critical contributions to Black performance studies, Black Studies, theater studies and anthropology, and is a must read for anyone interested in the transnational politics of race, gender, and the political stage.”--Christen A. Smith, author of Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in BrazilTable of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Terms and Concepts Introduction: Race, Gender, Space “Mek Wi Choose fi Wiself”: Performing a Discourse of Justice in A Slice of Reality “The Wound is Still There”: Walk: South Africa and the Ontological Violence of Rape “Mi a go try release yu”: Mourning, Memory, and Violence in A Vigil for Roxie. “Alternative Spaces”: Black Self-Making, Space-Making, and the Work of Olive Tree Theatre Coda: Performing Activism across Space and Time Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Illinois Press Disrupting Colonial Pedagogies
Book SynopsisThe impact of conquest and colonialism on identity and the construction of knowledge Jillian Ford and Nathalia E. Jaramillo edit a collection of writings by women that examine womanist worldviews in philosophy, theory, curriculum, public health, and education. Drawing on thinkers like bell hooks and Cynthia Dillard, the essayists challenge the colonizing hegemonies that raise and sustain patriarchal and male-centered systems of teaching and learning. Part One examines how womanist theorizing and creative activity offer a space to study the impact of conquest and colonization on the Black female body and spirit. In Part Two, the contributors look at ways of using text, philosophy, and research methodologies to challenge colonizing and colonial definitions of womanhood, enlightenment, and well-being. The essays in Part Three undo the colonial pedagogical project and share the insights they have gained by freeing themselves from its chokehold. Powerful and interdisciplinary, Disrupting CTrade Review“Inspired by bell hooks’ engaged and transgressive pedagogical discourses, this compelling, informative, ‘disruptive’ anthology captures the powerful reflections of feminist/womanist women of color as they interrogate toxic practices of the white academy in the South. The essays, which cover a rich variety of topics, are candid, brilliant, sobering, informative and inspirational. A must read for strategies to transform higher education during challenging times.”--Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman CollegeTable of ContentsForeword—AnaLouise Keating Acknowledgments Introduction—Nathalia E. Jaramillo and Jillian FordPart I: Disembodying Coloniality 1 Vivisection: Decolonizing Media’s Hidden Curriculum of Black Female Subjectivity through a Mash-Up of Visual Arts and Performance—Khalilah Ali 2 Breath, Spirit, and Energy Transmutation: Womanist Praxes to Counter Coloniality —Jillian FordPart II: Transforming Interventions 3 Discursive Colonialism of Hmong Women in Western Texts: Education, Representation, and Subjectivity—Leena N. Her 4 A Spiritual Infusion: An Anti-Colonial Feminist Approach to Academic Healing and Transformative Education—Angela Malone Cartwright 5 Healing the Soul—Curando el Alma—Na Sanna’e Ini’e Collective: A Feminist BIPOC Migrant Mixtec Serving Leadership and Research Initiative—Lorri J. Santamaría, Adriana Diego, Genevieve Flores-Haro, Silvia García Aguilár, Luisa León Salazár, Claudia Lozáno, Liliana Manriquez, and Alberta SalazárPart III: Undoing Command 6 #CrunkPublicHealth: Decolonial Feminist Praxes of Cultivating Liberatory and Transdisciplinary Learning, Research, and Action Spaces—LeConté J. Dill 7 Activating Space and Spirit: Meditations on Spiritually Sustaining Pedagogies—Sameena Eidoo 8 Dear Doctoral Student of Color: Academic Advising as Anti-Colonial Womanist Pedagogy and Theory—Patricia Krueger-Henney Contributors Index
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University of Illinois Press Figures of Resistance Essays in Feminist Theory
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is crucial work. What we find here is a scholar at the top of her form paying attention to her field, in its broadest contours and attempting to make sense of it at a key moment of transition. In terms of feminist writing on cinema, there is nobody else in de Lauretis's league." --B. Ruby Rich, author of Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement"De Lauretis's work is stimulating, innovative, and groundbreaking. Readers from a wide range of audiences will be grateful to have in a single volume the works of one of the most important feminist theorists working today." --Judith Mayne, Distinguished Humanities Professor, French and women's studies, Ohio State University
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University of Illinois Press The Task of Cultural Critique
Book SynopsisA bold and compelling remapping of contemporary cultural critiqueTrade Review"A valuable and timely critique of the political bankruptcy and logical manipulations of many influential contemporary theories that continue to have a stranglehold on Truth in the academic and cultural marketplace."--Science and Society"A stimulating, path-breaking text that stands out as both an anti-text in the arena of cultural studies and as a classic Marxist analysis of the field of cultural critique. It will explode the field."--Peter McLaren, author of Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution"This powerful book confirms that Teresa L. Ebert is one of the most significant Marxist theorists currently writing about the humanities."--Barbara Foley, author of Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New NegroTable of ContentsPreface: The Critique of Interpretive Reason ixPART 1 ANATOMY OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL CRITIQUE1. The Spectral Concrete 3 2. The Abstract of Transformative Critique 27 3. Desiring Surfaces 46PART 2 THE WORK OF CRITIQUE4. Affective Pedagogy and Feminist Critique 69 5. Chick Lit: "Not Your Mother's Romance Novels" 97 6. Red Love 118 7. Globalization, the "Multitude," and Cynical Critique 134 8. Reading Ideology: Marx, de Man, and Critique 169 Coda: Reclaiming Totality 195 Bibliography 197 Index 211
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University of Illinois Press Radical Sisters
Book SynopsisRadical Sisters offers a fresh exploration of the ways that 1960s political movements shaped local, grassroots feminism in Washington, D.C. Rejecting notions of a universal sisterhood, Anne M. Valk argues that activists periodically worked to bridge differences for the sake of alleviating women''s plight, even while maintaining distinct political bases. While most historiography on the subject tends to portray the feminist movement as deeply divided over issues of race, Valk presents a more nuanced account, showing feminists of various backgrounds both coming together to promote a notion of 'sisterhood' and being deeply divided along the lines of class, race, and sexuality.Trade Review Winner of the Richard L. Wentworth Prize in American History, 2009. "Through meticulous historical exploration of women's political activism in Washington, D.C., Valk provides a nuanced analysis of how the synergistic relationships among multiple social movements and the women who moved among them produced radical feminist policies."--Women's Review of Books"Valk's study of women's political activism in Washington, D.C., offers new ways to think about the various organizations that women formed in the 1960s and 1970s. . . .Beautifully organized. . . . Ambitious in scope, rich in detail, but well worth the effort required to absorb its many insights."--Journal of American History"This book provides a crucial new perspective on women's activism and on social activism in general. It is a terrific and highly readable addition to the historiography of feminism, and will be welcome to teachers and students alike."--H-Urban"Valk's in-depth analysis provides a new, more nuanced take on the era. Recommended."--Choice“Carefully argued and well-documented.”--Oral History Review“Poignantly and powerfully points to the limits of and opportunities for women’s activism across race and social class.”--NWSA Journal"[An] important and exciting new work."--Journal of Southern History"Bravely enters the fray in continuing to document and weave together the analytical threads of the 1960s and 1970s social movements."--American Historical Review "A compelling account of the interactions between grassroots movements advocating for the rights of women and African Americans in Washington, DC in the 1960s and 1970s. Through vivid and detailed descriptions of the fight for welfare rights and reproductive control, and against homophobia and sexual violence, Valk's cultural history provides a welcome relief from the theorizing that has tended to dominate academic discussion of feminism in recent years."--Journal of American Studies "An important, well-researched, and well-balanced study that should appeal to scholars in many disciplines."--Journal of African American History "A must read for anyone seeking a full understanding of second-wave feminism. Radical Sisters is the first to thoroughly examine the fruitful (yet often divisive) relationships between women's liberation, the black freedom struggle, and anti-poverty activism. Valk's graceful prose complements this comprehensively researched, convincingly argued, and richly detailed study of how movements for black liberation and economic justice shaped local, grass-roots feminism in Washington, D.C. An ideal book for history, sociology, and women's studies courses."--Susan M. Hartmann, author of The Other Feminists: Activists in the Liberal Establishment
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University of Illinois Press Making Feminist Politics
Book SynopsisApplying feminist thinking to labor studies in a global contextTrade Review"Making Feminist Politics is empirically rich and analytically nuanced. I do not know of another book with this breadth of focus. Ranging from the family to global governance and from internal politics in an international union to coalition-building at the World Social Forum, this is fascinating material."--Catherine Eschle, coauthor of Making Feminist Sense of the Global Justice Movement"This is a book that has been needed for a long time. Rarely have I seen an analysis of women's roles in contemporary union organizing placed in an international context."--Nancy A. Naples, author of Feminism and Method: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, and Activist Research"A compelling hundred-plus year history of organizing by union women within and across unions and borders."--Labor Studies JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Abbreviations ix 1. Feminist Politics and Transnational Labor Movements 1 2. Sexual Politics, Activism, and Everyday Life 24 3. Sexual Politics, Labor, and the Family 47 4. Political Spaces: Centers, Conferences, and Campaigns 67 5. Feminist Politics in International Labor 87 6. Women's Activism in the International Metalworkers' Federation 108 7. Another World Is Possible for Women, If ... 125 8. Conclusion: The Future of Feminist Politics in Global Union Movements 139 Notes 147 References 153 Index 177
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University of Illinois Press Transformation Now Toward a PostOppositional
Book SynopsisIn this lively, thought-provoking study, AnaLouise Keating writes in the traditions of radical U.S. women-of-color feminist/womanist thought and queer studies, inviting us to transform how we think about identity, difference, social justice and social change, metaphysics, reading, and teaching. Through detailed investigations of women of color theories and writings, indigenous thought, and her own personal and pedagogical experiences, Keating develops transformative modes of engagement that move through oppositional approaches to embrace interconnectivity as a framework for identity formation, theorizing, social change, and the possibility of planetary citizenship. Speaking to many dimensions of contemporary scholarship, activism, and social justice work, Transformation Now! calls for and enacts innovative, radically inclusionary ways of reading, teaching, and communicating.Trade ReviewHonorable Mention, Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award, National Women's Studies Association (NWSA), 2014. "This truly unique and exciting study uses the writings of U.S. women of color to transform the ways in which we do academic and political work, positing a model of interconnectivity between the individual and the community as an alternative to identity politics. The book will appeal to intellectuals interested in social justice of any kind."--Suzanne Bost, author of Encarnación: Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature"Offers a thoughtful and provocative theoretical framework for moving through and beyond binary thinking and identity politics. . . . Those interested in social justice work will benefit from Keating's post-oppositional framework for bringing about social change. Highly Recommended."--Choice"Transformation Now! is an important addition to the body of visionary literature by feminists and womanists of color."--Women's Review of Books "Keating's text simultaneously offers a sense of urgency and hope, a utopian view paired with a sense of possibility and sometime even inevitability if her stance is adopted, considered, or even pushed against. Her desire for igniting a new conversation about making change is inspiring to practitioners looking for a new way to approach the challenges they face in and out of the classroom."--Journal of American Culture"AnaLouise Keating has presented us with what is perhaps the biggest innovation in critical theory in decades: a roadmap for moving beyond oppositional frameworks and the conflict/resistance-based models of social change and identity that they invariably produce. New vistas for deep and sustainable change open up on the heels of Transformation Now!"--Layli Maparyan, author of The Womanist Idea
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University of Illinois Press Dissident Friendships
Book SynopsisOften perceived as unbridgeable, the boundaries that divide humanity from itself--whether national, gender, racial, political, or imperial--are rearticulated through friendship. Elora Halim Chowdhury and Liz Philipose edit a collection of essays that express the different ways women forge hospitality in deference to or defiance of the structures meant to keep them apart. Emerging out of postcolonial theory, the works discuss instances when the authors have negotiated friendship''s complicated, conflicted, and contradictory terrain; offer fresh perspectives on feminists'' invested, reluctant, and selective uses of the nation; reflect on how the arts contribute to conversations about feminism, dissent, resistance, and solidarity; and unpack the details of transnational dissident friendships. Contributors: Lori E. Amy, Azza Basarudin, Himika Bhattacharya, Kabita Chakma, Elora Halim Chowdhury, Laurie R. Cohen, Esha Niyogi De, Eglantina Gjermeni, Glen Hill, Alka Kurian, Meredith MaddenTrade Review"Elora Halim Chowdhury and Liz Philipose's dazzling collection invites readers to consider the politics of feminist friendships, alliances, and collaborations. The volume explores the powerful ways that we can be transformed by our connections with others, and urges a new attention to feminist friendships as sites of generosity and empathy, alliance and resistance. Chowdhury and Philiopose's volume reminds us that friendship is fraught terrain, that we encounter each other across borders and boundaries of multiple kinds, and that the language of friendship can be co-opted by discourses of neoliberalism and imperialism. Yet their contributors urge us to continue to dream of the promise of connection, consciousness, and transformation that dissident friendships make possible."--Jennifer Nash, author of The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography "Rejuvenating our expectations of the most commonplace of human relations, Dissident Friendships challenges us to politicize that which is either overlooked or dismissed by more mainstream academic investigations. The intricate, and compassionate, analyses of friendship presented in these pages leave us renewed and provide an energizing vision for Gender Studies scholarship, social transformation and productive solidarities."--Shefali Chandra, author of The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India "Dissident Friendships is a significant transdisciplinary intervention that engages seriously with the meanings and possibilities of transformative feminist praxis in the face of the contradictions and complicities produced by neoliberalism, militarism, imperialism, humanism, and peace-building initiatives. Together, the contributors not only advance critical conversations about the work of affect in transnational solidarities and alliances; they also grapple in rich ways with the theoretical, methodological, and political complexities that are co-constitutive of the labor of dreaming, living, sustaining, and remaking epistemic friendships and communities across borders."--Richa Nagar, author of Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism"A timely collection."--Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual"Vivid, clear, diverse, and creative, the essays in this volume demonstrate the tenacity of emotional relationalities and agnostic attachments, dissident friendships that can help redefine our connections amid the nefarious intricacies of power relations."--Signs
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University of Illinois Press Splattered Ink
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCo-winner, Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women's Studies, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), 2016 "This significant addition to the scholarship on postfeminism provocatively and powerfully reads a too-often-overlooked category of print fiction. Splattered Ink vividly addresses the 'dark side' of postfeminism, generating a sturdy, supple analytic frame for female-authored, often avidly female-consumed books about women's victimization and vulnerability that belie postfeminism's customary preference for stock themes of empowerment and resilience and affective investment in the sanguine and upbeat."--Diane Negra, author of What a Girl Wants? Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism"Whitney does a great job of moving back and forth from the specific to the general throughout the manuscript, which makes for a great read and a strong and persuasive argument."--Astrid Henry, coauthor of Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements"Whitney engagingly extends the contemporary female Gothic canon into the 21st Century."--Helene Meyers, author of Femicidal Fears: Narratives of the Female Gothic Experience
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University of Illinois Press Ecological Borderlands
Book SynopsisEnvironmental practices among Mexican American woman have spurred a reconsideration of ecofeminism among Chicana feminists. Christina Holmes examines ecological themes across the arts, Chicana activism, and direct action groups to reveal how Chicanas can craft alternative models for ecofeminist processes. Holmes revisits key debates to analyze issues surrounding embodiment, women's connections to nature, and spirituality's role in ecofeminist philosophy and practice. By doing so, she challenges Chicanas to escape the narrow frameworks of the past in favor of an inclusive model of environmental feminism that alleviates Western biases. Holmes uses readings of theory, elaborations of ecological narratives in Chicana cultural productions, histories of human and environmental rights struggles in the Southwest, and a description of an activist exemplar to underscore the importance of living with decolonializing feminist commitment in body, nature, and spirit.Trade ReviewHolmes offers us new ways to consider what she calls performative ecological intersubjectivities that emerge from Chicana and Mexican American women's creative thinking, art-making, and spirituality, as well as from their commitments to social and ecological justice.--Irene Lara, coeditor of Fleshing the Spirit: Spirituality and Activism in Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous Women's LivesThis brilliant, accessible, and complex intervention should be read not just by those interested in environmentalism and feminism, but by all transnational, decolonizing, and materialist thinkers and doers, whether scholars, students, or activists.--Noel Sturgeon, author of Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Natural
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University of Illinois Press Football and Manliness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What does the NFL have to do with the rise of Donald Trump? Thomas Oates' expansive and readable book provides a riveting and often surprising answer to this question. This vital account of the racist and masculinist populism that is enabled--and occasionally constrained--through the culture of professional football is a must read for scholars and fans alike."--Samantha King, author of Pink Ribbons, Inc: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy "Oates offers clear arguments regarding ideologies of masculinity, race, gender, and sexuality; all chapters work with and build on each other leading to a coherent, all-encompassing argument. . . . Recommended."--Choice "Engaging, thoughtful, and timely, Football and Manliness moves the conversation beyond the gridiron to spotlight the ways that football shapes our collective understanding of masculinity and its implications within the broader social and economic arenas."--David J. Leonard, author of After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness "Oates compellingly demonstrates the worthiness of the NFL as an urgent and productive site of scholarly inquiry within cultural studies."--Lateral "Readers interested in feminist scholarship, sociology of sport, twenty-first-century masculinity, the black athlete, and popular culture will find this theoretical framework and authoritative analysis valuable."--Journal of Sport History
£18.99
University of Illinois Press In a Classroom of Their Own
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMichael Harrington Book Award, New Political Science Caucus of the American Political Science Association, 2019 "Lindsay’s book is a much-needed contribution to the examination of education for black children. . . . This book is a must-read for scholars interested in education, single-sex education, a history of intersectionality, and feminist politics." --Politics & Gender"A dispassionate and well-reasoned argument. None of the other books on the 'boy crisis in schools' or 'pushout of girls in schools' or 'myths about the black male crisis' deal in such a devoted fashion with both the case of all-black male schools and philosophy."--Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, author of Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability"Far-thinking and boldly argued, In a Classroom of Their Own explores the dilemmas faced by professionals and parents in search of equitable schooling for all students -- black boys and otherwise." --Ibram X. Kendi, Black Perspectives "In this brilliant study of the All-Black-Male-School Movement, Keisha Lindsay makes a critical contribution to contemporary policy debates, demonstrating how mistaken notions about the immediate grasp of oppressive experience lead social justice activists seriously astray, while also theorizing political means to alter institutional practices and structures of power toward more progressive ends."--Mary Hawkesworth, author of Embodied Power: Demystifying Disembodied Politics"For anyone who worries about the vexed relationship of race, gender, and justice in American schools, Keisha Lindsay's A Classroom of Their Own is a revelation. Lindsay offers an intersectional interpretation of the politics of all-male black schools and builds on the work of political theorists, activists, and education specialists to envision educational reforms that advance the well-being of all children."--Lawrie Balfour, author of Democracy's Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W. E. B. Du Bois"Keisha Lindsay’s In a Classroom of Their Own is the book on all black male schools (ABMSs) that I’ve been waiting for. The way she draws on intersectional analysis to illustrate how many black male supporters of ABMSs can articulate a simultaneously antifeminist and antiracist politics is as groundbreaking as it is sobering. Rather than dismissing intersectional analysis because of its potential to foster antifeminist, homophobic thought and practices, Lindsay identifies a more thoughtful, counterintuitive way to combat the race-gender achievement gap: form coalitions that interrogate the liberatory as well as less-than-liberatory potential of one’s own and others’ experience. In a Classroom of Their Own is the kind of critical analysis we need to ensure that today’s and future generations of black students can experience formal education that fosters self-determination and liberation."--Lance McCready, author of Making Space for Diverse Masculinities: Difference, Intersectionality, and Engagement in an Urban High School"Lindsay's engagement with this subject is nuanced, sensitive, and sophisticated." --Teachers College Record"Does an excellent job revealing the shortcomings surrounding current conversations regarding school reform." --Men and Masculinities
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University of Illinois Press Womens Activist Theatre in Jamaica and South
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Women's Activist Theatre in Jamaica and South Africa is a provocative ethnographic look at some of the most influential Black women’s theatre collectives in the world. Focusing on Jamaica and South Africa, Nicosia M. Shakes takes us on a journey into the world of theater for social change, emphasizing the ways that Black women have chosen use performance and embodiment to agitate for rights and speak out against multiple forms of violence. Engaging with performance as a public practice, Shakes demonstrates how the theater has been and continues to be a valuable political zone for Black women. Women's Activist Theatre in Jamaica and South Africa makes critical contributions to Black performance studies, Black Studies, theater studies and anthropology, and is a must read for anyone interested in the transnational politics of race, gender, and the political stage.”--Christen A. Smith, author of Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in BrazilTable of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Terms and Concepts Introduction: Race, Gender, Space “Mek Wi Choose fi Wiself”: Performing a Discourse of Justice in A Slice of Reality “The Wound is Still There”: Walk: South Africa and the Ontological Violence of Rape “Mi a go try release yu”: Mourning, Memory, and Violence in A Vigil for Roxie. “Alternative Spaces”: Black Self-Making, Space-Making, and the Work of Olive Tree Theatre Coda: Performing Activism across Space and Time Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Illinois Press Disrupting Colonial Pedagogies
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Inspired by bell hooks’ engaged and transgressive pedagogical discourses, this compelling, informative, ‘disruptive’ anthology captures the powerful reflections of feminist/womanist women of color as they interrogate toxic practices of the white academy in the South. The essays, which cover a rich variety of topics, are candid, brilliant, sobering, informative and inspirational. A must read for strategies to transform higher education during challenging times.”--Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman CollegeTable of ContentsForeword—AnaLouise Keating Acknowledgments Introduction—Nathalia E. Jaramillo and Jillian FordPart I: Disembodying Coloniality 1 Vivisection: Decolonizing Media’s Hidden Curriculum of Black Female Subjectivity through a Mash-Up of Visual Arts and Performance—Khalilah Ali 2 Breath, Spirit, and Energy Transmutation: Womanist Praxes to Counter Coloniality —Jillian FordPart II: Transforming Interventions 3 Discursive Colonialism of Hmong Women in Western Texts: Education, Representation, and Subjectivity—Leena N. Her 4 A Spiritual Infusion: An Anti-Colonial Feminist Approach to Academic Healing and Transformative Education—Angela Malone Cartwright 5 Healing the Soul—Curando el Alma—Na Sanna’e Ini’e Collective: A Feminist BIPOC Migrant Mixtec Serving Leadership and Research Initiative—Lorri J. Santamaría, Adriana Diego, Genevieve Flores-Haro, Silvia García Aguilár, Luisa León Salazár, Claudia Lozáno, Liliana Manriquez, and Alberta SalazárPart III: Undoing Command 6 #CrunkPublicHealth: Decolonial Feminist Praxes of Cultivating Liberatory and Transdisciplinary Learning, Research, and Action Spaces—LeConté J. Dill 7 Activating Space and Spirit: Meditations on Spiritually Sustaining Pedagogies—Sameena Eidoo 8 Dear Doctoral Student of Color: Academic Advising as Anti-Colonial Womanist Pedagogy and Theory—Patricia Krueger-Henney Contributors Index
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Indiana University Press The Female Face of Shame
Book SynopsisProvides an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective on the representations, theories, and powerful articulations of women's shameTrade ReviewThis is a wide-ranging collection analyzing literary representations of the links betwen women and shame. Johnson . . . and Moran . . . have taken pains to make the collection's range as inclusive as possible by including essays on modern and contemporary literary texts from many nations, read from a variety of identity positions (queer, disabled, and women of color are all represented). . . Recommended. * Choice *Johnson and Moran's volume is well presented, highly original and deeply moving. As well as providing a new theoretical framework in which women's literature and experience can be discussed, it is significant that this is not only an academic text, but also a source of comfort, understanding and hope to marked women who suffer the emotional anguish of shame within their societies. * Women's Studies International Forum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. Bodies of Shame 1. The Other Woman: Xenophobia and Shame \ Jocelyn Eighan 2. Rape, Trauma, and Shame in Samira Bellil's Dans l'enfer des tournantes \ Nicole Fayard 3. A Bloody Shame: Angela Carter's Shameless Postmodern Fairy Tales \ Suzette A. Henke 4. "Ecrire pour ne plus avoir honte": Christine Angot's and Annie Ernaux's Shameless Bodies \ Natalie Edwards 5. Interactions of Disability Pride and Shame \ Eliza ChandlerPart 2. Families of Shame 6. Colonial Shame in Michelle Cliff's Abeng \ Erica L. Johnson 7. Ancestors and Aliens: Queer Transformations and Affective Estrangement in Octavia Butler's Fiction \ Frann Michel 8. Daughters of the House of Shame \ Sinead McDermott 9. "Bound and Gagged with Thread": Shame, Female Development, and the Künstlerroman Tradition in Cora Sandel's The Alberta Trilogy \ Patricia Moran 10. Girl World and Bullying: Intersubjective Shame in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye \ Laura Martocci 11. Affliction in Jean Rhys and Simone Weil \ Tamar HellerPart 3. Nations of Shame 12. Coping with National Shames through Chinese Women's Bodies: Glorified or Mortified? \ Peiling Zhao 13. Shamed Bodies: Partition Violence and Women \ Namrata Mitra 14. Interrogating the Place of Lajja (Shame) in Contemporary Mauritius \ Karen Lindo 15. Shame and Belonging in Postcolonial Algeria \ Anna RoccaBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press The Female Face of Shame
Book SynopsisProvides an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective on the representations, theories, and powerful articulations of women's shameTrade ReviewThis is a wide-ranging collection analyzing literary representations of the links betwen women and shame. Johnson . . . and Moran . . . have taken pains to make the collection's range as inclusive as possible by including essays on modern and contemporary literary texts from many nations, read from a variety of identity positions (queer, disabled, and women of color are all represented). . . Recommended. * Choice *Johnson and Moran's volume is well presented, highly original and deeply moving. As well as providing a new theoretical framework in which women's literature and experience can be discussed, it is significant that this is not only an academic text, but also a source of comfort, understanding and hope to marked women who suffer the emotional anguish of shame within their societies. * Women's Studies International Forum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. Bodies of Shame 1. The Other Woman: Xenophobia and Shame \ Jocelyn Eighan 2. Rape, Trauma, and Shame in Samira Bellil's Dans l'enfer des tournantes \ Nicole Fayard 3. A Bloody Shame: Angela Carter's Shameless Postmodern Fairy Tales \ Suzette A. Henke 4. "Ecrire pour ne plus avoir honte": Christine Angot's and Annie Ernaux's Shameless Bodies \ Natalie Edwards 5. Interactions of Disability Pride and Shame \ Eliza ChandlerPart 2. Families of Shame 6. Colonial Shame in Michelle Cliff's Abeng \ Erica L. Johnson 7. Ancestors and Aliens: Queer Transformations and Affective Estrangement in Octavia Butler's Fiction \ Frann Michel 8. Daughters of the House of Shame \ Sinead McDermott 9. "Bound and Gagged with Thread": Shame, Female Development, and the Künstlerroman Tradition in Cora Sandel's The Alberta Trilogy \ Patricia Moran 10. Girl World and Bullying: Intersubjective Shame in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye \ Laura Martocci 11. Affliction in Jean Rhys and Simone Weil \ Tamar HellerPart 3. Nations of Shame 12. Coping with National Shames through Chinese Women's Bodies: Glorified or Mortified? \ Peiling Zhao 13. Shamed Bodies: Partition Violence and Women \ Namrata Mitra 14. Interrogating the Place of Lajja (Shame) in Contemporary Mauritius \ Karen Lindo 15. Shame and Belonging in Postcolonial Algeria \ Anna RoccaBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Sex Radical Cinema
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a blunt and passionate book about an absolutely essential topic of discussion. . . . Essential. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Recent Changes in the Representation of Sex and Politics in American Cinema1. The Sexuality of Minors: Family Values and Mysteries of Pedophilia2. Sex Trafficking Films, Or Taken for a Ride3. Sex and Anti-Militarism4. Interracial Sex and Architectures of American Horror5. Tim Burton's Films, Children, and PerversityConclusion: The Future, No FutureNotesBibliographyIndex
£46.55
Indiana University Press Sex Radical Cinema
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a blunt and passionate book about an absolutely essential topic of discussion. . . . Essential. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Recent Changes in the Representation of Sex and Politics in American Cinema1. The Sexuality of Minors: Family Values and Mysteries of Pedophilia2. Sex Trafficking Films, Or Taken for a Ride3. Sex and Anti-Militarism4. Interracial Sex and Architectures of American Horror5. Tim Burton's Films, Children, and PerversityConclusion: The Future, No FutureNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.94
Indiana University Press William James Pragmatism and American Culture
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Skillfully places James's work in cultural and historical context, richly exploring how pragmatism functioned and continues to function as a mode of American cultural rhetoric as the U.S. struggles to understand itself in the late 19th and early 20th centuries." -Shannon Sullivan, author of Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism "Continues and adds to a rich conversation among American philosophers concerning the origins of pragmatism and its possibilities for the future." -William Gavin, University of Southern MaineTable of ContentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Varieties of Pragmatism 2. Genealogies of Pragmatism 3. Pragmatism and the American Scene 4. The Gender of Pragmatism 5. Pragmatism Comes of Age Conclusion: Continuing the Argument NotesBibliographyIndex
£62.90
Indiana University Press William James Pragmatism and American Culture
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Skillfully places James's work in cultural and historical context, richly exploring how pragmatism functioned and continues to function as a mode of American cultural rhetoric as the U.S. struggles to understand itself in the late 19th and early 20th centuries." -Shannon Sullivan, author of Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism "Continues and adds to a rich conversation among American philosophers concerning the origins of pragmatism and its possibilities for the future." -William Gavin, University of Southern MaineTable of ContentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Varieties of Pragmatism 2. Genealogies of Pragmatism 3. Pragmatism and the American Scene 4. The Gender of Pragmatism 5. Pragmatism Comes of Age Conclusion: Continuing the Argument NotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Mothers Comrades and Outcasts in East German
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNot only is this monograph sure to become an essential resource for Germanists and historians of socialist media and East German culture, but it will also make rewarding reading for feminist scholars keen to explore the implications of the public/private dichotomy and possibilities for women's emancipation under socialism. With this well-researched and skillfully argued study, Creech undertakes the critical intervention of rescuing East German women's films from the dustbin of history. * Monatshefte *Mothers, Comrades, and Outcasts in East German Women's Film provides new readings on East German women's films and raises important questions about the cross-border continuities of feminist discourse played out on East German cinema screens. * Modern Language Review *Overall, Creech practices a form of critical film analysis that also attends to aesthetic and formal aspects. She combines thorough and insightful analysis with a rich catalogue of intertextual references to other films. The book is relevant for scholars and students of women's studies, film studies, and GDR studies. * German Studies Review *Creech has delivered a well-written and fascinating study of feminist films under state socialism. Her descriptions and analysis of the films are rich and convincingly argued in elegant prose. * H-German *With this well-researched and skillfully argued study, Creech undertakes the critical intervention of rescuing East German women's films from the dustbin of history. * Monatshefte *This volume is recommended to film enthusiasts and scholars as well as anyone interested in the history of DEFA and the complex relationship between cultural politics, feminism, and cinema. In her innovative and internationally oriented approach to DEFA, Creech demonstrates the enduring relevance of these films and their critical engagement with the feminine as mother, comrade, and outcast. * Feminist German Studies *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on TranslationIntroduction: Rescuing History from the Ruins1. Happily Ever After? The Emancipatory Politics of Female Desire in Lot's Wife2. The Lonely Woman? (Re)production and Female Desire in The Bicycle and On Probation3. Pleasure in Seeing Ourselves? All My Girls4. Real Women: Goodbye to Winter and the Documentary Women's FilmConclusion: After the FallDEFA FilmographyBibliographyIndex
£59.50
Indiana University Press Mothers Comrades and Outcasts in East German
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNot only is this monograph sure to become an essential resource for Germanists and historians of socialist media and East German culture, but it will also make rewarding reading for feminist scholars keen to explore the implications of the public/private dichotomy and possibilities for women's emancipation under socialism. With this well-researched and skillfully argued study, Creech undertakes the critical intervention of rescuing East German women's films from the dustbin of history. * Monatshefte *Mothers, Comrades, and Outcasts in East German Women's Film provides new readings on East German women's films and raises important questions about the cross-border continuities of feminist discourse played out on East German cinema screens. * Modern Language Review *Overall, Creech practices a form of critical film analysis that also attends to aesthetic and formal aspects. She combines thorough and insightful analysis with a rich catalogue of intertextual references to other films. The book is relevant for scholars and students of women's studies, film studies, and GDR studies. * German Studies Review *Creech has delivered a well-written and fascinating study of feminist films under state socialism. Her descriptions and analysis of the films are rich and convincingly argued in elegant prose. * H-German *With this well-researched and skillfully argued study, Creech undertakes the critical intervention of rescuing East German women's films from the dustbin of history. * Monatshefte *This volume is recommended to film enthusiasts and scholars as well as anyone interested in the history of DEFA and the complex relationship between cultural politics, feminism, and cinema. In her innovative and internationally oriented approach to DEFA, Creech demonstrates the enduring relevance of these films and their critical engagement with the feminine as mother, comrade, and outcast. * Feminist German Studies *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on TranslationIntroduction: Rescuing History from the Ruins1. Happily Ever After? The Emancipatory Politics of Female Desire in Lot's Wife2. The Lonely Woman? (Re)production and Female Desire in The Bicycle and On Probation3. Pleasure in Seeing Ourselves? All My Girls4. Real Women: Goodbye to Winter and the Documentary Women's FilmConclusion: After the FallDEFA FilmographyBibliographyIndex
£26.99
Indiana University Press Feminist Phenomenology Futures
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe authors of this compilation offer a phenomenological analysis that engages not only with previous works on feminist phenomenology, but also with works that have been challenged before by the feminist tradition, and with works that belong to other frameworks and disciplines. Anyone working on feminist theory, in general, will be greatly benefitted by exploring these works, and discussing their contributions. * Phenomenological Reviews *Table of ContentsA Feminist Phenomenology Manifesto / Helen A. FieldingIntroduction / Dorothea E. Olkowski and Helen A. FieldingI. The Future is Now1. Using Our Intuition: Creating the Future Phenomenological Plane of Thought / Dorothea E. Olkowski2. Just Throw Like a Bleeding Philosopher: Menstrual Pauses & Poses, BetwixtHypatia & Bhubaneswari, Half-Visible, Almost Illegible / Kyoo Lee3. Transformative Lines of Flight: From Deleuze to Masoch / Lyat Friedman4. Crafting Contingency / Rachel McCann II. Negotiating Futures5. Open Future, Regaining Possibility / Helen A. Fielding6. Of Women and Slaves / Debra Bergoffen7. Unhappy Speech, and Hearing Well: Contributions of Feminist Speech ActTheory to Feminist Phenomenology / Beata StawarskaIII. The Ontological Future 8. Adventures in the Hyperdialectic / Eva-Maria Simms9. The Murmuration of Birds: An Anishinaabe Ontology of Mnidoo-Worlding / Dolleen Tisawii'ashii Manning 10. Trans-subjectivity/Trans-objectivity / Christine DaigleIV. Our Future Body Images11. The 'Normal Abnormalities' of Disability and Aging: Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir / Gail Weiss12. The Trans-human Paradigm and the Meaning of Life / Christina Schües13. The Second Person Perspective in Narrative Phenomenology / Annemie Halsema and Jenny Slatman 14. Hannah Arendt and Pregnancy in the Public Sphere / Katy FulferV. Present and Future Selves15. Is Direct Perception Arrogant Perception?: Toward a Critical, Playful Intercorporeity / April N. Flakne16. Leadership-in-the-World through an Arendtian Lens / Rita Gardiner17. Identity-in-Difference to Avoid Indifference / Emily S. Lee18. What is Feminist Phenomenology? Looking Backwards and Into the Future / Silvia StollerIndex
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Indiana University Press Feminist Phenomenology Futures
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe authors of this compilation offer a phenomenological analysis that engages not only with previous works on feminist phenomenology, but also with works that have been challenged before by the feminist tradition, and with works that belong to other frameworks and disciplines. Anyone working on feminist theory, in general, will be greatly benefitted by exploring these works, and discussing their contributions. * Phenomenological Reviews *Table of ContentsA Feminist Phenomenology Manifesto / Helen A. FieldingIntroduction / Dorothea E. Olkowski and Helen A. FieldingI. The Future is Now1. Using Our Intuition: Creating the Future Phenomenological Plane of Thought / Dorothea E. Olkowski2. Just Throw Like a Bleeding Philosopher: Menstrual Pauses & Poses, BetwixtHypatia & Bhubaneswari, Half-Visible, Almost Illegible / Kyoo Lee3. Transformative Lines of Flight: From Deleuze to Masoch / Lyat Friedman4. Crafting Contingency / Rachel McCann II. Negotiating Futures5. Open Future, Regaining Possibility / Helen A. Fielding6. Of Women and Slaves / Debra Bergoffen7. Unhappy Speech, and Hearing Well: Contributions of Feminist Speech ActTheory to Feminist Phenomenology / Beata StawarskaIII. The Ontological Future 8. Adventures in the Hyperdialectic / Eva-Maria Simms9. The Murmuration of Birds: An Anishinaabe Ontology of Mnidoo-Worlding / Dolleen Tisawii'ashii Manning 10. Trans-subjectivity/Trans-objectivity / Christine DaigleIV. Our Future Body Images11. The 'Normal Abnormalities' of Disability and Aging: Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir / Gail Weiss12. The Trans-human Paradigm and the Meaning of Life / Christina Schües13. The Second Person Perspective in Narrative Phenomenology / Annemie Halsema and Jenny Slatman 14. Hannah Arendt and Pregnancy in the Public Sphere / Katy FulferV. Present and Future Selves15. Is Direct Perception Arrogant Perception?: Toward a Critical, Playful Intercorporeity / April N. Flakne16. Leadership-in-the-World through an Arendtian Lens / Rita Gardiner17. Identity-in-Difference to Avoid Indifference / Emily S. Lee18. What is Feminist Phenomenology? Looking Backwards and Into the Future / Silvia StollerIndex
£31.50
Indiana University Press Happily Ever After The Romance Story in Popular
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Roach's Happily Ever After is without a doubt a methodological groundbreaker, and its effects will hopefully resonate throughout popular culture studies, fandom studies, and future approaches to other genres of popular fiction." * The Journal of Popular Culture *Roach's attempt to do emotional justice to the genre should satisfy academics and fans alike. -- Publishers WeeklyTable of Contentsi carry your heart with me(i carry it in by E.E. CummingsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Journey into Romancelandia1. Find Your One True Love: Book Lovers and the Romance Story2. Going Native: When the Academic is (also) the Fan3. Notes from the Imagination: Reading Romance Writing: Wherein Catherine Roach and Catherine LaRoche, in Feisty Dialogue, Comment upon LaRoche's Fiction 4. Sex: Good Girls Do, Or, Romance Fiction as Sex-Positive Feminist Mommy Porn5. Notes from the Field: Romance Writers of America6. Love: Bondage and the Conundrum of Erotic Love7. Notes from the Writing: "Between the Sheets" and Other Moments toward Romance Novelist8. Happily Ever After: The Testament of Erotic FaithEpilogue: Lessons from Romancing the AcademicNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Refiguring the Ordinary
Book SynopsisIf social, political, and material transformation is to have a lasting impact on individuals and society, it must be integrated within ordinary experience. This book examines the ways in which individuals' bodies, habits, environments, and abilities function as horizons that underpin their understandings of the ordinary.Trade ReviewIn the last decade alone, how many have perceived the "ordinary" has drastically shifted. September 11th, if it can be evoked without vulgar sentimentality, brought a fresh worldview to many around the globe, most significantly to Americans and those living in the occupied Middle East. In literary circles, Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking has caused more than a few thoughtful readers to consider that what we believe is pedestrian, everyday, and commonplace may instantly vanish. Even a high school student forced to read Kafka's The Metamorphosis has realized that in an instant, life can be radically altered. "Ordinary" is simply not as we believe it to be, and exists on a spectrum of experience we often fail to consider. Gail Weiss's deeply engaging Refiguring the Ordinary comes on the heels of a remarkable decade and at a time when authenticity seems to be quite a buzzword in a world of MySpace—a space you can personalize, show off the essence of who you are—and YouTube, which begs of you to "broadcast yourself." It's easy to understand the power of your own authenticity when we've all long been told that we—as feminists, women, oppressed minorities—have a right to our own voices and stories, that we are the ones who can best speak our truth to power. But what if authenticity itself is merely existentialism gone wrong, subjective judgments that still have little bearing on reality? How are we to be the judges of our own pure interpretations? —Refiguring the Ordinary repositions the ideas of existentialism and begins at a departure from the binary of the self and other in Western philosophy, arguing that perhaps this dichotomy is a lie. Weiss relies on a wide range of philosophers, from the rather anti-feminist Heidegger to Sartre to radical thinkers like Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler, one of the greatest living feminist philosophers of our time. Weiss's insistence to include a variety of perspectives is both a compliment to the intelligence of her assumed audience and a demonstration of her commitment to an inclusive academic investigation into the ordinary. Of particular interest to scholars and philosopher-activists alike is her entire section, multiple chapters, dedicated to deconstructing racist, classist, sexist, and otherwise oppressive behaviors often acted out of habit, cemented over time and difficult to name and alter, especially without the help of others. While a philosophy book that will surely end up in university courses, Weiss's pronouncements about the self, the other, and how we construct reality will no doubt contribute to feminist philosophical theory in a greater way. When taken with healthy doses of history as a foundation to understanding her work, Weiss's explanation and subsequent reshaping of the ordinary becomes quite digestible and even a bit delicious. This isn't a book for everyday leisure reading, but it is certainly recommended for any combination of curious philosopher, cross-disciplinary psychologist, radical feminist, and communication theorist among us. -- Brittany Shoot * Feminist Review *Weiss (George Washington Univ.) insightfully bridges phenomenology and critical theory in a way that leads to a mutual enrichment of the two fields. Her study renders hallmark phenomenological terms, such as "horizon" and "world," more concrete by insisting on the need to supplement their spatial and temporal aspects with the social and political determinations of the most ordinary human behavior, including perception and habituation. Concomitantly, Weiss not only constructs intricate phenomenological descriptions of experiences—ranging from life in the city to motherhood—but also suggests that the lived reality of oppression be understood on the model of sedimentation that sets rigid parameters for and normalizes the everyday modes of perceiving and understanding this reality. A carefully elaborated notion of indeterminacy, which pertains to any horizon or perceptual ground, is at work throughout the book, joining the stricture of sedimentation in a productive tension. Although the author does not endorse a naļve perspectivalism with its prescription to multiply one's horizons and standpoints in order to break free of sedimented experiences, she argues that the inherent indeterminacy of the ordinary itself, or the possibility of disruption it harbors, constitutes human experience. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers. —ChoiceWeiss (George Washington Univ.) insightfully bridges phenomenology and critical theory in a way that leads to a mutual enrichment of the two fields. Her study renders hallmark phenomenological terms, such as "horizon" and "world," more concrete by insisting on the need to supplement their spatial and temporal aspects with the social and political determinations of the most ordinary human behavior, including perception and habituation. . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers.February 2009 * Choice *While a philosophy book that will surely end up in university courses, Weiss's pronouncements about the self, the other, and how we construct reality will no doubt contribute to feminist philosophical theory in a greater way. When taken with healthy doses of history as a foundation to understanding her work, Weiss's explanation and subsequent reshaping of the ordinary becomes quite digestible and even a bit delicious. . . . [R]ecommended for any combination of curious philosopher, cross-disciplinary psychologist, radical feminist, and communication theorist among us.November 6, 2008 -- Brittany Shoot * Feminist Review *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. Figuring the Ground1. Context and Perspective2. Ambiguity, Absurdity, and Reversibility: Three Responses to IndeterminacyPart 2. Narrative Horizons3. Reading/Writing between the Lines4. The Body as a Narrative HorizonPart 3. (Re)Grounding the Figure5. Can an Old Dog Learn New Tricks? Habitual Horizons in James, Bourdieu, and Merleau-Ponty6. Imagining the HorizonPart 4. Urban Perspectives7. City Limits8. Urban FleshPart 5. Constraining Horizons9. Death and the Other: Rethinking Authenticity10. Challenging Choices11. Mothers/Intellectuals: Alterities of a Dual IdentityNotesBibliographyIndex
£17.99
Indiana University Press Racism and Sexual Oppression in AngloAmerica
Book SynopsisAn impassioned history of the politics of oppressionTrade Review[This book] is a powerful fact-based philosophical epic of oppression in Anglo-America along its two central axes—racism and sexuality.Vol. 23.4 2009 -- Cynthia Willett * Emory University *. . . an important book on the study of race and sexuality studies. . . . By using definition, theory, and discussion of 'normality' and 'abnormality' as put forth by Foucault, McWhorter is able to highlight issues of sexual discrimination within the Anglo-American world. This text offers many insights into the topic of homophobia and discrimination in the US. . . . Highly recommended.September 2009 * Choice *McWhorter's expanded conception of racism is a path-breaking and far-reaching contribution to critical race theory, disability theory, queer theory, and Foucault scholarship that complicates some of the most accepted understandings of these fields and shows how these understandings have at different times, in unexpected ways, enhanced relations of subjection, domination, and control. * Hypatia *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Two Great Dangers1. Racism, Race, Race War: In Search of Conceptual Clarity2. A Genealogy of Modern Racism, Part 1: The White Man Cometh3. A Genealogy of Modern Racism, Part 2: From Black Lepers to Idiot Children4. Scientific Racism and the Threat of Sexual Predation5. Managing Evolution: Race Betterment, Race Purification, and the American Eugenics Movement6. Nordics Celebrate the Family7. (Counter) Remembering Racism: An Insurrection of Subjugated KnowledgesNotesWorks CitedIndex
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University of Notre Dame Press Music Postcolonialism and Gender
Book SynopsisA study of the construction of Irish national identity focusing on Irish music and the colonial relationship between Ireland and EnglandTrade Review“Leith Davis’ book . . . is, ambitiously, ‘concerned with how the discourse of music became increasingly gendered in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as gender was utilized variously in the representation of both nationalist and colonialist formations.’ . . . Davis traces these knotted lines of resistance and hegemony through eight cogent and convincing essays, each one studying a particular moment in Irish musical discourse.” —British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin and Review“Davis writes very much as a literary and cultural critic, not as a musicologist, but hers is a stimulating interdisciplinary study, illustrated with engravings and sheet music that demonstrate how the association of Ireland and orality grew out of print culture.” —Studies in English Literature"Leith Davis has written an exemplary, original, and sophisticated book that displays both a wide and deep knowledge of the discourse about Irish music from its earliest beginnings and a complete mastery of postcolonial theory as it relates to Irish studies." —Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, University of Texas at Austin"This is an original, well-written book that will be of great interest to scholars in Irish studies, particularly the many working within postcolonial and feminist theoretical frameworks." —Mary Jean Corbett, Miami University
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University of Notre Dame Press For the Joy Set Before Us
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University of Notre Dame Press The Rights of Women
Book SynopsisErika Bachiochi offers an original look at the development of feminism in the United States, advancing a vision of rights that rests upon our responsibilities to others.In The Rights of Women, Erika Bachiochi explores the development of feminist thought in the United States. Inspired by the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Bachiochi presents the intellectual history of a lost vision of women's rights, seamlessly weaving philosophical insight, biographical portraits, and constitutional law to showcase the once predominant view that our rights properly rest upon our concrete responsibilities to God, self, family, and community.Bachiochi proposes a philosophical and legal framework for rights that builds on the communitarian tradition of feminist thought as seen in the work of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Jean Bethke Elshtain. Drawing on the insight of prominent figures such as Sarah Grimké, Frances Willard, Florence Kelley, Betty Friedan, Pauli Murray, Ruth BTrade Review"Examining Wollstonecraft’s philosophical writings on sex, sexuality, and motherhood—as a lens through which to view the history of feminism in the United States—Bachiochi argues that between the 19th and 21st centuries, too many American women abandoned Wollstonecraftian ideals of virtue and fairness, replacing them with the self-defeating ideology (and various waves) of progressive feminism." —National Review"The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision . . . portrays women as increasingly disadvantaged by principles that became prominent in the 20th century's conception of liberty. Rather than merely liberating, [Bachiochi] argues, the industrial and sexual revolutions have disrupted longstanding dynamics that allow the sexes to pursue authentic freedom; that is, the freedom to pursue virtue in familial and social relationships." —FoxNews“Part history, part legal theory, and part political philosophy, The Rights of Women provides a compelling contribution to feminist dialogue, both applauding the gains and critiquing the missteps made during women’s quest for advancement. . . . Bachiochi offers a judicious analysis of women’s history that informs her refreshing portrait of dignitarian feminism.” —Law & Liberty"Along with the maternal accompaniment of Our Lady, the Wollstonecraft-Glendon understanding of women’s rights—a truly ennobling and liberating moral vision—reimagines feminism, and Bachiochi’s book brilliantly explains how that understanding evolved." —National Catholic Register"Bachiochi offers us a cohesive historical lens through which to adopt Wollstonecraft’s program of virtue today, even as we already see it bearing fruit in households that we admire. 'Without that intentional human development properly prioritized in the life of the home,' Bachiochi asserts, 'persons (and markets) [will] do little good outside of it.'" —The Interim"The purpose of freedom is for human flourishing, not flouting the virtues, as this excellent work so clearly demonstrates." —Catholic Medical Quarterly"Bachiochi’s work is a call to reimagine feminism. What if men and women pursued equality, not as self-destructive license, but as freedom for the sake of human excellence? " —National Catholic Register"At the heart of Erika Bachiochi’s The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision is the assertion that human beings are not defined by autonomy but rather by relations of dependency and obligation." —The Catholic World Report"Bachiochi takes her readers on a thorough and scholarly examination of leading feminist thought as it developed through the past 200-plus years, through the lens of early feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft. . . . Let us hope that Bachiochi’s vision is realizable, for it would certainly be the beginning of a more humane world, for both sexes." —The University Bookman"In Bachiochi’s book, we see Wollstonecraft’s legacy percolate through the 19th-century American women’s movement—in which the tension between individualism and life in common hums." —UnHerd"Erika Bachiochi, in her book The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, offers a memorial to Wollstonecraft, an effort to reclaim the moral vision of this early feminist for our time. . . . I earnestly commend Bachiochi’s book to a wide audience and to feminists of every stripe." —Marginalia"Rights of Women doesn’t claim to be a conservative book, but it renews a challenge that cuts to the heart of the conservative movement." —The American Conservative"Erika Bachiochi’s The Rights of Women is the most impressive anti-abortion book to appear in years." —First Things"Now and then a book comes along that changes the way one thinks about the world. Erika Bachiochi's The Rights of Women is one of these books." —Modern Age"Women’s (and men’s) freedom is linked to the response to the question, what are freedoms for? According to Bachiochi’s account, freedoms are rooted neither in the market, nor in power clashes or gender antagonism, but in a heritage that celebrates everyday human flourishing." —Church, Communication, and Culture"Just as Wollstonecraft challenged prevalent mistakes in thinking about the rights of women, so too Bachiochi is uprooting mainstream myths about what women’s wellbeing and success require today. The effort of students and teachers to read her work carefully will be well-rewarded." —American Journal of JurisprudenceTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Moral Vision 2. Men, Marriage, Law, and Government 3. The Young Republic and the Unequal Virtues of the Agrarian Home 4. Women’s Suffrage, Rational Souls, Sexed Bodies, And the Ties that Bind 5. The Industrial Revolution and the Debate Between Abstract Rights and Concrete Duties 6. The “Feminine Mystique” and Human Work 7. Sex Role Stereotypes and the Successful Quest for Equal Citizenship Status 8. Caring for Dependency in the Logic of the Market 9. Sexual Asymmetry, American Law, and the Call for a Renewed Family Ecology 10. Reimagining Feminism Today in Search of Human Excellence
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University of Notre Dame Press Religion and Broken Solidarities
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This book is a socially committed intellectual engagement with difficult solidarities and the way to reimagine them. It is precisely through the combination of superb scholarly research and sound caretaking that the authors help us have hope for the future by confronting the never-ending triumphalist discourses of modern coloniality.” —Santiago Slabodsky, author of Decolonial JudaismTable of ContentsIntroduction by Atalia Omer and Joshua Lupo 1. Broken Solidarities: Transnational Feminism, Islam, and “the Master’s House” by Perin Gürel 2. The Women’s March: A Reflection on Feminist Solidarity, Intersectional Critique, and Muslim Women’s Activism by Juliane Hammer 3. Transgressive Geography and Litmus Test Solidarity by Atalia Omer and Ruth Carmi 4. “To Confound White Christians”: Thinking with Claude McKay about Race, Catholic Enchantment, and Secularism by Brenna Moore 5. Seeing Solidarity by Melani McAlister
£70.55
University of Notre Dame Press Religion and Broken Solidarities
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This book is a socially committed intellectual engagement with difficult solidarities and the way to reimagine them. It is precisely through the combination of superb scholarly research and sound caretaking that the authors help us have hope for the future by confronting the never-ending triumphalist discourses of modern coloniality.” —Santiago Slabodsky, author of Decolonial JudaismTable of ContentsIntroduction by Atalia Omer and Joshua Lupo 1. Broken Solidarities: Transnational Feminism, Islam, and “the Master’s House” by Perin Gürel 2. The Women’s March: A Reflection on Feminist Solidarity, Intersectional Critique, and Muslim Women’s Activism by Juliane Hammer 3. Transgressive Geography and Litmus Test Solidarity by Atalia Omer and Ruth Carmi 4. “To Confound White Christians”: Thinking with Claude McKay about Race, Catholic Enchantment, and Secularism by Brenna Moore 5. Seeing Solidarity by Melani McAlister
£25.19
Pennsylvania State University Press Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt
Book SynopsisThis work provides feminist interpretations of the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt.Trade Review“That Hannah Arendt should have become a provocative subject for feminists is startling, so this collection can be enjoyed both for its fine quality and as a historical phenomenon, one that reveals as much about the concerns of contemporary feminism as about Hannah Arendt.”—Elizabeth Young-Bruehl,Author of Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World
£34.16
University of Texas Press Bridging How Gloria Anzald250as Life and Work
Book SynopsisThirty-two wide-ranging voices pay tribute to the late Gloria Anzaldúa, the beloved poet and fiction writer who redefined lesbian and Chicana/o identities for thousands of readers.Table of Contents Con profunda gratitud Building Bridges, Transforming Loss, Shaping New Dialogues: Anzaldúan Studies for the Twenty-First Century (AnaLouise Keating and Gloria González-López) I. The New Mestizas: "transitions and transformations" 1. Bridges of conocimiento: Una conversación con Gloria Anzaldúa (Lorena M. P. Gajardo) 2. A Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa Written from 30, Feet and 25 Years after Her "Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd-World Women Writers" (ariel robello) 3. Deconstructing the Immigrant Self: The Day I Discovered I Am a Latina (Anahí Viladrich) 4. My Path of Conocimiento: How Graduate School Transformed Me into a Nepantlera (Jessica Heredia) 5. Aprendiendo a Vivir/Aprendiendo a Morir (Norma Elia Cantú) 6. Making Face, Rompiendo Barreras: The Activist Legacy of Gloria E. Anzaldúa (Aída Hurtado) II. Exposing the Wounds: "You gave me permission to fly into the dark" 7. Anzaldúa, Maestra (Sebastián José Colón-Otero) 8. "May We Do Work That Matters": Bridging Gloria Anzaldúa across Borders (Claire Joysmith) 9. A Call to Action: Spiritual Activism . . . an Inevitable Unfolding (Karina L. Céspedes) 10. Gloria Anzaldúa and the Meaning of Queer (Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba) 11. Breaking Our Chains: Achieving Nos/otras Consciousness (Lei Zhang) 12. Conocimiento and Healing: Academic Wounds, Survival, and Tenure (Gloria González-López) III. Border Crossings: Inner Struggles, Outer Change 13. Letters from Nepantla: Writing through the Responsibilities and Implications of the Anzaldúan Legacy (Michelle Kleisath) 14. Challenging Oppressive Educational Practices: Gloria Anzaldúa on My Mind, in My Spirit (Betsy Eudey) 15. Living Transculturation: Confessions of a Santero Sociologist (Glenn Jacobs) 16. Acercándose a Gloria Anzaldúa to Attempt Community (Paola Zaccaria) 17. Learning to Live Together: Bridging Communities, Bridging Worlds (Shelley Fisher Fishkin) 18. Risking the Vision, Transforming the Divides: Nepantlera Perspectives on Academic Boundaries, Identities, and Lives (AnaLouise Keating) IV. Bridging Theories: Intellectual Activism with/in Borders 19. "To live in the borderlands means you" (Mariana Ortega) 20. A Modo de Testimoniar: Borderlands, Papeles, and U.S. Academia (EstheR Cuesta) 21. On Borderlands and Bridges: An Inquiry into Gloria Anzaldúa's Methodology (Jorge Capetillo-Ponce) 22. For Gloria, Para Mi (Mary Catherine Loving) 23. Chicana Feminist Sociology in the Borderlands (Elisa Facio and Denise A. Segura) 24. Embracing Borderlands: Gloria Anzaldúa and Writing Studies (Andrea A. Lunsford) V. Todas Somos Nos/otras: Toward a "Politics of Openness" 25. Hurting, Believing, and Changing the World: My Faith in Gloria Anzaldúa (Suzanne Bost) 26. Feels Like "Carving Bone": (Re)Creating the Activist-Self, (Re)Articulating Transnational Journeys, while Sifting through Anzaldúan Thought (Kavitha Koshy) 27. Shifting (Kelli Zaytoun) 28. "Darkness, My Night": The Philosophical Challenge of Gloria Anzaldúa's Aesthetics of the Shadow (María DeGuzmán) 29. The Simultaneity of Self- and Global Transformations: Bridging with Anzaldúa's Liberating Vision (Mohammad H. Tamdgidi) 30. For Gloria Anzaldúa . . . Who Left Us Too Soon (Gloria Steinem) 31. She Eagle: For Gloria Anzaldúa (Becky Thompson) Notes Glossary Works Cited Published Writings by Gloria E. Anzaldúa Contributors' Biographies Index
£21.84
University of Washington Press Firebrand Feminism
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University of Washington Press Firebrand Feminism
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University of Washington Press Molecular Feminisms
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A timely and welcome intervention is Deboleena Roy's book, Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab. Thinking about the connections and potential created between molecular biology and feminism, and philosophy and science, Roy thinks with philosophy [and] situates her work, which she names molecular feminisms, in the ontological and ethical reorientations made possible by thinking matter, ethics, and knowledge-making practices together." * Hypatia Reviews Online *
£110.48
University of Washington Press Unshaved
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] thorough and revelatory treatment of an underexamined aspect of feminism and body politics." * Publishers Weekly *"Engaging, elucidating and occasionally lots of fun." * Shelf Awareness *"The reach and depth of the content and theoretical orientations of this book, written in an accessible way, provides important understanding of the social context in which people—especially women—make personal choices. It also offers an important exploration of the power relations operating within these “choices.” In exploring how power and resistance operate through body hair, showcasing those women who on their bodies or in their art offer forms of resistance, Unshaved offers an important read." * Women's Reproductive Health *
£110.48
University of Washington Press Unshaved
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] thorough and revelatory treatment of an underexamined aspect of feminism and body politics." * Publishers Weekly *"Engaging, elucidating and occasionally lots of fun." * Shelf Awareness *"The reach and depth of the content and theoretical orientations of this book, written in an accessible way, provides important understanding of the social context in which people—especially women—make personal choices. It also offers an important exploration of the power relations operating within these “choices.” In exploring how power and resistance operate through body hair, showcasing those women who on their bodies or in their art offer forms of resistance, Unshaved offers an important read." * Women's Reproductive Health *
£29.66
University of Washington Press Bits of Life
Book SynopsisSince World War II, the biological and technological have been fusing and merging in new ways, resulting in the loss of a distinction between the two. This title deals with the fusion of biological and technological power and the entanglements of biocultures.Trade Review"..[Mark[s] the profound theoretical shifts that accompany new configurations of life and the material in a posthuman age. . . . [Provides] succinct and rich overviews of where feminist studies, especially feminist technoscience studies, stands today." * Signs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Bits of Life: An Introduction / Anneke Smelik and Nina Lykke PART 1. HISTORIES AND GENEALOGIES 1. Feminist Cultural Studies of Technoscience: Portrait of an Implosion / Nina Lykke 2. Roots and Routes: The Making of Feminist Cultural Studies of Technoscience / Maureen McNeil 3. "There Are Always More Things Going On Than You Thought!" Methodologies as Thinking Technologies: Interview with Donna Haraway / Nina Lykke, Randi Markussen, and Finn Olesen PART 2. RECONFIGURED BODIES 4. Fluid Ecologies: Changing Hormonal Systems of Embodied Difference / Celia Roberts 5. Parenthood and Kinship in IVF for Humans and Animals: On Traveling Bits of Life in the Age of Genetics / Amade M'Charek and Grietje Keller 6. From Rambo Sperm to Egg Queens: Two Versions of Lennart Nilsson's Film on Human Reproduction / Mette Bryld and Nina Lykke 7. Screening the Gene: Hollywood Cinema and the Genetic Imaginary / Jackie Stacey PART 3. REMEDIATED BODIES 8. MyLifeBits: The Computer as Memory Machine / Jose van Dijck 9. Tunnel Vision: Inner, Outer, and Virtual Space in Science Fiction Films and Medical Documentaries / Anneke Smelik 10. What if Frankenstein('s Monster) Was a Girl?: Reproduction and Subjectivity in the Digital Age / Jenny Sunden PART 4. PHILOSOPHIES OF LIFE 11. Living in a Posthumanist Material World: Lessons from Schrodinger's Cat / Karen Barad 12. The Politics of Life as Bios/Zoe / Rosi Braidotti Bibliography Contributors Index
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MV - University of Washington Press Power Interrupted
Trade Review"In the ardently thought-provoking and often stirring Power Interrupted, Falcón, a sociologist and assistant professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, sets out to reveal how feminist activists of color ‘advocate for a more comprehensive approach to understanding racism at the UN level’ by offering a candid and, at times, caustic critique of Western feminism as practiced within the UN." * National Political Science Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction | The Challenging Road to the Durban Conference 1. Race, Gender, and Geopolitics in the Establishment of the UN 2. UN Citizenship and Constellations of Human Rights 3. A Genealogy of World Conferences against Racism and the Progression of Intersectionality 4. Making the Intersectional Connections 5. Intersectionality as the New Universalism Appendix | Copy of the E-mail and Non-Paper Sent by the US Government to US NGOs during the Preparatory Period of the 2001 WCAR Notes Bibliography Index
£110.48
University of Washington Press Power Interrupted
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In the ardently thought-provoking and often stirring Power Interrupted, Falcón, a sociologist and assistant professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, sets out to reveal how feminist activists of color ‘advocate for a more comprehensive approach to understanding racism at the UN level’ by offering a candid and, at times, caustic critique of Western feminism as practiced within the UN." * National Political Science Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction | The Challenging Road to the Durban Conference 1. Race, Gender, and Geopolitics in the Establishment of the UN 2. UN Citizenship and Constellations of Human Rights 3. A Genealogy of World Conferences against Racism and the Progression of Intersectionality 4. Making the Intersectional Connections 5. Intersectionality as the New Universalism Appendix | Copy of the E-mail and Non-Paper Sent by the US Government to US NGOs during the Preparatory Period of the 2001 WCAR Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Figuring the Population Bomb
Book SynopsisTrade Review"McCann’s work is a masterly reading of sources, theory, and history. She employs a range of disciplinary tools and methods, thinking not only as a historian but also as a demographer, feminist theorist, and textual and cultural analyst." * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. Matters of Vital Importance: Demography and the Mid-Twentieth-Century Population Imaginary 2. Rereading Malthus: Population and Masculine Modernity 3. Narratives of Exclusion, Mechanisms of Inclusion: Demographic Boundary Work 4. Remaking Malthusian Couplings for the Contraceptive Age 5. Demographic Transitions and Modern Masculinities 6. “Second Sight” and “Fictitious Accuracy to the Numbers” Conclusion: Demographic Convictions and Sound Knowledge Notes References Index
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Chaucers Sexual Poetics
Book SynopsisA feminist study of Chaucer's poetry, this book shows how Chaucer correlates amatory acts with literary acts. The author suggests that gendered relations such as courtship, marriage and betrayal are central to an understanding of Chaucer's poetics.
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