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Book SynopsisA new theory of domesticity depicted through alternative homemakers.Trade ReviewIn Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman continues to perform the crucial task of challenging-in lucid, fervent prose-the "habitual, unthinking" conflations and repudiations which keep women, or the feminized, at the bottom of hierarchies of value. Using a refreshing range of sources, which includes queers, immigrants, and the homeless alongside the more usual "domestic" suspects, Fraiman sets forth a rethinking of domesticity's nature, purpose, location, and creators. It's a timely rethinking that we truly need now. -- Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts Extreme Domesticity brilliantly explores the homemaking practices that provide sustenance and shelter for the fierce and fragile lives of gender rebels and queer pioneers (even during times of homelessness). It is a lesson in how people find the tools for life-making amongst the ordinary and disregarded materials that surround them; and it is a dazzling excursion across dissident domesticities -- Ben Highmore, author of Ordinary Lives: Studies in the Everyday This spirited book rescues housekeeping from its presumed ideological trappings by bringing a host of marginalized subjects back into view. Susan Fraiman demonstrates domesticity's strong creative pull for many working-class, immigrant, queer, divorced, or homeless subjects. Carefully probing a diverse array of homemaking experiences, along with the distinct challenges, comforts, and compensations domestic life can bring, Fraiman honors the rich meanings of home for those too often denied it. A surprising and welcome book. -- Diana Fuss, author of The Sense of an Interior: Four Rooms and the Writers that Shaped Them Extreme Domesticity is a startlingly original work that not only offers a contemporary updating of feminist studies on domestic and sentimental fiction, but also establishes provocative new frameworks for understanding modern gender formations. A brilliant and important book! -- Thomas Foster, author of Transformations of Domesticity in Modern Women's Writing: Homelessness at HomeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Doing Domesticity 1. Shelter Writing: Desperate Housekeeping from Crusoe to Queer Eye 2. Behind the Curtain: Domestic Industry in Mary Barton 3. Domesticity Beyond Sentiment: Edith Wharton, Decoration, and Divorce 4. Bad Girls of Good Housekeeping: Dominique Browning and Martha Stewart 5. Undocumented Houses: Histories of Dislocation in Immigrant Fiction 6. Domesticity in Extremis: Homemaking by the Unsheltered Conclusion: Dwelling-in-Traveling, Traveling-in-Dwelling Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA new edition of the earthshaking work that exposed the subjugation of women in culture and life.Trade ReviewMillett's classic woke me up, changed my perception of women and myself, as it did for tens of thousands of American women when it first appeared. -- Leslie Crawford, "Kate Millett, the Ambivalent Feminist," Salon Sexual Politics dissected the beliefs, the cultural language, that supported sexual hierarchy. Millett's arguments cut through contemporary culture almost as surely as they did when written. In fact, it seems looking back to this old radicalism would help today's feminists to move forward. -- Katie Ryder, "Why Kate Millett Still Matters," Bookforum A passionate book by an acute literary analyst. New Yorker Supremely entertaining to read, brilliantly conceived, overwhelming in its arguments, breathtaking in its command of history and literature. New York Times A richly informative book. Washington Post Book World A well documented intellectual masterpiece. Pittsburgh Press [Millett] translates the war of the sexes from the language of nineteenth century bedroom farce into the raw images of guerilla warfare... Even more than a political system, our sexual order is a 'habit of mind and a way of life.' Millett's book may go far toward subverting it. TimeTable of ContentsForeword, by Catharine A. MacKinnon Introduction to the Illinois Paperback Introduction to the Touchstone Paperback Preface Part I. Sexual Politics 1. Instances of Sexual Politics 2. Theory of Sexual Politics Part II. Historical Background 3. The Sexual Revolution, First Phase: 1830-1930 4. The Counterrevolution: 1930-60 Part III. The Literary Reflection 5. D. H. Lawrence 6. Henry Miller 7. Norman Mailer 8. Jean Genet Postscript Afterword, by Rebecca Mead Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisTainted Witness examines how gender, race, and doubt stick to women witnesses as their testimony circulates in search of an adequate witness.Trade ReviewIn this moving and transformative text, Leigh Gilmore explores the different ways that women's testimonies are made incredible. With patience and care, Gilmore explores how testimonies circulate, how they keep open histories that have yet to be resolved, and how testimonies become tainted because of who as well as what they point to. This insightful book gives testimony a feminist hearing -- Sara Ahmed, author of Living a Feminist Life and Willful Subjects Tainted Witness is an important, relevant, often brilliant book. It further establishes Leigh Gilmore as one of the best critics writing today on the intersection of feminism and life narrative. -- Hillary Chute, author of Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form and Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics Tainted Witness displays, once more, Leigh Gilmore's remarkable ability to hone in on the most interesting, provocative, or instructive moments in any historical situation or text, and then say memorable and highly useful things about them. -- Craig Howes, director of the Center for Biographical Research and professor of English, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Rarely does an academic book address its moment so precisely as Tainted Witness... An important and timely book. If ever we needed evidence that the work of feminism is not yet done, this is it. Times Higher Education Tainted Witness doesn't just look at what's broken about how we view women's testimony. It also examines how women can work toward "distributing doubt" and ultimately arrive at true justice, making this essential reading for women living under a president who publicly professed sexual assault and faced no consequences. Rumpus Tainted Witness is a timely and necessary defense of the women whose voices are so often drowned out or shouted on. Washington PostTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Tainted Witness in Testimonial Networks 1. Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Search for an Adequate Witness 2. Jurisdictions and Testimonial Networks: Rigoberta Menchu 3. Neoliberal Life Narrative: From Testimony to Self-Help 4. Witness by Proxy: Girls in Humanitarian Storytelling 5. Tainted Witness in Law and Literature: Nafissatou Diallo and Jamaica Kincaid Conclusion: Testimonial Publics-#BlackLivesMatter and Claudia Rankine's Citizen Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisKelly Oliver examines popular culture's fixation on representing young women as predators and prey and the implication that violence—especially sexual violence—is an inevitable part of a woman's maturity. She discusses campus rape, the valorization of woman's lack of consent, and the new urgency to implement affirmative consent policies.Trade ReviewKelly Oliver's brilliant analysis of how young girls' path to womanhood is filled with beating, battery, abuse, and sexual assault is shocking and timely. Oliver's meticulously researched volume moves back and forth between myths and fairy tales linked to rape, contemporary films, television shows and ads featuring violence to girls, along with studying rape culture, and ambiguities of 'consent,' on college campuses. It is essential reading, showing that women may not have liberated themselves after all. -- E. Ann Kaplan, author of Climate Trauma: Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Fiction Corpse chic, mounted trophy, dead girl, tough girl-Kelly Oliver explores media representations of a new, empowered heroine in her compelling exploration of the dark side of the modern fairytale and its fascination with violence and rape. Oliver asks the reader to think seriously about the forces that drive rape culture and the eroticization of violence. A challenging, disturbing, and enlightening book. -- Barbara Creed, author of The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis In her detailed attention to contemporary films and social media, and in linking up today's violence against women with a long line of treasured fables and cultural archetypes, Kelly Oliver makes an important contribution to a discussion of great urgency. With eloquence and perspective, she not only exposes patterns of aggression against women but also shows the sometimes problematic ways in which women try to restore the balance. -- Molly Haskell, author of From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies A must read for scholars and students. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Girls as Trophies 1. A Princess Is Being Beaten and Raped 2. Rape as Spectator Sport and Creepshot Entertainment 3. Girls as Predators and Prey Conclusion: The New Artemis, Title IX, and Taking Responsibility for Sexual Assault Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisKelly Oliver examines popular culture's fixation on representing young women as predators and prey and the implication that violence—especially sexual violence—is an inevitable part of a woman's maturity. She discusses campus rape, the valorization of woman's lack of consent, and the new urgency to implement affirmative consent policies.Trade ReviewKelly Oliver's brilliant analysis of how young girls' path to womanhood is filled with beating, battery, abuse, and sexual assault is shocking and timely. Oliver's meticulously researched volume moves back and forth between myths and fairy tales linked to rape, contemporary films, television shows and ads featuring violence to girls, along with studying rape culture, and ambiguities of 'consent,' on college campuses. It is essential reading, showing that women may not have liberated themselves after all. -- E. Ann Kaplan, author of Climate Trauma: Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Fiction Corpse chic, mounted trophy, dead girl, tough girl-Kelly Oliver explores media representations of a new, empowered heroine in her compelling exploration of the dark side of the modern fairytale and its fascination with violence and rape. Oliver asks the reader to think seriously about the forces that drive rape culture and the eroticization of violence. A challenging, disturbing, and enlightening book. -- Barbara Creed, author of The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis In her detailed attention to contemporary films and social media, and in linking up today's violence against women with a long line of treasured fables and cultural archetypes, Kelly Oliver makes an important contribution to a discussion of great urgency. With eloquence and perspective, she not only exposes patterns of aggression against women but also shows the sometimes problematic ways in which women try to restore the balance. -- Molly Haskell, author of From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies Named a 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title: "A must read for scholars and students." ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Girls as Trophies 1. A Princess Is Being Beaten and Raped 2. Rape as Spectator Sport and Creepshot Entertainment 3. Girls as Predators and Prey Conclusion: The New Artemis, Title IX, and Taking Responsibility for Sexual Assault Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisMari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal anecdotes to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud’s idea of penis envy, Ruti fans out to a broader consideration of neoliberal pragmatism and a trenchant critique of gender relations.Trade ReviewI returned to university as an adult to audit a course by Mari Ruti, as I have long been a fan of her writing. This book returns me to the joys of being her student, of hearing her lecture, of her lucid and lively intelligence which is grounded in lived experience and is open and probing in its analysis. I always left her classes with a renewed and expansive feeling about life and the human situation, and this book gives me the same feelings of liberty, outrage, excitement, and possibility. -- Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?Mari Ruti is a treasure—equal parts learned, generous, and wise. Whether diagnosing and naming American culture’s ‘gender obsession disorder’ or unpacking its absurd fixation on marriage, she puts the unspoken ailments of our everyday into words, and brings us that much closer to finding a cure. -- Kate Bolick, New York Times bestselling author of Spinster: Making a Life of One's OwnMari Ruti's Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings is truly a unique book. Seamlessly weaving important concerns from recent queer and feminist theory into a quasi-autobiographical, quasi‐polemical fabric, it addresses crucial issues that permeate our daily lives in the twenty-first century. Ruti's book moves from the large‐scale to the intimate and back again, engaging both Western societies in general and specific instances of discomfort within their confines. -- Gail M. Newman, Williams CollegeMari Ruti’s Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings brings the reader into an intimate conversation with its author, eliciting outright laughter, deep compassion, even heartbreak, and many wincing nods of oh yeah, #MeToo recognition. Fueled by a spirited appreciation of bad feelings and an affirming love of Lacan and language, Ruti deftly turns penis envy on its head into a feisty, feminist source of political agency. -- Jill Gentile, author of Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of DesireThrough an intimate portrait of Mari Ruti’s emotional landscape we encounter the phallic predicaments of everyday life. Why the penis, we may ask? This book moves through psychoanalytic theory like fire in grass. Her ethical hope is that in taking on the full range of bad feelings, we may finally know what can be enough! -- Jamieson Webster, author of The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis[Ruti] rescues penis envy from Freud's ludicrous literalism and feminism's merry spoofing. Readers versed in critical theory, a field renowned for its obscurantist prose, will find her book remarkably lucid. -- Carol Tavris * Times Literary Supplement *This is a gutsy, original foray into feminist theory, at once memoirish, polemical and even self-helpful, just the book for anyone up for an intellectual bone to gnaw on. -- Sarah Murdoch * The Toronto Star *A delightful book that spills over with insights into the everyday suffering that these neoliberal times produce in so many of us. * Hypatia *Ruti’s Penis Envy might resonate particularly with young women who are caught up in the groundswell of the #metoo movement, and also set somewhat adrift by it. -- Ronjaunee Chatterjee * ASAP/J *Ruti offers lived experiences as well as cogent readings of Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, to make her case for how feelings of inadequacy are culturally reproduced, rather than biologically determined. . . .[Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings] invites discussion among men and women, the repressed and the celebrated, as a way of correcting fetishistic acceptance of phallic primacy. * Library Journal *Ruti interweaves theoretical insight, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal experience to lift the lid on the prevalence of bad feelings in contemporary everyday life. Emanating from a playful engagement with Freud’s idea of penis envy, Ruti’s autotheoretical commentary fans out to a broader consideration of neoliberal pragmatism. * Public Seminar *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Creed of Pragmatism2. The Rationalization of Intimacy3. The Obsessions of Gender4. The Reinvention of Heteropatriarchy5. The Specificity of Desire6. The Age of AnxietyConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisHerstories on Screen is a transnational study of feature narrative films from Australia, Canada, the United States, and New Zealand/Aotearoa that deconstruct settler-colonial myths. Kathleen Cummins offers in-depth readings of ten works by a diverse range of women filmmakers, revealing how they skillfully deploy genre tropes.Trade ReviewThis compelling study explores how mainstream narrative films about former white-settler nations, in the hands of an emerging generation of female filmmakers, were reshaped into critiques of dominant frontier myth-histories. Herstories on Screen articulates how these directors explore the contradictions in the project of nation building, bringing to the forefront the roles of women—white, Black, and indigenous—whose stories have long been overlooked. -- Susan White, University of ArizonaHerstories on Screen is a balanced and robust treatment of films by female directors who take up their home countries' national mythologies. Written in lucid prose, it engages with the feminist film theory canon and its revisions via queer, post-colonial and indigenous interrogations. Cummins deftly weaves theory with consistently astute textual analyses, making it an eminently teachable text. Urging the consideration of film as a political tool, this book addresses what these films do for representations of women, the subaltern, the maternal role, and landscape as metaphor, among many others. -- Berkeley Kaite, McGill UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Herstories in the Counter Narrative Tradition1. Women’s Storytelling—Narrative, Genre, and the Female Voice2. Debunking the Cult of True Womanhood/Motherhood on the Frontier3. Feminist Symbolic Frontier Landscapes ConclusionAppendix: The FilmsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisHerstories on Screen is a transnational study of feature narrative films from Australia, Canada, the United States, and New Zealand/Aotearoa that deconstruct settler-colonial myths. Kathleen Cummins offers in-depth readings of ten works by a diverse range of women filmmakers, revealing how they skillfully deploy genre tropes.Trade ReviewThis compelling study explores how mainstream narrative films about former white-settler nations, in the hands of an emerging generation of female filmmakers, were reshaped into critiques of dominant frontier myth-histories. Herstories on Screen articulates how these directors explore the contradictions in the project of nation building, bringing to the forefront the roles of women—white, Black, and indigenous—whose stories have long been overlooked. -- Susan White, University of ArizonaHerstories on Screen is a balanced and robust treatment of films by female directors who take up their home countries' national mythologies. Written in lucid prose, it engages with the feminist film theory canon and its revisions via queer, post-colonial and indigenous interrogations. Cummins deftly weaves theory with consistently astute textual analyses, making it an eminently teachable text. Urging the consideration of film as a political tool, this book addresses what these films do for representations of women, the subaltern, the maternal role, and landscape as metaphor, among many others. -- Berkeley Kaite, McGill UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Herstories in the Counter Narrative Tradition1. Women’s Storytelling—Narrative, Genre, and the Female Voice2. Debunking the Cult of True Womanhood/Motherhood on the Frontier3. Feminist Symbolic Frontier Landscapes ConclusionAppendix: The FilmsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisMy Brilliant Friends is an innovative group biography of three friendships forged in second-wave feminism. Poignant and politically charged, the book is a captivating personal account of the complexities of women’s bonds.Trade ReviewIn this astute, passionate, rigorously honest book about her friendships with three extraordinary women, Miller delineates the mysterious geography of those attachments we are not born into, but choose freely. The longing, pain, confusion, envy, and joy that inhabit the often unarticulated distance between "me” and “you” are so alive on these pages, they are still resonating inside me. I loved reading this book. -- Siri Hustvedt, author of A Woman Looking at Men Looking at WomenIn My Brilliant Friends, Nancy K. Miller depicts the life-altering importance of deep and nourishing friendships between and among women. Through vivid details and Miller’s singular point of view, we witness her transformative relationships with Carolyn Heilbrun, Naomi Schor, and Diane Middlebrook and their enduring love, growth, and collective power. -- Min Jin Lee, author of Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko, a finalist for the National Book AwardOf Nancy K. Miller's many illuminating books, My Brilliant Friends may be my favorite—for its sculpted lucidity, its lancing details, its interlocking plots, and its virtuoso attention to emotional ambivalence. Like Hilton Als's The Women, Miller's book is a classic triple-decker account of entanglement and rupture. She reminds us, with a witty yet mournful gracefulness, that every friendship is a complex work of art, demanding fastidious analysis and enraptured recounting. -- Wayne Koestenbaum, author of My 1980s & Other EssaysA new book by Nancy K. Miller is always a treat. This compulsively readable triptych of her friendships with Carolyn Heilbrun, Naomi Schor, and Diane Middlebrook will touch, delight, and enlighten anyone who has grown up under the influence of feminism. -- Susan Gubar, author of The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary ImaginationNancy K. Miller writes with shimmering intelligence, grace, courage, and hard-won candor about her friendships with three other significant writers, all feminists, now all dead: Carolyn Heilbrun, Naomi Schor, and Diane Middlebrook. Miller herself is surviving cancer. Both heartbreaking and life-sustaining, My Brilliant Friends proves that death can be the mother of beauty. -- Catharine R. Stimpson, University Professor and Dean Emerita, Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York UniversityNancy K. Miller has a gift for friendship and a mind for memoir. Reflecting on feminism, ambition, competition, and loss in these candid, tender stories of three passionate women intellectuals who died too soon, she has given a gift to readers who know the importance and complexity of female friendship. -- Elaine Showalter, professor emerita of English, Princeton UniversityI loved reading My Brilliant Friends. It’s a fascinating and revealing look at the texture—good and bad—of feminist friendships, and, crucially, academic life for women. It is also an inspiring testament to three remarkable feminists, each operating in her own style. An important book for generations of feminists—those established, and those to come. -- Hillary Chute, author of Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary ComicsA stunning elegy to the intimacy of friendships among women, and a book in which closeness is felt through the act of thinking. -- Maggie Taft * Booklist (starred review) *The result is a compassionate homage to the book’s three extraordinary subjects. My Brilliant Friends is not memoir as therapy, but memoir as monument....Unlike so many confessional documents, My Brilliant Friends is written in a genuinely exceptional circumstance by a genuinely exceptional person. * Times Literary Supplement *A pellucid and absorbing study on the ambivalent and less frequently explored facets of friendship – the painful coexistence, for instance, of envy, competitiveness, and resentment, on the one hand, and love and admiration, on the other. * Contemporary Women's Writing *Miller is a nimble writer, more than capable of exploring a larger world. And the world of women's friendships contain multitudes. * Women's Review of Books *It really doesn't get much better than this for me. -- Nina Collins * What Would Virginia Woolf Do? *Miller’s book, a brave and beautiful act of storytelling, is itself a gift — to her brilliant friends, to feminism, to friendship, to the literary endeavor, and to all of her readers. -- Jenny McPhee * Los Angeles Review of Books *The book offers contemporary feminist literary scholars an evocative, resonant chance to consider the nature of scholarly friendship, as well as how much has (and has not) changed for women in academe. * Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature *It is a conversation, not only with lost friends, but with the reader. . . Recommended. * Choice *The retrospective look at the fabric of her life as interwoven with the lives of other women is as much an homage to her friends as it is an elegy to friendship itself. * Literature Salon *Valuable to students of literary criticism and feminism as well as history and even psychology. It is such a specific evocation of a particular time and place, and it simultaneously engages the emotions in its reflection on love and loss. * RGWS *Miller recognizes the transformative power and centrality of the nitty-gritty in women’s outer and inner lives, and the vital, enduring friendships they form. * a/b: Auto/Biography Studies *Miller characterizes these friendships as collaborative, competitive, nurturing, and occasionally confounding. * Public Books *Table of ContentsPrelude: The Art of Losing1. Carolyn Heilbrun2. Naomi Schor3. Diane MiddlebrookEndpiecesElegy : Ann Patchett and Lucy GrealyDialogue in a Garden: Patricia YaegerNotes on LossNotesAcknowledgments

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Book SynopsisMary C. Rawlinson offers a critical analysis of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit that exposes three crucial elisions: Hegel’s effacements of sexual difference, human mortality, and literary style. Demonstrating the power of Hegel’s phenomenological method, The Betrayal of Substance is a magisterial rereading of this challenging masterwork.Trade ReviewMary Rawlinson has written an elegant, nuanced analysis of Hegel’s phenomenology that addresses its constitutive limits. She undertakes a Hegelian critique of Hegel, revealing his blindspots—his understanding of sexual difference, the finite individual, and the arts in general—while affirming his insights regarding the play of difference in human history. -- Elizabeth Grosz, author of The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of MaterialismMary Rawlinson’s The Betrayal of Substance elaborates a sophisticated and thought-provoking Hegelian critique of Hegel himself. With decades of experience deftly interpreting Hegel’s philosophy, Rawlinson powerfully argues for a phenomenology of death, literature, and sexual difference as singular instances resisting uptake into any purported encyclopedic System of Absolute Knowledge. -- Adrian Johnston, author of A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical MaterialismThe Betrayal of Substance provides one of the most thorough and careful readings of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit to date. Rawlinson sees the limitations of what Hegel is doing while appreciating the magnitude of his achievement. This book's project is distinct, and its voice is singular. -- Todd McGowan, author of Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory RevolutionThe Betrayal of Substance is a careful elucidation of The Phenomenology of Spirit which pays equal attention to its blind spots. Rawlinson argues, persuasively, that despite his enduring emphasis on life, Hegel betrays his phenomenological project in untethering consciousness from its immediate sensuous existence. Responding to these betrayals, she outlines a new conception of the political inspired by Hegel but based on creativity and the material aspects of public life. -- Elaine Miller, author of Head Cases: Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed TimesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsOn Reading Hegel’s Phenomenology of SpiritBeginning: Philosophy and the Problem of the PrefaceOur Time Is the Birth-Time of Spirit: Kant and the Bird on a Lime-TwigPart I: Epochē1. Critique of Immediacy: The Unreality of the Sensuous2. Self-Consciousness: The Fate of the Singleton3. Happiness: Reason at WorkPart II: The Phenomenology of Spirit4. Spirit, or Transubstantiated Life: Infrastructures of CommunityPart III: Absolute Knowing: The Betrayal of Substance5. Leaving Literature Behind: The Return to Immediacy in the Life of the ConceptBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisMary C. Rawlinson offers a critical analysis of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit that exposes three crucial elisions: Hegel's effacements of sexual difference, human mortality, and literary style. Demonstrating the power of Hegel's phenomenological method, The Betrayal of Substance is a magisterial rereading of this challenging masterwork.Trade ReviewMary Rawlinson has written an elegant, nuanced analysis of Hegel’s phenomenology that addresses its constitutive limits. She undertakes a Hegelian critique of Hegel, revealing his blindspots—his understanding of sexual difference, the finite individual, and the arts in general—while affirming his insights regarding the play of difference in human history. -- Elizabeth Grosz, author of The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of MaterialismMary Rawlinson’s The Betrayal of Substance elaborates a sophisticated and thought-provoking Hegelian critique of Hegel himself. With decades of experience deftly interpreting Hegel’s philosophy, Rawlinson powerfully argues for a phenomenology of death, literature, and sexual difference as singular instances resisting uptake into any purported encyclopedic System of Absolute Knowledge. -- Adrian Johnston, author of A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical MaterialismThe Betrayal of Substance provides one of the most thorough and careful readings of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit to date. Rawlinson sees the limitations of what Hegel is doing while appreciating the magnitude of his achievement. This book's project is distinct, and its voice is singular. -- Todd McGowan, author of Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory RevolutionThe Betrayal of Substance is a careful elucidation of The Phenomenology of Spirit which pays equal attention to its blind spots. Rawlinson argues, persuasively, that despite his enduring emphasis on life, Hegel betrays his phenomenological project in untethering consciousness from its immediate sensuous existence. Responding to these betrayals, she outlines a new conception of the political inspired by Hegel but based on creativity and the material aspects of public life. -- Elaine Miller, author of Head Cases: Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed TimesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsOn Reading Hegel’s Phenomenology of SpiritBeginning: Philosophy and the Problem of the PrefaceOur Time Is the Birth-Time of Spirit: Kant and the Bird on a Lime-TwigPart I: Epochē1. Critique of Immediacy: The Unreality of the Sensuous2. Self-Consciousness: The Fate of the Singleton3. Happiness: Reason at WorkPart II: The Phenomenology of Spirit4. Spirit, or Transubstantiated Life: Infrastructures of CommunityPart III: Absolute Knowing: The Betrayal of Substance5. Leaving Literature Behind: The Return to Immediacy in the Life of the ConceptBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading scholars to consider the philosophical implications of Luce Irigaray’s writing on sexual difference, particularly for issues of gender and race.Trade ReviewWhat is Sexual Difference? thinks with and against Luce Irigaray in a new and invigorating way. Posing the fundamental question as to what sexual difference is opens up a range of possibilities for reading Irigaray beyond the oppositional attitudes of the essentialism question. Essays from a diversity of perspectives consider Irigaray in relation to colonialism, race, ecological questions, and gender identity. The inclusion of essays that read Irigaray in the context of trans philosophy and the critique of cissexism are an especially welcome contribution. -- Elaine P. Miller, author of Head Cases: Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed TimesThis is a timely and impressive re-examination of Luce Irigaray's influential ontological philosophy. By explicitly placing Irigaray's thinking within our pressing contemporary concerns with new, and returning, political, social, and environmental crises, the volume examines how 'sexual difference' constructs lived experience for/by/with diverse communities in affirmative, transversal, and specific ways. Its four sections address the capacity of writing about colonial, racial, sexual, or migrational issues through sexual difference, in order to suggest affirmative and ethical relations or subjectivities. As such, Irigaray's thinking may help enable us to re-think what it means to live together, at times and in places, so deeply constituted by societal, political, and environmental inequity and uncertainty. -- Peg Rawes, author of Relational Architectural Ecologies: Architecture, Nature and SubjectivityThis rich collection shows that Irigaray's philosophy of sexual difference remains fruitful and important. Engaging with ontology, essentialism, the sex/gender distinction, trans identities, colonialism, critical race theory, nature and ecology, and new materialisms, the authors interpret and take forward the idea of sexual difference creatively. They bring out many generative resonances between Irigaray's work and contemporary critical thought. -- Alison Stone, author of Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual DifferenceThe text that you hold, What is Sexual Difference?, beautifully captures the constitutive dynamism, dialectical and conceptual generativity, and deep openness that is reflective of the ongoing work of Luce Irigaray. The engaging and critically fecund voices and discursive framings within the text precisely reflect the phenomenon of wonder as postponement vis-à-vis the meaning of sexual difference. The text embodies a conceptual excess that resists closure regarding the work of Irigaray but does not sacrifice the necessity to think with her. Indeed, it is this process of thinking with Irigaray that disrupts autarchic myths of univocal meaning, and interpretive hegemony regarding her work. It is clear to me that the spirit and passion of Irigarayan wonder (as a mode of mourning) imbues this text. In this way, Rawlinson and Sares have fashioned a polyvocal philosophical site that refuses (as it should) to suit us totally and functions as a critically engaging textual advent. -- George Yancy, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsForeword, by Elizabeth GroszList of Abbreviations (Works by Irigaray)Introduction: Irigaray and the Question of Sexual Difference, by James Sares and Mary C. RawlinsonPart I: The Ontology of Sexual Difference1. The Ontological Negativity of Sexual Difference, by James Sares2. Opening Hegel’s Autological Circle: Irigaray and the Metaphysics of Sexual Difference, by Mary C. Rawlinson3. One, Two, Many? Sexual Difference and the Problem of Universals, by Stephen D. Seely4. Returning to Irigaray’s Radical Materialism: Sexuate Difference, Ontology, and Bodies of Water, by Laura RobertsPart II: Sexual Difference Beyond Sex/Gender5. Life Itself and Sexual Difference: Nature and Culture, by Ruthanne Crapo Kim6. Sexuation as a Frame for Human Becoming: Reading a “Plastic” Essence in Irigaray’s Philosophy, by Belinda Eslick7. Looking Back at “This Sex Which Is Not One”: Post-deconstructive New Materialisms and Their (Sexual) Difference, by Penelope DeutscherPart III: Sexuate Nature and Subjectivity8. An Uncontainable Subject: Thinking Feminine Sexuate Subjectivity with Irigaray, by Jennifer Carter9. Male Re-imaginings: From the Ontology of the Anal Toward a Phenomenology of Fluidity, by Ovidiu Anemțoaicei10. Sexual Difference as Qualitative Becoming: Irigaray Beyond Cissexism?, by Oli Stephano11. An Onto-ethics of Transsexual Difference, by Mitchell Damian MurtaghPart IV: Placing Sexual Difference12. Sexuate Difference in the Black Atlantic: Reading Irigaray with Hartman, by Rachel Jones13. Bloodshed: Kinship as a Site of Violence in Irigaray and Spillers, by Sabrina L. Hom14. Toward a Sexuate Jurisprudence and on the “Second Rape” of Law, by Yvette Russell15. Place Thinking with Irigaray and Neidjie, by Rebecca HillPart V: Back to the Future of Sexual Difference16. Reading Speculum Again: Narrative, Optics, Time, by Emanuela Bianchi17. Indebtedness: A Sexuate Malaise, by Iván Hofman18. Mysterics: Extinction and Emptiness, by Lynne HufferList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading scholars to consider the philosophical implications of Luce Irigaray’s writing on sexual difference, particularly for issues of gender and race.Trade ReviewWhat is Sexual Difference? thinks with and against Luce Irigaray in a new and invigorating way. Posing the fundamental question as to what sexual difference is opens up a range of possibilities for reading Irigaray beyond the oppositional attitudes of the essentialism question. Essays from a diversity of perspectives consider Irigaray in relation to colonialism, race, ecological questions, and gender identity. The inclusion of essays that read Irigaray in the context of trans philosophy and the critique of cissexism are an especially welcome contribution. -- Elaine P. Miller, author of Head Cases: Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed TimesThis is a timely and impressive re-examination of Luce Irigaray's influential ontological philosophy. By explicitly placing Irigaray's thinking within our pressing contemporary concerns with new, and returning, political, social, and environmental crises, the volume examines how 'sexual difference' constructs lived experience for/by/with diverse communities in affirmative, transversal, and specific ways. Its four sections address the capacity of writing about colonial, racial, sexual, or migrational issues through sexual difference, in order to suggest affirmative and ethical relations or subjectivities. As such, Irigaray's thinking may help enable us to re-think what it means to live together, at times and in places, so deeply constituted by societal, political, and environmental inequity and uncertainty. -- Peg Rawes, author of Relational Architectural Ecologies: Architecture, Nature and SubjectivityThis rich collection shows that Irigaray's philosophy of sexual difference remains fruitful and important. Engaging with ontology, essentialism, the sex/gender distinction, trans identities, colonialism, critical race theory, nature and ecology, and new materialisms, the authors interpret and take forward the idea of sexual difference creatively. They bring out many generative resonances between Irigaray's work and contemporary critical thought. -- Alison Stone, author of Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual DifferenceThe text that you hold, What is Sexual Difference?, beautifully captures the constitutive dynamism, dialectical and conceptual generativity, and deep openness that is reflective of the ongoing work of Luce Irigaray. The engaging and critically fecund voices and discursive framings within the text precisely reflect the phenomenon of wonder as postponement vis-à-vis the meaning of sexual difference. The text embodies a conceptual excess that resists closure regarding the work of Irigaray but does not sacrifice the necessity to think with her. Indeed, it is this process of thinking with Irigaray that disrupts autarchic myths of univocal meaning, and interpretive hegemony regarding her work. It is clear to me that the spirit and passion of Irigarayan wonder (as a mode of mourning) imbues this text. In this way, Rawlinson and Sares have fashioned a polyvocal philosophical site that refuses (as it should) to suit us totally and functions as a critically engaging textual advent. -- George Yancy, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsForeword, by Elizabeth GroszList of Abbreviations (Works by Irigaray)Introduction: Irigaray and the Question of Sexual Difference, by James Sares and Mary C. RawlinsonPart I: The Ontology of Sexual Difference1. The Ontological Negativity of Sexual Difference, by James Sares2. Opening Hegel’s Autological Circle: Irigaray and the Metaphysics of Sexual Difference, by Mary C. Rawlinson3. One, Two, Many? Sexual Difference and the Problem of Universals, by Stephen D. Seely4. Returning to Irigaray’s Radical Materialism: Sexuate Difference, Ontology, and Bodies of Water, by Laura RobertsPart II: Sexual Difference Beyond Sex/Gender5. Life Itself and Sexual Difference: Nature and Culture, by Ruthanne Crapo Kim6. Sexuation as a Frame for Human Becoming: Reading a “Plastic” Essence in Irigaray’s Philosophy, by Belinda Eslick7. Looking Back at “This Sex Which Is Not One”: Post-deconstructive New Materialisms and Their (Sexual) Difference, by Penelope DeutscherPart III: Sexuate Nature and Subjectivity8. An Uncontainable Subject: Thinking Feminine Sexuate Subjectivity with Irigaray, by Jennifer Carter9. Male Re-imaginings: From the Ontology of the Anal Toward a Phenomenology of Fluidity, by Ovidiu Anemțoaicei10. Sexual Difference as Qualitative Becoming: Irigaray Beyond Cissexism?, by Oli Stephano11. An Onto-ethics of Transsexual Difference, by Mitchell Damian MurtaghPart IV: Placing Sexual Difference12. Sexuate Difference in the Black Atlantic: Reading Irigaray with Hartman, by Rachel Jones13. Bloodshed: Kinship as a Site of Violence in Irigaray and Spillers, by Sabrina L. Hom14. Toward a Sexuate Jurisprudence and on the “Second Rape” of Law, by Yvette Russell15. Place Thinking with Irigaray and Neidjie, by Rebecca HillPart V: Back to the Future of Sexual Difference16. Reading Speculum Again: Narrative, Optics, Time, by Emanuela Bianchi17. Indebtedness: A Sexuate Malaise, by Iván Hofman18. Mysterics: Extinction and Emptiness, by Lynne HufferList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisMary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) made a pioneering and durably influential argument for women's equality. Drawing on extensive experience teaching and writing about Wollstonecraft, Susan J. Wolfson provides fresh perspectives both for first-time readers and those seeking a nuanced appreciation of her achievements.Trade ReviewMary Wollstonecraft helped us to understand how easily the rights of women can vanish from the political and social scene and how ‘natural’ it can seem for men and women to ignore them. This remarkable book not only situates Wollstonecraft in history but also shows in detail how she altered history by writing so well. -- Michael G. Wood, author of The Habits of DistractionThis book is memorable, educational, and enjoyable, exploring Wollstonecraft’s life and thought with brio and unrestrained pleasure. Wolfson's understanding of the subject is second to none—there is no one more authoritative or more learned. -- Duncan Wu, editor of Romanticism: An AnthologySusan Wolfson’s engaged and engaging account of Mary Wollstonecraft illuminates the creative intellectual energies that drove Wollstonecraft’s prodigious achievement: nothing less than an analysis of women’s situation in the context of a larger political system. Wolfson’s exposition is dazzling. -- Frances Ferguson, author of Solitude and the Sublime: The Romantic Aesthetics of IndividuationWolfson provides a compelling and classroom-friendly introduction to the troubled private life, flamboyant public career, and charged political afterlife of Mary Wollstonecraft. Her writing is scintillating, with vernacular verve and unflagging narrative drive. This book has everything—point, polish, and an accessibly gripping tale to tell. -- Garrett Stewart, James O. Freedman Professor of Letters, University of IowaAn admirably witty, informative, and succinct new guide to Wollstonecraft's most famous book. -- Miranda Seymour * New York Review of Books *[An] excellent study of A Vindication. -- Elaine Showalter * Times Literary Supplement *This book provides fresh perspectives both for first-time readers and those seeking a nuanced appreciation of her achievements. * Discovery *An exciting supplement to the ever-growing list of books on Wollstonecraft and her work...Wolfson’s book works as both an introduction for undergraduate students and an engaging read for feminist and literary scholars. * Tulsa Studies on Women's Literature *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsMy Texts, Abbreviations, and Short TitlesPrologue: Why Mary Wollstonecraft? Why A Vindication?1. How Mary Wollstonecraft Became “the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman”2. Picturing Mary Wollstonecraft: The Right Woman3. “An Amazon stept out”: A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)4. “Revolution in female manners”: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792)5. Dystopian Nightmare: Paris, December 26, 17926. “Bastilled . . . for life”: The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria; a Fragment (1798)Epilogue: “we hear her voice”Brief Glossary of Recurring NamesNotesFurther Reading and BibliographiesIndex

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Book SynopsisMary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) made a pioneering and durably influential argument for women’s equality. Drawing on extensive experience teaching and writing about Wollstonecraft, Susan J. Wolfson provides fresh perspectives both for first-time readers and those seeking a nuanced appreciation of her achievements.Trade ReviewMary Wollstonecraft helped us to understand how easily the rights of women can vanish from the political and social scene and how ‘natural’ it can seem for men and women to ignore them. This remarkable book not only situates Wollstonecraft in history but also shows in detail how she altered history by writing so well. -- Michael G. Wood, author of The Habits of DistractionThis book is memorable, educational, and enjoyable, exploring Wollstonecraft’s life and thought with brio and unrestrained pleasure. Wolfson's understanding of the subject is second to none—there is no one more authoritative or more learned. -- Duncan Wu, editor of Romanticism: An AnthologySusan Wolfson’s engaged and engaging account of Mary Wollstonecraft illuminates the creative intellectual energies that drove Wollstonecraft’s prodigious achievement: nothing less than an analysis of women’s situation in the context of a larger political system. Wolfson’s exposition is dazzling. -- Frances Ferguson, author of Solitude and the Sublime: The Romantic Aesthetics of IndividuationWolfson provides a compelling and classroom-friendly introduction to the troubled private life, flamboyant public career, and charged political afterlife of Mary Wollstonecraft. Her writing is scintillating, with vernacular verve and unflagging narrative drive. This book has everything—point, polish, and an accessibly gripping tale to tell. -- Garrett Stewart, James O. Freedman Professor of Letters, University of IowaAn admirably witty, informative, and succinct new guide to Wollstonecraft's most famous book. -- Miranda Seymour * New York Review of Books *[An] excellent study of A Vindication. -- Elaine Showalter * Times Literary Supplement *This book provides fresh perspectives both for first-time readers and those seeking a nuanced appreciation of her achievements. * Discovery *An exciting supplement to the ever-growing list of books on Wollstonecraft and her work...Wolfson’s book works as both an introduction for undergraduate students and an engaging read for feminist and literary scholars. * Tulsa Studies on Women's Literature *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsMy Texts, Abbreviations, and Short TitlesPrologue: Why Mary Wollstonecraft? Why A Vindication?1. How Mary Wollstonecraft Became “the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman”2. Picturing Mary Wollstonecraft: The Right Woman3. “An Amazon stept out”: A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)4. “revolution in female manners”: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792)5. Dystopian Nightmare: Paris, December 26, 17926. “bastilled . . . for life”: The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria; a Fragment (1798)Epilogue: “we hear her voice”Brief Glossary of Recurring NamesNotesFurther Reading and BibliographiesIndex

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Book SynopsisRace, ethnicity, and the American New WomanTrade Review"Beyond the Gibson Girl is an interesting, important, and highly readable study defining the New Woman, a figure of enduring importance to both cultural and literary history. Martha Patterson looks wisely beyond any fixed perspective to show how differently this figure is conceived depending on the perspectives from which she is viewed, and the effects on this image of issues of region, race, ethnicity, and social class."--Elsa Nettels, professor of English, emeritus, College of William and Mary"Patterson's work is insightful, penetrating, and highly readable. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"Patterson is to be lauded for problematizing the figure of the New Woman in literature and popular culture beyond what has been done in any previous studies, especially in the way she examines the competing and conflicting claims, constraints, and possibilities for women."--Journal of American History"An engaging and thought-provoking analysis of the Gibson Girl. . . . As cultural history and as literary analysis, the book succeeds in deepening our understanding of a potent American icon."--American Historical Review"Beyond the Gibson Girl reveals the great benefits of an interdisciplinary study of American culture. . . . Patterson draws heavily on literary analysis as well as on a wide variety of social commentaries, on social scientific and evolutionary theories of the period, and on contemporary visual theory. This combination of sources places what may have been perceived to be a rather simplistic ideal into a complex cultural framework that includes many of the significant issues of the period."--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society"In her richly archival study, Martha Patterson . . . productively complicates the American New Woman's literary and cultural history."--Modernism/modernity"Martha Patterson's Beyond the Gibson Girl has given us perfectly conceived, cogent, and insightful arguments about the role of context and geography in the development of the New Womanhood. It is high time for a book like this to appear."--Dale M. Bauer, professor of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Book SynopsisCalls 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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Book SynopsisIn Muddying the Waters, Richa Nagar embarks on an eloquent and moving exploration of the promises and pitfalls she has encountered during her two decades of transnational feminist work. With stories, encounters, and anecdotes as well as methodological reflections, Nagar grapples with the complexity of working through solidarities, responsibility, and ethics while involved in politically engaged scholarship. Experiences that range from the streets of Dar es Salaam to farms and development offices in North India inform discussion of the labor and politics of coauthorship, translation, and genre blending in research and writing that cross multiple--and often difficult--borders. The author links the implicit assumptions, issues, and questions involved with scholarship and political action, and explores the epistemological risks and possibilities of creative research that bring these into intimate dialogueDaringly self-conscious, Muddying the Waters reveals a politicTrade ReviewHonorable Mention, Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize, National Women's Studies Association (NWSA), 2015. "Muddying the Waters is a searching memoir of one woman's struggle with struggle itself. It breaks from the typical academic genre: fractures the page, leaves fragments untranslated, invokes past and present coauthors, stages a play, asks impossible questions, and ends with a metaphor of impossible struggles-- a small bird fighting a fire, one beak-full of water per flight. The prose is self-critical, courageous, poetical, and open-hearted. The book cannot be read dispassionately by anyone who sees their own reflection in that bird's travail."--Gender, Place & Culture"In Muddying the Waters, Rich Nagar reflects on more than two decades of transnational feminist activism and scholarship, drawing on academic studies and activist collaborations in Tanzania, India, and the United States. . . . It poses questions about the responsibility academics have to those they co-produce knowledge with."--Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography "Nagar’s work is a call for politically engaged and ethical research that takes matters of epistemic violence seriously… Muddying the Waters makes an important contribution to debates on the need for political meaningfulness in academic production by offering an illustrative example of how it can be achieved…The book equips its readers with analytical tools to identify and begin to develop responsible and ethical research projects that cross geographical, socio-political and institutional borders."--Journal of Narrative Politics "More than any other book I know, it robustly confronts the epistemic violence that is possible in collaborative feminist research. . . . It takes seriously the mandate of multivocality and relays conversations with a range of interlocutors, from students to mentors to collaborators to colleagues. The author also writes in different voices--as a theorist, a poet, a teacher, and a sangtin. In each case, there is ringing passion."--Ashwini Tambe, author of Codes of Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay and editorial director of Feminist Studies"A significant contribution to scholarly conversations across the Global North-South, and White vs. feminists-of-color divides. A must-read for anyone who is interested in truly global feminist theorizing."--Bandana Purkayastha, professor and head of sociology and Asian American studies, University of Connecticut, and author of Negotiating Ethnicity

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2015. "An impressive work of erudition. Essential."--Choice"Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann's decision to present these essays with introductions from an extraordinary community of scholars is a felicitous addition that enables the texts and meta-texts to bring to light their subtexts. The result is perhaps the best accolade to bestow on any work of scholarship: its necessity. For anyone interested in Beauvoir or the foundations of twentieth century feminist thought, research is imperiled without a perusal of this book."--Lewis R. Gordon, Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies, University of Connecticut"Of all the excellent volumes in this amazing series . . . perhaps this one is the most awaited. This volume gives new insight into Beauvoir's thinking about gender, sexuality, motherhood, the women's movement, and the place of women in the world. These texts, many of which are available in English for the first time, and collected here for the first time anywhere, show the evolving thought on women by the most important feminist thinker of the twentieth century."--Kelly Oliver, author of Technologies of Life and Death: From Cloning to Capital Punishment"I was thoroughly engrossed with these texts. This volume significantly adds to the Beauvoir literature, and to feminist literature more generally, and should put to rest, once and for all, the myth that Beauvoir embraced feminism only in 1972."--Claudia Card, author of The Atrocity Paradigm: A Theory of Evil"Excellent introductions by leading scholars carefully locate these works in their own contexts and also demonstrate why we should still attend to Beauvoir's thinking today. This collection is necessary reading not only for those interested in Simone de Beauvoir's thinking but for all who are interested in the emergence of contemporary feminism."--Sonia Kruks, author of Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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

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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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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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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

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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

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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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