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Book SynopsisFeaturing essays from a variety of fields, including law, comparative politics and sociology, this volume represents an interdisciplinary, multimethodological and multicultural feminist approach to changes in the welfare system of Western industrialized countries.

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Book Synopsis No Permanent Waves boldly enters the ongoing debates over the utility of the 'wave' metaphor for capturing the complex history of women''s rights by offering fresh perspectives on the diverse movements that comprise U.S. feminism, past and present. Seventeen essays--both original and reprinted--address continuities, conflicts, and transformations among women''s movements in the United States from the early nineteenth century through today.A respected group of contributors from diverse generations and backgrounds argue for new chronologies, more inclusive conceptualizations of feminist agendas and participants, and fuller engagements with contestations around particular issues and practices. Race, class, and sexuality are explored within histories of women''s rights and feminism as well as the cultural and intellectual currents and social and political priorities that marked movements for women''s advancement and liberation. These essays question whether the conTrade Review"From Seneca Falls to hip-hop, this striking collection pushes us to rethink the who, what, when, where, and why of U.S. feminist history. The wide-ranging essays toss out the overly tidy generational model and replace it with complex, rich, and inclusive accounts of our feminist past. Highly recommended." -- Joanne Meyerowitz * author of How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States *"An important contribution to the ongoing dialogue on the meaning of feminism and its application not just within the academy, but also to a larger and more general political, social, and intellectual forum. Recommended." * Choice *"As an intellectual enterprise the book successfully established the overlapping and intertwined configurations of feminist movements from the 1840s to the present. Hewitt's book is a compelling guide to contemporary interpretations of American feminisms. Its thought-provoking essays will be especially useful in classroom distussions about historical practice." * Journal of American History *"No Permanent Waves offers not only crucial information on the histories of feminism but also evidence for new historiographical claims about how feminism relates to itself across time, positionality, race, region, class, sexuality, occupation, and especially generation. Featuring a range of essays on manifestations of feminism and their relationships to time and generation, No Permanent Waves demonstrated the strength of attending to difference." * Signs *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Reframing Narratives/Reclaiming HistoriesChapter 1. From Seneca Falls to Suffrage? Chapter 2. Multiracial FeminismChapter 3. Black Feminisms and Human Agency“We Have a Long, Beautiful History”Chapter 5. Unsettling “Third Wave Feminism”Part II: Coming Together/Pulling ApartChapter 6. Overthrowing the “Monopoly of the Pulpit”Chapter 7. Labor Feminists and President Kennedy’s Commission on WomenChapter 8. Expanding the Boundaries of the Women’s MovementChapter 9. Rethinking Global SisterhoodChapter 10. Living a Feminist LifestyleChapter 11. Strange BedfellowsChapter 12. From Sisterhood to Girlie CulturePart III: Rethinking Agendas/Relocating ActivismChapter 13. Staking Claims to IndependenceChapter 14. “I Had Not Seen Women Like That Before”Chapter 15. The Hidden History of Affirmative ActionChapter 16. U.S. Feminism—Grrrl Style!Chapter 17. “Under Construction”

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This rich, well-written, timely set of essays should be required reading for courses about feminist anthropology, the history of gender and women's studies, and those that treat activism in the range of arenas inflected by gender and sexuality and are mapped in constantly shifting ways across human political, sociocultural, and environmental realities ... Summing up: Essential." * Choice *"A fresh mapping of feminist anthropology, with outstanding contributions ranging from body politics to transnationalism. The time is right for this smart and engaging collection." -- Florence E. Babb * University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *"A very fine and welcome addition to the field.” -- Carla Freeman * Emory University *"The volume's strongest contributions are those in which authors ground feminist theories with ethnographic data to impel social justice." * Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute *"This collection is a valuable and encouraging set of meditations on that question and a call for feminist anthropologists to continue embracing their vexations." * American Ethnologist *"The Top 75 Community College Titles: January Edition: The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the January issue of Choice." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments PrologueRayna R. Rapp Introduction. Anthropologies and Feminisms: Mapping Our Intellectual JourneyLeni M. Silverstein and Ellen Lewin Part I Foundations: Problematizing Feminist Anthropology Feminist Anthropology Engages Social Movements: Theory, Ethnography, and ActivismLouise Lamphere Feminist Linguistics and Linguistic FeminismsElise Kramer The Curious Relationship of Feminist Anthropology and Women’s StudiesA. Lynn Bolles Part II Expansions: Confronting Universals When Nature/Culture Implodes: Feminist Anthropology and BiotechnologyElizabeth F. S. Roberts Conceptions of Contraceptions: Feminist Anthropological Perspectives on Men, Women, and Reproductive Health in Two K’iche’ Maya CommunitiesMatthew R. Dudgeon The Body and Embodiment in the History of Feminist Anthropology: An Idiosyncratic Excursion through BinariesFrances E. Mascia-Lees Discipline and Desire: Feminist Politics, Queer Studies, and New Queer AnthropologyMargot Weiss Part III Reverberations: Transnational Encounters A Greater Measure of Justice: Gender, Violence, and ReparationsKimberly Theidon Cooking with Firewood: Deep Meaning and Environmental Materialities in a Globalized WorldMeena Khandelwal Feminist Anthropology: Approaching Domestic Violence in Northern Viet NamLynn Kwiatkowski Studying Gender and Neoliberalism Transnationally: Implications for Theory and ActionCatherine Kingfisher EpilogueTom Boellstorff Notes on ContributorsIndex

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Trade Review"This rich, well-written, timely set of essays should be required reading for courses about feminist anthropology, the history of gender and women's studies, and those that treat activism in the range of arenas inflected by gender and sexuality and are mapped in constantly shifting ways across human political, sociocultural, and environmental realities ... Summing up: Essential." * Choice *"A very fine and welcome addition to the field.” -- Carla Freeman * Emory University *"A fresh mapping of feminist anthropology, with outstanding contributions ranging from body politics to transnationalism. The time is right for this smart and engaging collection." -- Florence E. Babb * University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *"The volume's strongest contributions are those in which authors ground feminist theories with ethnographic data to impel social justice." * Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute *"This collection is a valuable and encouraging set of meditations on that question and a call for feminist anthropologists to continue embracing their vexations." * American Ethnologist *"The Top 75 Community College Titles: January Edition: The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the January issue of Choice." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments PrologueRayna R. Rapp Introduction. Anthropologies and Feminisms: Mapping Our Intellectual JourneyLeni M. Silverstein and Ellen Lewin Part I Foundations: Problematizing Feminist Anthropology Feminist Anthropology Engages Social Movements: Theory, Ethnography, and ActivismLouise Lamphere Feminist Linguistics and Linguistic FeminismsElise Kramer The Curious Relationship of Feminist Anthropology and Women’s StudiesA. Lynn Bolles Part II Expansions: Confronting Universals When Nature/Culture Implodes: Feminist Anthropology and BiotechnologyElizabeth F. S. Roberts Conceptions of Contraceptions: Feminist Anthropological Perspectives on Men, Women, and Reproductive Health in Two K’iche’ Maya CommunitiesMatthew R. Dudgeon The Body and Embodiment in the History of Feminist Anthropology: An Idiosyncratic Excursion through BinariesFrances E. Mascia-Lees Discipline and Desire: Feminist Politics, Queer Studies, and New Queer AnthropologyMargot Weiss Part III Reverberations: Transnational Encounters A Greater Measure of Justice: Gender, Violence, and ReparationsKimberly Theidon Cooking with Firewood: Deep Meaning and Environmental Materialities in a Globalized WorldMeena Khandelwal Feminist Anthropology: Approaching Domestic Violence in Northern Viet NamLynn Kwiatkowski Studying Gender and Neoliberalism Transnationally: Implications for Theory and ActionCatherine Kingfisher EpilogueTom Boellstorff Notes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisBrodsky and Olin profile female leaders in music, theater, dance, and visual art. The diverse women included in this volume have made their mark as arts leaders by serving as executives or founders of art organizations, by working as activists to support the arts, or by challenging stereotypes about women in the arts.Trade Review“There will never be too many books teaching Women’s Herstory. Brodsky and Olin’s case studies describe the outrageous and humiliating strangleholds all women have endured and continue to face. Brodsky and Olin champion us to reach our goals.” -- Elizabeth A. Sackler, PhD * Founder, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum *“New histories need to be written. Preserving stories that complicate and enrich mainstream narratives is vitally important, and the inspired and inspiring contributions groundbreaking women have made to our cultural world deserve to be celebrated. In addition to leading this charge themselves in their own remarkable careers, with the publication of Junctures in Women’s Leadership: The Arts, Judith Brodsky and Ferris Olin have given us the gift of expanding the canon through these remarkable case studies in creative leadership in the arts.” -- Catherine Morris * Sackler Senior Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Brooklyn Museum *“Here's a round of applause for Judith Brodsky and Ferris Olin, founders of the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art (now the Rutgers Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities, the first feminist art center on a university campus) and heartfelt thanks for Junctures in Women's Leadership: The Arts, their rich insights into generations of women leaders in the arts on the global stage. As arts leaders in their own right and as historians of the rich tradition to which they belong, Brodsky and Olin document feminist cultural history as, just as importantly, they continue to make it. We are doubly in their debt.” -- Nell Irvin Painter * Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University, author of The History of White *"Quick to See and Quick to Lead: Women and Power in the Arts" by Stuart Mitchner * Town Topics *" Recommended." * Choice *"This much-needed volume, with its primary focus on visual arts professionals, brings attention to a group of women whose biographies have not been joined before....[Brodsky and Olin's] sound scholarship is essential to advancing the understanding about the contributions of these women as well as the general contributions of women in the arts. No similar books offer case studies on women leaders across different professions with this focus. Hopefully, more such accessible tomes will follow." * Woman's art Journal *"Reflections on Aging, Identity, and Social Justice in Potent Prints," by Ilene Dube * Hyperallergic *Table of Contents1 Bertha Honoré Palmer (1849-1918) Philanthropist, president of the Board of Lady Managers, Woman’s Building, World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893 2 Louise Noun (1908 – 2002) Philanthropist, art collector, scholar 3 Samella Lewis (1924-) Artist, art historian, arts administrator 4 Julia Miles (1930-) Theater director and producer; founder, Women’s Project Theater 5 Miriam Colón (1936-2017) Broadway and Hollywood film actress; founder, Puerto Rican Traveling Theater 6 Jaune Quick-To-See Smith (1940-) Artist and activist 7 Bernice Steinbaum (1941-) Gallerist and advocate for diversity 8 Anne d’Harnoncourt (1943-2008) Director, Philadelphia Museum of Art 9 Martha Wilson (1947-) Artist, activist, archivist; founder, Franklin Furnace Archive 10 Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (1950-) Choreographer; founder of the dance company, Urban Bush Women 11 Kim Berman (1960-) Artist, activist; founder, Artist Proof Studio and Phumani Paper, South Africa 12 Gilane Tawadros (1965-) Arts administrator; founding director, Institute for International Visual Arts (InIVA), United Kingdom 13 Veomanee Douangdala (1976-) and Joanne Smith (1976-) Social and cultural entrepreneurs, Laos

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary essay collection, bringing together leading experts in this burgeoning field and offering insights about how transgender activism and scholarship might transform scholarship and public policy. This theoretically sophisticated book bridges the gaps between activism and academia by offering examples of cutting-edge activism, research, and pedagogy.Trade Review"A valuable contribution to the field … Trans Studies is an informative and stimulating read." * Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy *Winner of the 2017 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) * Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) *"This welcome new anthology brings into sharp focus one of the most productive contributions the field of trans studies has made to scholarship on sexuality and gender: revealing the extent to which dominant, naturalized constructions of the relationship between sexed embodiment and gendered subjectivity traverse not only the heteronormative world, but also much of feminism, queer theory, and other fields that study the creation of social hierarchy from bodily difference. Addressing such diverse topics as educational activism, policy reform, surveillance technologies, cinema, theater, narrative arts, migration, and social movements, Trans Studies ably demonstrates that the field it surveys has indeed arrived as an important new lens for understanding, interpreting and appreciating a wide range of human diversities." -- Susan Stryker * coeditor of The Transgender Studies Reader v. 1 & 2 and Co-founder of Transgender Studies Quarterly *"A vital addition to the field of trans studies. Martínez-San Miguel and Tobias have curated a collection of rich new scholarship located in the spaces between trans, feminist, and queer studies." -- Paisley Currah * coeditor of Transgender Rights and co-founder of Transgender Studies Quarterly *"Trans Studies brings together some of the most challenging and compelling recent work in the field of transgender studies. The collection includes voices from inside and outside the academy, and it makes activists' contributions central. The fact of this diversity makes the project extremely vibrant: it will have a broad appeal across disciplines and for activists and community members as well." -- Heather Love * University of Pennsylvania *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Thinking beyond Hetero/Homonormativities Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias Part I Gender Boundaries within Educational Spaces Chapter 1 Creating a Gender-Inclusive Campus Genny Beemyn and Susan R. Rankin Chapter 2 Transgendering the Academy: Ensuring Transgender Inclusion in Higher Education Pauline Park Part II Trans Imaginaries Chapter 3 “I’ll call him Mahood instead, I prefer that, I’m queer”: Samuel Beckett’s Spatial Aesthetic of Name Change Lucas Crawford Chapter 4 Excruciating Improbability and the Transgender Jamaican Keja Valens Chapter 5 TRANScoding the Transnational Digital Economy Jian Chen Part III Crossing Borders/Crossing Gender Chapter 6 When Things Don’t Add Up: Transgender Bodies and the Mobile Borders of Biometrics Toby Beauchamp Chapter 7 Connecting the Dots: National Security, the Crime-Migration Nexus, and Trans Women’s Survival Nora Butler Burke Chapter 8 Affective Vulnerability and Transgender Exceptionalism: Norma Ureiro in Transgression Aren Z. Aizura Part IV Trans Activism and Policy Chapter 9 The “T” in LGBTQ: How Do Trans Activists Perceive Alliances within LGBT and Queer Movements in Quebec (Canada)? Mickael Chacha Enriquez Chapter 10 Translatina Is About the Journey: A Dialogue on Social Justice for Transgender Latinas in San Francisco Alexandra Rodríguez de Ruíz and Marcia Ochoa Chapter 11 LGB within the T: Sexual Orientation in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey and Implications for Public Policy Jody L. Herman Part V Transforming Disciplines and Pedagogy Chapter 12 Adventures in Trans Biopolitics: A Comparison between Public Health and Critical Academic Research Praxes Sel J. Hwahng Chapter 13 Stick Figures and Pronouns: Toward a Nonbinary Pedagogy A. Finn Enke Conclusion Trans Fantasizing: From Social Media to Collective Imagination Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisGrounded in Black feminist thought, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery looks at the functioning of scripts ascribed to Black women’s bodies in the framing of HIV/AIDS, domestic abuse, and mental illness and how such functioning renders some black female bodies invisible in Black politics in general and Black women’s politics specifically. Trade Review"Shadow Bodies engages the work of Hurston and Morrison, Beyonce and Rihanna, in a theoretically nuanced examination of the scripts of Black Women’s bodies in popular and political culture. It highlights the material consequences of silence and rhetoric, and is an extraordinarily good example of interdisciplinary, intersectional, engaged political science." -- Renee Ann Cramer * author of Pregnant with the Stars: Watching and Wanting the Celebrity Baby Bump *“Shadow Bodies takes the reader on a sobering journey through aspects of black womanhood that are usually divorced from social scientific inquiry: how personal experiences with and public discourses about domestic violence, HIV/AIDS, and mental illness shape black women’s political socialization. Embracing classic formulations in black feminist thought, the author bravely exposes and deconstructs the forced silences that black women must break as we move ever more fully into American public life.” -- Zenzele Isoke * author of Urban Black Women and the Politics of Resistance *Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction 1 1 Different Streams of Knowledge: Theoretically Situating This Study 19 2 Inscribing and the Black (Female) Body Politic 30 3 Uncovering Talk across Time and Space: Black Women Elected Officials, Essence and Ebony, and Black Female Bloggers 52 4 “Safe, Soulful Sex”: HIV/AIDS Talk 76 5 Killing Me Softly: Narratives on Domestic Violence and Black Womanhood 101 6 “Why So Many Sisters Are Mad and Sad”: Talking about Black Women with Mental Illnesses 124 7 Sister Speak: Using Intersectionality in Our Political and Policy Strategizing 140 Appendix 157 Acknowledgments 163 Notes 165 References 169 Index 195

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Book SynopsisGrounded in Black feminist thought, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery looks at the functioning of scripts ascribed to Black women’s bodies in the framing of HIV/AIDS, domestic abuse, and mental illness and how such functioning renders some black female bodies invisible in Black politics in general and Black women’s politics specifically. Trade Review"Shadow Bodies engages the work of Hurston and Morrison, Beyonce and Rihanna, in a theoretically nuanced examination of the scripts of Black Women’s bodies in popular and political culture. It highlights the material consequences of silence and rhetoric, and is an extraordinarily good example of interdisciplinary, intersectional, engaged political science." -- Renee Ann Cramer * author of Pregnant with the Stars: Watching and Wanting the Celebrity Baby Bump *“Shadow Bodies takes the reader on a sobering journey through aspects of black womanhood that are usually divorced from social scientific inquiry: how personal experiences with and public discourses about domestic violence, HIV/AIDS, and mental illness shape black women’s political socialization. Embracing classic formulations in black feminist thought, the author bravely exposes and deconstructs the forced silences that black women must break as we move ever more fully into American public life.” -- Zenzele Isoke * author of Urban Black Women and the Politics of Resistance *Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction 1 1 Different Streams of Knowledge: Theoretically Situating This Study 19 2 Inscribing and the Black (Female) Body Politic 30 3 Uncovering Talk across Time and Space: Black Women Elected Officials, Essence and Ebony, and Black Female Bloggers 52 4 “Safe, Soulful Sex”: HIV/AIDS Talk 76 5 Killing Me Softly: Narratives on Domestic Violence and Black Womanhood 101 6 “Why So Many Sisters Are Mad and Sad”: Talking about Black Women with Mental Illnesses 124 7 Sister Speak: Using Intersectionality in Our Political and Policy Strategizing 140 Appendix 157 Acknowledgments 163 Notes 165 References 169 Index 195

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Book SynopsisForty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words, revealing how each woman deals with the trauma of bereavement differently. Whether you are a widow yourself or have simply experienced loss, you will be sure to find something moving and profound in these diverse tales of mourning, remembrance, and resilience.Trade Review“Women have learned to find fortitude in sharing the truth of their lives - not because we have the same truth, but because we find community and support there. The stories in this honest and loving book will give strength to those experiencing widowhood and wisdom to those trying to help them build the rest of their lives.” -- Suzanne Braun Levine * author Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood *“Widows’ Words is an invaluable tool for understanding loss, mourning and grief, and an equally fascinating and compelling read with diverse and varied points of views, which proved to me that every loss is unique yet universal. Nan Bauer-Maglin has brought together many strong female voices that both define and redefine the concept of 'widow.'" -- Jonathan Santlofer * author of The Widower's Notebook: A Memoir *“This collection is a comforting, necessary companion for the many, many women whose love outlasts their partners' lives. The stories are honest, unsentimental and as complicated and varied as marriages themselves.” -- Anna Sale * host of the WNYC Studios podcast Death, Sex & Money *"This heartfelt collection should help widows, and widowers as well, feel less alone as they move through a wrenching transition." * Publishers Weekly *"Expertly compiled and deftly edited by Nan Bauer-Maglin, "Widows' Words: Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between" is a unique and very highly recommended addition to both community and academic library collections." * Midwest Book Review *"Gentle, wry humor and strong advice that feels like it’s offered in a warm blanket and a hug. It all makes Widows’ Words a great reference and good comfort even though, for the newly bereaved, it can’t be­gin to cover everything." * Post News Group *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Prologue: Expectant Widows Alice Goode-Elman “What We Were Afraid Of: A Memoir” Kelli Dunham “The Queen Has Spoken” Penelope Dugan “Living a Life” Melanie K. Finney “Preparing for the Journey through Grief”Nan Bauer-Maglin “Deserted/Dumped for a Second TimRecent Widows Nan Bauer-Maglin “A Widow’s Notes: The First Six Months” “My Other Half: Raquel Ramkhelawan interviewed by Maxine Marshall” Lauren Vanett “The Cloak” Alice Derry “’The Most Precious Fit’— A Dialogue with C.S. Lewis’ A Grief Observed” Michele Neff Hernandez “On Grief” Elisa Clarke Wadham “Wedding Rings” Deborah E. Kaplan “The Afterlife of an Archive” P.C. Moorehead “A Healing Garden” Mimi Schwartz “You See, I Told You So!” Anne Bernays “Yes, I Miss My Husband, but I’m Also Discovering the Pleasures of Living Alone”Long-Time Widows Edie Butler “The Grief Convention” Debby Mayer “10 Scary Things I Have Done Since My Husband Died” Sonia Jaffe Robbins “Being Alone” Barbara E. Marwell “Recreating My Life” Maggie Madagame “Becoming Maggie” Roni Sherman Ramos “Who I Am Revealed” Doris Friedensohn “Losing the Artist, Living with His Art” Nancy H. Womack “After the Aftermath” Joan Michelson “Three Poems”Unique Takes or Digging Deeper Tracy Milcendeau with Merle Froschl, Andrea Hirshman, Molly McEneny, and Heather Slawecki “Widow-to-Widow” Kathleen Fordyce “Parenting as a Widow” Patricia Life “Memories of a Widow’s Daughter” Nancy Shamban “Lost Acts…..” Susanne Braham “Dealing with Double Loss: Husband and Hearing” Alice Radosh “Synchroncity and the Secular Mind” Parvin Hajizadeh “Mourning American-style” Jean Y. Leung “The Rocks that Bind” Joan Gussow “On Not Feeling Sad” Kathryn Temple “What They Do Not Tell You” Carrie L. West “Nine Things Resilient People Do After Losing a Spouse or Partner” Lise Menn “Make Lemonade?!” Epilogue Christine Silverstein “The Missing Vow” Acknowledgments Tara Sabharwal “Artist’s Statement” Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA fascinating biography, Carolyn G. Heilbrun: Feminist in a Tenured Position now includes a new epilogue that probes the painful mystery of Heilbrun's 2003 suicide. In her moving final chapter, Kress, whose sense of personal loss is palpable through these pages, balances a life story of extraordinary accomplishment with the troubling ending Heilbrun chose to give it. [This book] is a deeply satisfying account of a woman writer whose pioneering words and example inspired many women to change their lives." — Nancy K. MillerThe Graduate CenterCity University of New Yorkand, author of But Enough about Me: Why We Read Other People’s Lives"To her insightful meditation on the growth of a feminist’s mind, Susan Kress has added a brilliant epilogue that reveals surprising and moving facets of Carolyn Heilbrun’s life and work. A haunting posthumous tribute." — Susan GubarIndiana Universityis the, author of the forthcoming Rooms of Our Own

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Book SynopsisWhat would it mean to reorient the study of Haitian literature toward ethics rather than the themes of politics, engagement, disaster, or catastrophe? This volume engages with this question from a feminist perspective and, in the process, discovers a revelatory lens through which we can productively read the work of contemporary Haitian writers.

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Book SynopsisAddressing both actual historical women and fabricated representations of a type, Ellen Malenas Ledoux demonstrates how contingent ideas about the public sphere and maternity functioned together to create systems of power and privilege among working mothers.

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Book SynopsisProvides the first full-length exploration of Carrie Fisher's career as actress, writer, and advocate. Fisher's entangled relationship with the iconic Princess Leia is a focal point of this volume. The collection engages with the multiple interfaces between Fisher's most famous character and her other life-giving work.

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Book SynopsisFinalist, 2019 PROSE Award in Biography, given by the Association of American PublishersFifty years after the start of the women's liberation movement, a book that at last illuminates the profound impact Jewishness and second-wave feminism had on each other Jewish women were undeniably instrumental in shaping the women's liberation movement of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Yet historians and participants themselves have overlooked their contributions as Jews. This has left many vital questions unasked and unanswereduntil now. Delving into archival sources and conducting extensive interviews with these fierce pioneers, Joyce Antler has at last broken the silence about the confluence of feminism and Jewish identity.Antler's exhilarating new book features dozens of compelling biographical narratives that reveal the struggles and achievements of Jewish radical feminists in Chicago, New York and Boston, as well as those who participated in the later, self-consciously Trade ReviewFrom consciousness-raising groups, to health collectives, to militant lesbians and women standing up to religious patriarchy, historianAntlerspends time with the dozens of Jewish personalities of radical feminist movementswomen who challenged the structure of society far beyond the reach of laws. * Lilith *"Jewish women were a major force in second wave feminism in the 1960s and 1970s. [Antler] illuminates this previously underappreciated history and draws clear parallels to forces shaping contemporary political and social movements . . . A critical volume for feminist Jews to understand the past and a useful primary source for historians of feminism and Judaism. * Library Journal *Jewish Radical Feminism traces the emergence of [womens liberation] collectives, including in Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston, and the backgrounds of these bold and inspirational women and the influence their Jewish roots played in shaping their lives and views. It also tells a parallel story, that of Jewish women who, beginning in the 1970s, confronted the male-dominated Jewish institutions and transformed them. * The Jewish Journal *A captivating and timely new book... that brings to light, for the first time, the ways in which feminist trailblazers were influenced by their divergent and often unspoken Jewish backgrounds. * Jewish Telegraphic Agency *Antler broadens intersectional understandings about the day-to-day workings of the U.S. women’s movement in a period of intense activity and rapid change, and about the lives and thought processes of modern Jewish American women...the book is a remarkable achievement—a thorough and engaging study. * American Historical Review *Compelling, original, and urgent reexamination of the past . . . ReadingJewish Radical Feminismfeels like witnessing a collective in the making.Those deeply committed to understanding, learning from, and building on the vital social and civil rights movements of the pastwould do well to invest in this captivating history. * Contemporary Jewry *Its reassuring to learn how these iconic women navigated their own struggles with multiple identities in their own time, and to recognize the tremendous contributions they made, even from outside the mainstream. * Forward *Antler is a deservedly esteemed historian, a complex thinker, a compelling storyteller, and a feminist with a flair, who, once again, has expanded the terrain of women's history and the history of feminism, especially second-wave feminism, American-Jewish history, the history of radicalism, the Left, histories of anti-Semitism, and multiculturalism. Jewish Radical Feminism transforms our understandings of late twentieth-century social activism and offers a powerful corrective to narrow notions of identity feminism and Judaism. -- Journal of American HistoryAntler’s thorough and meticulously researched study examines the convergence of Jewishness and activism through a nuanced analysis of Jewish radical feminism and Jewish feminism. Antler demonstrates how these two streams of feminist activism are simultaneously distinct and intricately woven together. -- Journal of Religion and CultureThe most profound reasonJewish Radical Feminismshould be widely read is that it puts many current disputes about gender and Jewish identity into long perspective. * Tablet *Antler is a first-rate historian. Her work manages to answer the question of Jewish women’s representation and self-understanding in the context of feminist movements without either overgeneralizing or individualizing; the answers were not the same for everyone but neither were they wholly unique to each person. Jewish Radical Feminism collects and tells stories from a feminist movement whose importance continues to affect American Jewish life. -- H-Net ReviewsJoyce Antler offers us a new understanding of the struggles, themes, accomplishments, and failures of my generation. It's a remarkable synthesis of landmark moments in late-20th Century Jewish feminism and an important contribution to the history of women. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin,author and co-founder of Ms. MagazineAntler complicates histories of feminist activism by revealing the presence of Jewishness in the backgrounds of dozens of influential radical women. * Studies in Contemporary Jewry *Antler’s work makes visible Jewish feminists contributions to Jewish history and women’s history; the interviews also served to make some of the participants' Jewish identity more visible to themselves. -- CHOICEDisplayed over the interior pages are the labeled photographs of forty seminal radical American feminists who advocated for change from both inside and outside the Jewish community...never before has a scholar brought these diverse voices together to explore the impact of Jewishness on these women’s actions and life choices. * Journal of Jewish Identities *Antler is a first-rate historian. Her work manages to answer the question of Jewish women’s representation and self-understanding in the context of feminist movements without either overgeneralizing or individualizing; the answers were not the same for everyone but neither were they wholly unique to each person. Jewish Radical Feminism collects and tells stories from a feminist movement whose importance continues to affect American Jewish life. * H-Net Reviews *Joyce Antler provocatively explores the special qualities of being Jewish and Feminist in the 1960s and 70s. She cogently unwinds the personal stories of leading activists to trace how intertwined identities produced powerful political consequences. This enjoyable and illuminating book will encourage readers to probe their own complicated heritages. -- Alice Kessler-Harris,author of A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian HellmanThis is an utterly absorbing and valuable book. Having the insight and courage to probe many questions unasked before, and not trying to press the answers into a simple story or a single model, Antler succeeds beautifully in illuminating the underrecognized ways in which feminist convictions have been related to Jewishness. Her oral interviews with scores of women having differing levels of Jewish attachment provide the books mainspring, and supply original perspectives on matters from the 1960s New Left to the 1980s World Conferences on Women. -- Nancy F. Cott,author of The Grounding of Modern FeminismThis is the book we've been waiting for. Based on exhaustive historical scholarship and written with elegance and grace, Joyce Antler has given us the gift of knowledge, ending the silence about Jewish feminists and feminist Jews. -- Ruth Rosen,author of The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America

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Book SynopsisExplores a range of cultural representations of incest, from the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to mother-daughter incest in contemporary true crime novels, to Oprah Winfrey's television special Scared Silent, in order to examine expressions of survivorship.

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Book SynopsisThis is a study of Arab writers such as Ghada al-Samman, Hanan al-Shaikh, Emily Nasrallah and Etel Adnan. It presents a constructive literary approach to the ravages of the civil war in the Lebanon. The ways in which women's consciousness is awakened in terms of female liberation is a theme.

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Book SynopsisCharts the arc of the Egyptian women’s movement, capturing the changing dynamics of gender activism over the course of two decades. Tadros explores the interface between feminist movements, Islamist forces, and three regime ruptures in the battle over women’s status in Egyptian society and politics.Trade ReviewTadros’s study of the Egyptian women’s movement following 2011 explains its ‘red lines’ while providing rich and nuanced empirical analysis of the women’s movement’s organizational, ideological, and legal challenges.""—Diane Singerman, editor of Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity""An important contribution to the literature on women’ s movements in the Arab world as well as to theoretical debates about transitions to democracy and collective action.""—Hoda Elsadda, author of Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel: Egypt, 1892–2008

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Book SynopsisIn this work, young feminists born between the years 1964 and 1973, discuss the things that they consider matter now - both in looking at the accomplishments and failures of the past, and in planning for the future.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"These are crucial manifestos that changed the discourse and clarified our situation in the postmodern in stunning and beautiful ways. That we are animal and machine and human and full of potential is Donna Haraway’s enduring and inspirational message."—Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Aurora and the Mars trilogy "Here Donna Haraway’s manifestos are marvelously composted in the rich humus of reflection, erudition, and reasons for laughter that makes thinking with other people so generative. The brilliance that sparks between Cary Wolfe and Haraway illuminates everything that is between, around, underneath, and beside two most profound moments in critical thought."—Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge "Donna Haraway’s essays are invitations to scientists, artists, and everyone-who-must-improvise for respectful play with chimeras, hybrids, cyborgs, GMOs, holobionts, mosaics, allies, and fusions. They are invitations to generate new creative relationships for flourishing during and after the Anthropocene. As always, when presented with essays by Haraway, accept the invitation at the risk of becoming a different person."—Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College"The social relations of science was a whole movement in the 1930s...It did not survive the cold war purges of intellectual life. Science studies has reinvented many of its themes and in many ways improved upon them. Yet perhaps, as Haraway once noted in passing, the “liberal mystification that all started with Thomas Kuhn…” has erased a little too much of its radical past. We are very fortunate that Donna Haraway and her kith reinvented it."—Public Seminar"Unusual and exciting. Every word adds a new detail, facet, nuance, reflection, to an infinitely detailed, faceted, nuanced reality."—London Review of Books"Manifestly Haraway is a timely and necessary publication in response to our own political moment if we are to link up with past failures, and explore new affinities for the future."—Arcadia"Widely influential."—Science Fiction Studies"Important, feminist, bio-political work."—Annals of Science "Manifestly Haraway is illuminating and engaging. Donna Haraway contextualizes the manifestos and considers how some of these early ideas are developing alongside fresh concepts and influences." —SociologyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction Cary WolfeThe ManifestosA Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant OthernessCompanions in ConversationDonna J. Haraway and Cary WolfeAcknowledgmentsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Explicating complex theories in accessible ways, Asha Nadkarni explores the link between feminism and nationalism through the lens of women’s reproduction. Eugenic Feminism adds to the debates over continued feminist investments in maternalist nationalism and in population control that negatively effect the women most marginal to the nation." —Monisha Das Gupta, author of Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Eugenic Feminism and the Problem of National Development1. Perfecting Feminism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Eugenic Utopias2. Regenerating Feminism: Sarojini Naidu's Eugenic Feminist Renaissance3. "World Menace": National Reproduction, Public Health, and the Mother India Debate4. The Vanishing Peasant Mother: Reimagining Mother India for the 1950s5. Severed Limbs, Severed Legacies: Indira Gandhi's Emergency and the Problem of SubalternityEpilogue: Transnational Surrogacy and the Neoliberal Mother IndiaAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Black Reproductive is a stunning work of theory and criticism. Sara Clarke Kaplan skillfully shows us how the appropriation, management, and policing of Black procreative, domestic, and quotidian reproduction has been a key mode of anti-blackness and, at the same time, a site of possibility for the articulation and practice of Black freedom. With keen attention to a wide range of policies, practices, and Black feminist refusals of the Black reproductive, Kaplan unfolds a moving story of the Black woman’s body and its reproductive labor as the scene of death and theft but also defiance and fugitivity. This brilliant elaboration of the Black reproductive not only challenges our concepts for analyzing anti-black terror but also reveals how Black women writers and artists effect a glitch in the machine of the Black reproductive, the very machine of terror. This is deep, urgent, moving scholarship for our time."—Erica R. Edwards, Rutgers University"If the control of Black reproduction has been central to conditions of Black subjection, Sara Clarke Kaplan’s The Black Reproductive argues that a vision of Black freedom requires contending with the reproductive. She stages provocative readings of literary and cultural texts that emphasize the urgency of reading Black freedom through the lens of reproduction. Ultimately, Kaplan offers a vision of Black feminist theory that points us toward imagining collective freedom."—Jennifer C. Nash, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Toward a Black Feminist Politics of Freedom1. Ain’t Your Mama on the Pancake Box?: Aunt Jemima and the Reproduction of the Racial State2. Love and Violence/Maternity and Death: Enslaved Infanticide and Monstrous Motherhood in Toni Morrison’s Beloved3. Hysterical Bodies as Embodied History: Corregidora’s Genealogy of Resistance4. Our Founding (M)Other: Sally Hemings and the Problem of Miscegenation5. “A Picture of Me and my Mother”: Planned Parenthood, Precious, and the Rationalization of Black ReproductivityCoda: Lest We Forget: A Litany for SurvivalAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Black Reproductive is a stunning work of theory and criticism. Sara Clarke Kaplan skillfully shows us how the appropriation, management, and policing of Black procreative, domestic, and quotidian reproduction has been a key mode of anti-blackness and, at the same time, a site of possibility for the articulation and practice of Black freedom. With keen attention to a wide range of policies, practices, and Black feminist refusals of the Black reproductive, Kaplan unfolds a moving story of the Black woman’s body and its reproductive labor as the scene of death and theft but also defiance and fugitivity. This brilliant elaboration of the Black reproductive not only challenges our concepts for analyzing anti-black terror but also reveals how Black women writers and artists effect a glitch in the machine of the Black reproductive, the very machine of terror. This is deep, urgent, moving scholarship for our time."—Erica R. Edwards, Rutgers University"If the control of Black reproduction has been central to conditions of Black subjection, Sara Clarke Kaplan’s The Black Reproductive argues that a vision of Black freedom requires contending with the reproductive. She stages provocative readings of literary and cultural texts that emphasize the urgency of reading Black freedom through the lens of reproduction. Ultimately, Kaplan offers a vision of Black feminist theory that points us toward imagining collective freedom."—Jennifer C. Nash, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Toward a Black Feminist Politics of Freedom1. Ain’t Your Mama on the Pancake Box?: Aunt Jemima and the Reproduction of the Racial State2. Love and Violence/Maternity and Death: Enslaved Infanticide and Monstrous Motherhood in Toni Morrison’s Beloved3. Hysterical Bodies as Embodied History: Corregidora’s Genealogy of Resistance4. Our Founding (M)Other: Sally Hemings and the Problem of Miscegenation5. “A Picture of Me and my Mother”: Planned Parenthood, Precious, and the Rationalization of Black ReproductivityCoda: Lest We Forget: A Litany for SurvivalAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary, multifaceted look at feminist engagements with governance across the global North and global SouthGovernance Feminism: Notes from the Field brings together nineteen chapters from leading feminist scholars and activists to critically describe and assess contemporary feminist engagements with state and state-like power. GaTable of ContentsContentsIntroductionJanet HalleyPart I. Feminism Wields the Sword1. Feminist Governance and International Law: From Liberal to Carceral FeminismKaren Engle2. The Politics of Sex, Rights, and Freedom in Contemporary Antitrafficking CampaignsElizabeth Bernstein3. The Charybdis of Rape Myth DiscourseHelen Reece4. Governance Feminism in New York’s Human Trafficking Intervention CourtsAmy J. Cohen and Aya Gruber5. An Accidental Governance Feminist: An Interview with Kate MogulescuAmy J. Cohen and Aya Gruber6. The Unintended Consequences of Domestic Violence Criminalization: Reassessing a Governance Feminist Success StoryLeigh GoodmarkPart II. The Long March through the Institutions7. Governing Sex through BureaucracyJacob Gersen and Jeannie Suk Gersen8. Feminism, Law, and Epidemiology in the AIDS ResponseAziza Ahmed9. Contesting Feminism’s Institutional Doubles: Troubling the Security Council’s Women Peace and Security AgendaDianne Otto10. Sex Quotas and Burkini BansDarren RosenblumPart III: Ideological Trajectories for GFeminists11. From Bad to Worse Via a Successful Constitutional Challenge: The Tragedy of Feminist Engagement with Prostitution Law Reform in CanadaMariana Valverde12. “You Play, You Pay”: Feminists and Child Support Enforcement in the United StatesLibby Adler and Janet Halley13. Governance Feminism in the French Republic: Veils, Parité, and FeministsMaleiha Malik14. Gay Governance: A Queer CritiqueAeyal GrossPart IV. Postcolonial Feminists in Global/Local Struggle15. Governance Feminism’s Others: Sex Workers and India’s Rape Law ReformsPrabha Kotiswaran16. A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Consonance in PakistanVanja Hamzić17. Finding and Losing Feminism in Transition: The Costs of the Continuum Hypothesis for Women in ColombiaIsabel Cristina Jaramillo-Sierra18. Follow the Numbers: Global Governmentality and the Violence against Women Agenda in Occupied PalestineRema Hammami19. Indebted: The Cruel Optimism of Leaning-in to EmpowermentVasuki NesiahAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisContributors to this volume highlight continuities in feminist rhetorical practices that are often invisible to scholars, obscured by time, new media, and wildly different cultural, political, and social contexts. Thus, this collection takes a nonchronological approach to the study of feminist rhetoric, grouping chapters by rhetorical practice.Trade Review“This collection puts forward a groundbreaking methodology for exploring connections between feminist texts across time. Asking critics to momentarily suspend context, content, and media, the contributors foreground similarities between rhetorical strategies that emerged at different moments of feminist activism. This method enables critics to see the interstitial and intersectional relationships between and among feminist rhetorics of all eras, arguments, and media. This methodology enables critics to put into conversation Victorian novels with #LikeALadyDoc, Ida B. Wells with #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, Jane Addams with #EuEmpregadaDomÉstica, women telegraphers with women coders, and early birth control technology with HIV prevention drugs.” —Belinda A. Stillion Southard, author of How to Belong: Women’s Agency in a Transnational World “In their beautifully conceived and timely anthology, Feminist Connections, Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, and Jessica Ouellette manage what has seemed to be impossible. They have successfully disrupted feminist reception histories while seamlessly illuminating feminist social movement histories, feminist rhetorical strategies (both means and tools), and feminist technological epistemologies. Their collection, anchored in a method they refer to as Rhetorical Transversal Methodology (or RTM), prompts readers to face twenty-first-century questions of feminist rhetorical practices; historiographic relationships, intersections, and trajectories; and the constitution of digital work itself.” —Cheryl Glenn, University Distinguished Professor of English at Penn State University and author most recently of Rhetorical Feminism and This Thing Called HopeTable of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword: Writing against Reactionary Logics by Tarez Samra Graban Acknowledgments Introduction. Exposing Feminist Connections by Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, and Jessica Ouellette Part I. Revisionary Rhetorics by Kerri Hauman Chapter 1. Seneca Falls, Strategic Mythmaking, and a Feminist Politics of Relation by Jill Swiencicki, Maria Brandt, Barbara LeSavoy, and Deborah Uman Chapter 2. Epideictic Rhetoric and Emergent Media: From CAM to BLM by Tara Propper Chapter 3. Recruitment Tropes: Historicizing the Spaces and Bodies of Women Technical Workers by Risa Applegarth, Sarah Hallenbeck, and Chelsea Redeker Milbourne Chapter 4. Take Once Daily: Queer Theory, Biopolitics, and the Rhetoric of Personal Responsibility by Kellie Jean Sharp Part II. Circulatory Rhetorics by Jessica Ouellette Chapter 5. She's Everywhere, All the Time: How the #Dispatch Interviews Created a Sisterhood of Feminist Travelers by Kristin Winet Chapter 6. From Victorian Novels to #LikeALadyDoc: Women Physicians Strengthening Professional Ethos in the Public Sphere by Kristin E. Kondrlik Chapter 7. Feminist Rhetorical Strategies and Networked Activist Movements: #SayHerName as Circulatory Activist Discourse by Liz Lane Chapter 8. From US Progressive Era Speeches to Transnational Social Media Activism: Rhetorical Empathy in Jane Addams's Labor Rhetoric and Joyce Fernandes's #EuEmpregadaDomÉstica (I, Housemaid) by Lisa Blankenship Part III. Response Rhetorics by Katherine Fredlund Chapter 9. “Anonymous Was a Woman”: Anonymous Authorship as Rhetorical Strategy by Skye Roberson Chapter 10. Tracing the Conversation: Legitimizing Mormon Feminism by Tiffany Kinney Chapter 11. The Suffragist Movement and the Early Feminist Blogosphere: Feminism and Recent History of Rhetoric by Clancy Ratliff Chapter 12. Mikki Kendall, Ida B. Wells, and #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen: Women of Color Calling Out White Feminism in the Nineteenth Century and the Digital Age by Paige V. Banaji Chapter 13. The Persuasive Power of Individual Stories: The Rhetoric in Narrative Archives by Bethany Mannon Afterword. (Techno)Feminist Rhetorical Action: Coming Full Circle by Kristine L. Blair Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn excellent collection of articles exploring the role of journalism in creating, maintaining, and developing the analysis and membership of the first wave of American feminism. Drawing on theories of social movements from the discipline of communications, this volume, expertly edited by Martha Solomon, begins with the relationship between the suffrage movement and newspapers.... Seven useful case studies follow. Historians will benefit from this volume's meticulous documentation of a plethora of publications and its discussion of their rhetorical strategies. - Signs: The Journal of Women in Culture and Society; ""A work of great historical interest... well-edited and well-annotated.

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Book SynopsisThis is an arresting and moving personal story about childhood, race, and identity in the American South, rendered in stunning illustrations by the author, Lila Quintero Weaver. It chronicles what it was like being a Latina girl in the Jim Crow South, struggling to understand both a foreign country and the horrors of our nation's race relations.Table of ContentsContents Author's Note Prologue: Home Movies Chapter 1: In the Dark Chapter 2: Passage Chapter 3: Blending In Chatper 4: Ginny\u2019s Books Chapter 5: Ancestral Lines Chapter 6: An American Education Chapter 7: Dear Argentina Chapter 8: Good News, Bad News Chapter 9: Know Alabama Chapter 10: School Lessons Epilogue: Long Night\u2019s Journey into Day Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisFrankie Welch (1924-2021) combined a creative mind and an entrepreneurial spirit to establish herself as a leading American textile, accessories, and fashion designer in a career that spanned four decades, from the 1960s through the 1990s. This lavishly illustrated book provides a lively account of her life and career.Trade ReviewFrankie Welch’s Americana introduces readers to the ultimate Washington insider. With charm, skill, and entrepreneurial zeal, Welch worked her way into the closets of first ladies and other political women as a stylist, personal shopper, and designer of campaign fashions. Ashley Callahan’s lively telling of the story of Welch’s career makes an important contribution to the story of American design." - Susan Brown

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Book SynopsisHow have Black women fostered belonging in higher education institutions that have persisted in marginalizing them? Focusing on the career of Lucy Diggs Slowe, this book examines how her philosophy of ‘living more abundantly’ envisioned educational access and institutionalized campus thriving for Black college women.

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Book SynopsisOur Lady of Victorian Feminism is about three nineteenth-century women (Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot), Protestants by background and feminists by conviction, who are curiously and crucially linked by their extensive use of the Madonna in arguments designed to empower women.Trade Review“Adams’s pioneering work in nineteenth-century feminist theology puts her at the forefront of an expanding new field of scholarship.”

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Book SynopsisBrings a maverick perspective and provocative voice to the issues of contemporary painting, gender representation, and feminist artTrade Review“Far more than a collection of random essays, Schor’s deliciously titled Wet is a cohesive and lively group of writings addressing issues central to the practice and theory of postmodern art. One is compelled to respect her passion and eloquence and to enjoy her rhetorical flair. Wet is a ‘must’ for all scholars, critics, and artists interested in the contemporary art scene.”—Amelia Jones, author of Postmodernism and the En-gendering of Marcel Duchamp“Mira Schor’s collected critical art essays are witty, insightful, incisive. As artist, writer, and magazine editor, she shows us cracks in the art world’s walls. She is up-to-date, on target. In a controversial field, she is a bold and confrontational critic.”—Nancy Spero, artist“Wet is a great read. Schor is gloriously fierce, often hilarious, and has boldly trod on powerful, or at least fashionably clad toes.” -- Erica Rand * Bookforum *“Where have all the feminists gone? Let us hope they are all putting together collections like this one by Schor, a painter, writer and teacher at the Parsons School of Design…. Feminist, artists and other keepers of our subversives fires will certainly find a home in this inspiring collection.” * Publishers Weekly *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Unsettled Subjects will establish Susan Lurie as a central figure within feminist and postcolonialist theory as she intervenes courageously within perhaps the most heated and long-lasting of feminist debates.”—Kaja Silverman, University of California, Berkeley“The critical project of Unsettled Subjects is both necessary and daring. It articulates the postmodern impasse for white feminism that deconstruction’s destabilizing of the category ‘woman’ has generated and, through very thorough readings of modern American women writers, demonstrates how this impasse may be overcome.”—Lora Romero, Stanford University

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction / Silvestra Mariniello 1 1. Transgressing Representation: Women's Ways Against Institutional Knowledge Responsibility / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 19 The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Post-Date / Hortense J. Spillers 67 The Uses and Abuses of French Discourse Theories for Feminist Politics / Nancy Fraser 123 Veiled Threats: Malek Alloula's Colonial Harem / Laura Rice 144 2. Undoing Discursive Constructions: Alternative Rhetorical Strategies Maternal Discourse and the Romance of Self-Possession in Kate Chopin's The Awakening / Ivy Schweitzer 161 America, "Fat," the Fetus / Lauren Berlant 192 Queer Nationality / Lauren Berlant and Elizabeth Freeman 245 "The Most Suffering Class": Gender, Class, and Consciousness in Pre-Marxist France / Margaret Cohen 279 Brava! And Farewell to Greatheart / Judith Wilt 306 3. The Politics of Allegory: A New Understanding of Agency Allegory and Dialectics: A Match Made in Romance / Doris Sommer 325 Blanchot's Au moment voulu: Woman as the Eternally Recurring Figure of Writing / Larysa Mykyta 349 Wuthering Heights: At the Threshold of Interpretation / Carol Jacobs 371 The Geography of Enunciation: Hysterical Pastiche in Kathy Acker's Fiction / Karen Brennan 396 Index 423

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Book SynopsisA key participant in all the major debates in Latin American studies - beginning with the "boom" period of the 1960s and continuing through debates on ideology and discourse, Marxism, mass culture, and postmodernism - the author is recognised for her feminist critique of Latin American writing. This book offers a selection of her essays.Trade Review“A formidable compendium of Franco’s critical thought, attesting to the evolution of a brilliant avant-garde intellectual who has set the pace for serious inquiry in the Latin American field as we know it today. Critical Passions is not simply a tribute to Franco but an urgent recounting of the progression of a field of study that she has helped shape.”—Francine Masiello, author of Between Civilization and Barbarism: Women, Nation, and Literary Culture in Modern Argentina“Pratt and Newman have done the critical readership an immense service by collecting these far-flung essays by one of our foremost critics. This learned feminist touches upon issues of history and identity, of cultural politics and the study of globality, from a political perspective that remains resolutely focused on social justice.”—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present“The essays collected in this volume reflect the range, innovativeness, theoretical clarity, and analytical power that have made Jean Franco’s work a beacon of light in the study of Latin American culture.”—Susan Kirkpatrick, author of Las Romanticas: Women Writers and Subjectivity in SpainTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: The Committed Critic / Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman 1 1 Feminism and the Critique of Authoritarianism 9 2 Mass and Popular Culture 133 3 Latin American Literature: The Boom and Beyond 233 4 Mexico 429 Afterword: The Twighlight of the Vanguard and the Rise of Criticism (1994-1995) 503 Biographical Note 517 Index 519

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Book SynopsisTales of child sacrifice, demon lovers, incestual relations, and returns from the dead are part of English and Irish gothic literature. This book shows how Anglo-Irish gothic works written from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries reflect the destructive effects of imperialism on the children.Trade Review“A compelling history of the Anglo-Irish gothic tradition that is ambitious, convincing, and valuable.”—Mary Favret, Indiana University“Backus’s fresh and unexpected insights into Irish Gothic texts along with the sophisticated and contemporary theoretical base of her argument should ensure this book an important place in Irish studies.”—Ann Owens Weekes, University of Arizona“With extraordinary analytic clarity, Margot Backus sifts the troubling evidence of three centuries and offers valuable commentary on writings from Swift to Jennifer Johnston, from Edmund Burke to Frank McGuinness. This book resonates with grand ideas.”—Declan Kiberd, University College DublinTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 The Other Half of the Story: English and Irish Social Formations, 1550-1700 2 "Does she not deserve to Pay for All This?" Compulsory Romance in the Constricting Family Cell 3 "Something Valuable of Their Own": Children, Reporduction, and Irony in Swift, Burke, and Edgeworth 4 "A Very Strange Agony": Parables of Sexual Subject Formation in Melmoth the Wanderer, Carmilla, and Dracula 5 Irish Gothic Realism and the Great War: The Devil's bargain and the Demon Lover 6 Somebody Else's Troubles: Post-treaty Retrenchment and the (Burning) Big House Novel 7 "Perhaps I may Come Live": Mother Ireland and the Unfinished Revolution Conclusion Notes BIbliography Index

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Book SynopsisAnecdote and 'theory' have diametrically opposed connotations: humorous versus serious, specific versus general, trivial versus overarching, and short versus grand. This work addresses major questions of feminist theory. It explains that for the practice of anecdotal theory derives from the lineages of psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and feminism.Trade Review“Gallop is our foremost comic theorist. Anecdotal theory, as she observes, is theory with a better sense of humor. Gallop shows us how to be smart and rigorous precisely by refusing to ‘get serious,’ explaining how that imperative in fact makes literary critics relinquish what we do best. Lightening up without in any way producing theory ’lite’: this is one formulation of Gallop’s goal and considerable accomplishment, both here and throughout her career.”—Joseph Litvak, author of Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory, and the Novel“Jane Gallop’s essays are lucid, bold, and timely: she gives us our time through a series of brilliant lenses. I’m always grateful for the intelligence, the edge, and the generosity of her vision. We would all be more lost without her.”—Judith Butler, author of Gender Trouble"[Gallop's] explorations resonate for us all. . . . [Anectodal Theory] interrogates its own narrative with . . . formidable wit and intellectual rigor . . . . Moving and provocative . . . ." -- Cora Kaplan * Women's Review of Books *Table of ContentsAnecdotal Theory; I The Incident; The Teacher's Breasts; The lecherous Professor: A Reading; The Personal and the Professional: Walking the Line; Resisting Reasonableness; II The Stories; A Tales of Two Jacques; Knot a Love Story; Dating Derrida in the Nineties; Castration Anxiety and the Unemployed PhD; Econstructing Sisterhood; Afterwords

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Book SynopsisArgues that the psychoanalytic self was constituted through the specifically national-colonial encounters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and that therefore somewhat paradoxically perhaps, psychoanalysis is crucial for understanding postcoloniality and decolonization.Trade Review“Ranjana Khanna articulates and outlines a transnational feminist ethics. Such an ethics is badly needed and awaited with eagerness by many. Dark Continents is, indeed, a terrific integration of psychoanalytic thought with postcolonial and feminist politics by way of a critical intimacy with the combined ethics of ambiguity and difference.“—Mieke Bal, University of AmsterdamTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Worlding Psychoanalysis 1 Genealogies 1. Psychoanalysis and Archaeology 33 2. Freud in the Sacred Grove 66 Colonial Rescriptings 3. War, Decolonization, Psychoanalysis 99 4. Colonial Melancholy 145 Haunting and the Future 5. The Ethical Ambiguities of Transnational Feminism 207 6. Hamlet in the Colonial Archive 231 Coda: The Lament 269 Notes 275 Index 303

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Book SynopsisA study of Black feminist activism and organizations that challenges the prevailing academic and popular assumption that Black women have avoided feminist political ideology as irrelevant to their lives and the liberation of Black communities.Trade Review“Living for the Revolution is a fabulous book with rich data and fine analysis. To date, nothing has been written that fills this particular historical vacuum. African American women’s participation in the feminist movement has only been told from the point of view of white feminists or in bits and pieces by others.”—Belinda Robnett, author of How Long? How Long? African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights“Living for the Revolution will force scholars working on either the women’s movement or black liberation to change their standard narrative.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination“Springer’s discussion of the activities of the next generation . . . helps keep hope alive and the political fires burning. But the difficulties facing formal black feminist organizing need close scrutiny of new organization are ever to spring up and thrive. We must understand the whys and how s of their predecessors’ demise as well as of their growth and legacy. This book makes an exhilarating contribution to this process.” -- Tricia Rose * Women's Review of Books *“The arrival of Kimberly Springer's Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 invites scholars to include gender and women activists in their discussions of the African-American political landscape between the Second Reconstruction and the Reagan revolution. Though speaking more explicitly to feminist historiography and organizational theory, Springer's study of five prominent Black feminist organizations signals a turn in our academic approach to the liberation struggle.” -- Elizabeth Hinton * Souls *Table of ContentsOrganizational Abbreviations vii Acknowledgments ix 1. The Soul of Women's Lib 1 2. No longer Divided against Ourselves 45 3. Barbecue and Bake Sales Won't Fund a Movement 65 4. Black Women's Issues as Feminist Issues 88 5. Black Feminist Identities in Contestation 113 6. War-Weary Warriors 139 Conclusion 168 Epilogue 173 Appendix A: Interviews by Organization 181 Appendix B: Interview Questions 183 Appendix C: Statements of Purpose 185 Notes 191 Index 217

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Book SynopsisIncludes sixteen colour photographs; images from Joanna in the Desert, a 2006 collaboration between Frueh and the photographer Jill O'Bryan; and several photographs of Frueh performing.Trade Review“Clairvoyance (For Those In The Desert) is an artful, insightful, and important collection of performance texts by artist and scholar Joanna Frueh. Indeed, Clairvoyance could be considered an essential primer for feminists.” -- Joanna Chlebus * Feminist Review blog *“Clairvoyance couples the strength of her words and the stage direction, to give the reader quite a vivid look into the life of this exceptional artist.” -- Jenna V. Loceff * Curve *“[A] a beautiful and very pink 400-page tome that looks great on a coffee table. . . . Clairvoyance is a great place to start learning about not just 20th-century performance art, but also about one of the more intriguing and unheralded performance artists of our time.” -- Jarret Keene * Tucson Weekly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Nota Bena xv Fucking Hot: An Introduction / Jill O'Brien 4 Joanna Frueh's Writing The Concupiscent Critic (1979) 51 BRUMAS (1982) Lyrics and text by Joanna Frueh, music by Thomas Hochheiser 57 Justifiable Anger (1982–83) ) Lyrics and text by Joanna Frueh, music by Thomas Hochheiser 76 Dual Conception (1983) Written by Joanna Frueh for a piece to be performed by Frueh and Thomas Kochheiser 93 Solar Shores (1984) ) Lyrics and text by Joanna Frueh, music by Thomas Hochheiser 108 A Few Erotic Faculties (1985–86) 121 Clairvoyance (For Those in The Desert) (1985–86) ) Lyrics and text by Joanna Frueh, music by Thomas Hochheiser 152 Breathing (1988) A Proposal for a Performance by Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley, written by Frueh 168 Vermilion (1988) 169 Mouth Piece (1989) 180 Amazing Grace (1990) Written and Performed by Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley 209 Pythia (1994) 225 Dressing Aphrodite (1997) 251 Sade, My Sweet, My Truffle; or, Giving a Fuck (1999) 278 The Aesthetics of Orgasm (2002) 287 Voyaging to Cythera (2003) 312 The Performance of Pink (2003) 319 Ambrosia (2004) 326 Shaking out the Dead: An Afterword by Joanna Frueh 337 Joanna Frueh Performance Chronology (1979—2005) 353 Key Readings from Joanna Frueh's Childhood to the Present 363

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Book SynopsisLisa Cartwright contributes to feminist film theory by developing a new psychoanalytic theory of spectatorship and human subjectivity.Trade Review“Moral Spectatorship is an important and brave book that dares to consider the formation of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in cinema (and life) through concepts such as feeling, affect, dependency, and care. Drawing upon psychoanalytic theory (not Lacan’s), Lisa Cartwright writes with both passion and skepticism about—and around—a selection of films that foreground the radically ethical nature of human communication, reminding us that film studies can change not only the way we see films but also the way we view our lives.”—Vivian Sobchack, author of Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture“Uncovering alternative traditions in the psychoanalytic study of affect and object relations, while pairing them with deep explorations of American and continental moral philosophy, Lisa Cartwright proposes a series of arguments that will radically remap our understanding of spectatorship and identification. Moral Spectatorship is a path-breaking book and perhaps the first entirely new approach to subject, empathy, and affect in visual cultural studies to have appeared in the new millennium.”—D. N. Rodowick, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Spectatorship, Affect, and Representation 1 1. Moral Spectatorship: Rethinking Identification in Film Theory 11 2. The (Deaf) Woman's Film and the Quiet Revolution in Film Sound: On Projection, Incorporation, and Voice 51 3. "A Child Is Being Beaten": Disorders of Authorship, Agency, and Affect in Facilitated Communication 157 Conclusion: On Empathy and Moral Spectatorship 229 Notes 241 References 255 Index 281

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Book SynopsisReflections on how Americans are constrained by cultural scripts for age-, race-, and gender-proper emotional behavior and how our increasingly media-saturated culture impoverishes our interior lives.Trade Review“. . .Woodward makes a valuable contribution to the study of popular culture. She exhaustively contextualizes her work in that of the technology and media scholars (in addition to the affective scholars) who have come before her, while still managing to add a new narrative all her own that clarifies her paradoxical approach.” - Caroline Hagood, Journal of Popular Culture“The recent surge in interest in emotions from every imaginable discipline is richly explored in Kathleen Woodward’s lively new book, Statistical Panic.” - Maura Spiegel, American Literature“Woodward herself writes clearly in an almost ‘good-neighborly’ mode, and one can easily enough imagine talking with her over the backyard fence about life's difficulties. . . . The virtue of the book is clear: sociologists do not ‘own’ the ills of contemporary life in advanced societies, and when an English professor examines the same phenomena as do social scientists, but without the hindrances of methodological apparatus, genuinely useful notions become apparent that seldom make themselves known in conventional sociological research reports.” - Contemporary Sociology“Statistical Panic offers a critical exploration of emotions, how they are used for political gain, how they normatively reinforce social inequality, and how their subversion can combat the same inequalities. Woodward offers emotions as a source of political and social mobility, and her writing challenges us to be critical of the way statistical panic is used. She urges us complicate our understanding of our own emotional responses to everything from personal relationships to Twitter feeds.” - Lizzy Shramko, Feminist Review blog“If this reviewer were to recommend one current book to those in the emotion-science community, it would be this marvelous, wise collection of essays. Although nominally a work of literary and cultural criticism, the volume provides those interested in emotion in any discipline with a fresh exploration of the intersection of culture, emotions, and technology. . . . A deeply humane, gracefully written work of keen intelligence, this book is a critical resource for those interested in understanding emotions as represented in literature and as lived in daily life and in investigating what emotions reveal about human nature. Essential.” - R. R. Cornelius, Choice“Feelings have political consequences. Statistical Panic offers complexly layered readings of writers whose works have exposed the intimate connections between private sorrows and contemporary social realities, memoir and public policy, autobiography and theory: Joan Didion’s portrait of grief, Freud’s and Woolf’s anatomies of anger, Paul Monette’s affecting narrative of lives lost to AIDS, Morrison’s searing exposure of racial injustice. Kathleen Woodward has created a compassionate criticism for our post-September 11 world.”—Nancy K. Miller, author of But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People’s Lives“Kathleen Woodward has written a clear, impassioned, and theoretically sophisticated argument that bridges the conceptual gulf separating psychoanalytical explanations for emotion from other models—most notably, Raymond Williams’s ‘structures of feeling’—that assume emotion is cultural in origin and susceptible to historical change. In a sequence of compelling examples—beginning with the anger characterizing first-wave feminists and peaking in what she calls ‘bureaucratic rage’—this book sets opposing concepts of emotion in a dialectic that reveals their interdependence. Woodward makes a powerful case, on the one hand, that the emotional intensities held responsible for a perceived ‘waning of affect’ during the twentieth century may also provide a basis for new affective communities. On the other hand, by looking at emotion through the lens of contemporary culture, she persuades me to see the emotions we come to share through the intimacy of literary autobiography as translations of the intensities generated by an intricately bureaucratized, mass-mediated society.”—Nancy Armstrong, Duke University“[W]oodward makes a valuable contribution to the study of popular culture. She exhaustively contextualizes her work in that of the technology and media scholars (in addition to the affective scholars) who have come before her, while still managing to add a new narrative all her own that clarifies her paradoxical approach.” -- Caroline Hagood * Journal of Popular Culture *“Statistical Panic offers a critical exploration of emotions, how they are used for political gain, how they normatively reinforce social inequality, and how their subversion can combat the same inequalities. Woodward offers emotions as a source of political and social mobility, and her writing challenges us to be critical of the way statistical panic is used. She urges us complicate our understanding of our own emotional responses to everything from personal relationships to Twitter feeds.” -- Lizzy Shramko * Feminist Review blog *“If this reviewer were to recommend one current book to those in the emotion-science community, it would be this marvelous, wise collection of essays. Although nominally a work of literary and cultural criticism, the volume provides those interested in emotion in any discipline with a fresh exploration of the intersection of culture, emotions, and technology. . . . A deeply humane, gracefully written work of keen intelligence, this book is a critical resource for those interested in understanding emotions as represented in literature and as lived in daily life and in investigating what emotions reveal about human nature. Essential.” -- R. R. Cornelius * Choice *“The recent surge in interest in emotions from every imaginable discipline is richly explored in Kathleen Woodward’s lively new book, Statistical Panic.” -- Maura Spiegel * American Literature *“Woodward herself writes clearly in an almost ‘good-neighborly’ mode, and one can easily enough imagine talking with her over the backyard fence about life's difficulties. . . . The virtue of the book is clear: sociologists do not ‘own’ the ills of contemporary life in advanced societies, and when an English professor examines the same phenomena as do social scientists, but without the hindrances of methodological apparatus, genuinely useful notions become apparent that seldom make themselves known in conventional sociological research reports.” * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Thinking Feeling, Feeling Thinking 1 Part One: Cultural Politics, Communities of Feeling 29 1. Containing Anger, Advocating Anger: Freud and Feminism 35 2. Against Wisdom: Anger and Aging 58 3. Racial Shame, Mass-Mediated Shame, Mutual Shame 79 4. Liberal Compassion, Compassionate Conservatism 109 Part Two: Structures of Feeling, "New" Feelings 135 5. Sympathy for Nonhuman Cyborgs 139 6. Bureaucratic Rage 165 7. Statistical Panic 195 Coda: Inexhaustible Grief 219 Notes 235 Bibliography 275 Index 297

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Book SynopsisA field-defining collection that consolidates thinking and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies.Trade Review“The Affect Theory Reader is . . . a very valuable resource: it presents essaysin conversation in such a way as to provoke further discussion, to hone various definitions and approaches to affect. Gregg and Seigworth frame the conversations in such a way as to draw out the differences between approaches, and their substantial introduction serves as an apt survey of current work. . . . Gregg and Seigworth have assembled an impressive collection of essays and, in their introduction, certainly recognize the limits and scope of such a project. The work is impressive and will certainly catalyze further development in affect theory across disciplines.” - Russ Leo, Reviews in Cultural Theory“As the first definitive collection of essays on affect studies, The Affect Theory Reader demonstrates how the affective turn in academia has been, and continues to be felt, throughout a variety of disciplines.” - Marcie Bianco, Elevate Difference“While a reader of the book might be left less rather than more sure of what precisely constitutes ‘affect theory’, or even affect itself, s/he is nevertheless very likely to be moved by the range of both thought and affective styles that make up the volume and constitute what the editors call in the introduction, an ‘inventory of shimmers’ (p11). This incitement to ‘more than discourse’,the capacity ‘to touch, to move, to mobilise readers’ (p24) is exactly what one would hope for from a reader of affect theory, and is what the contributions that make up this collection indeed achieve.” - Michael Goddard, New Formations“The Affect Theory Reader is unique. It gathers interesting and provocative articles on affect by well-known theorists and suggestively brings to expression the productive divergence between different philosophical and psychological positions on the subject.”—Erin Manning, author of Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty“Written by some of the most interesting and important thinkers in the field, the essays in this superb collection prove how any serious consideration of culture and politics needs to involve serious attention to affect. The Affect Theory Reader covers remarkable ground: from the ontology of ‘future threat’ in Bush’s preemptive politics to the management of workplace affects in the information economy; from the biology of human mimicry to attachments to promises of the ‘good life’ that often cruelly wear out economically precarious subjects. Thoughtfully curated and genuinely interdisciplinary, with contributors from fields ranging from media studies to geography, Melissa Gregg’s and Gregory J. Seigworth’s reader will be indispensable to anyone working in or adjacent to affect theory.”—Sianne Ngai, author of Ugly Feelings“The Affect Theory Reader is . . . a very valuable resource: it presents essays in conversation in such a way as to provoke further discussion, to hone various definitions and approaches to affect. Gregg and Seigworth frame the conversations in such a way as to draw out the differences between approaches, and their substantial introduction serves as an apt survey of current work. . . . Gregg and Seigworth have assembled an impressive collection of essays and, in their introduction, certainly recognize the limits and scope of such a project. The work is impressive and will certainly catalyze further development in affect theory across disciplines.” -- Russ Leo * Reviews in Cultural Theory *“As the first definitive collection of essays on affect studies, The Affect Theory Reader demonstrates how the affective turn in academia has been, and continues to be felt, throughout a variety of disciplines.” -- Marcie Bianco * Elevate Difference *“While a reader of the book might be left less rather than more sure of what precisely constitutes ‘affect theory’, or even affect itself, s/he is nevertheless very likely to be moved by the range of both thought and affective styles that make up the volume and constitute what the editors call in the introduction, an ‘inventory of shimmers’ (p11). This incitement to ‘more than discourse’, the capacity ‘to touch, to move, to mobilise readers’ (p24) is exactly what one would hope for from a reader of affect theory, and is what the contributions that make up this collection indeed achieve.” -- Michael Goddard * New Formations *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix An Inventory of Shimmers / Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg 1 One. Impingements 1. Happy Objects / Sara Ahmed 29 2. The Future Birth of the Affective Fact: The Political Ontology of Threat / Brian Massumi 52 3. Writing Shame / Elspeth Probyn 71 Two. Aesthetics and the Everyday 4. Cruel Optimism / Lauren Berlant 93 5. Bitter after Taste: Affect, Food, and Social Aesthetics / Ben Highmore 118 An Ethics of Everyday Infinities and Powers: Fèlix Guattari on Affect and the Refrain/ Lone Bertelsen and Andrew Murphie 138 Three. Incorporeal/Inorganic 7. Modulating the Excess of Affect: Morale in a State of "Total War" / Ben Anderson 161 8. After Affect: Sympathy, Synchrony, and Mimetic Communication / Anna Gibbs 186 9. The Affective Turn: Political Economy, Biomedia, and Bodies / Patricia T. Clough 206 Four. Managing Affects 10. Eff the Ineffable: Affect, Somatic Management, and Mental Health Service Users / Steven D. Brown and Ian Tucker 229 11. On Friday Night Drinks: Workplace Affects in the Age of the Cubicle / Melissa Gregg 250 12. Desiring Recognition, Accumulating Affect / Megan Watkins 269 Five. After Affect 13. Understanding the Material Practices of Glamour / Nigel Thrift 289 14. Affect's Future: Rediscovering the Virtual in the Actual / Lawrence Grossberg (An Interview with Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg) 309 Afterword. Worlding Refrains / Kathleen Stewart 339 References 355 Contributors 381 Index 385

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Book SynopsisEssays written by Antoinette Burton since the mid-1990s trace her thinking about modern British history and engage debates about how to think about British imperialism in light of contemporary events.Trade Review“Antoinette Burton’s body of work is central to the debates over national, imperial, and postcolonial histories. Empire in Question is a most welcome collection of her essays, and required reading for anyone in this field. It contains classics, less well-known pieces, and new work. Characteristically, it is full of questions and challenges, both to herself and to her readers. We see a critical and imaginative historian at work, fully engaged both with the times in which she lives, and the times she evokes for us in the past.”—Catherine Hall, Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London“No one has done more than Antoinette Burton to challenge the autonomies of national history, indeed the very ‘certainty of the nation as an analytical category’ itself. Inspired both by the archive’s possibilities and the promise of feminist and postcolonial critique, she turns the ever-seductive sufficiencies of British history radically inside out. While brilliantly showing how and why the histories of nation and empire have to be written together, Empire in Question also documents the continuing transformations of the discipline of history since the 1980s, speaking eloquently to specialists across many different fields.”—Geoff Eley, author of A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society“The development of the ‘new imperial history’ is considered in this book by a scholar who helped to shape the field. Antoinette Burton has insisted that the vectors of imperial power run in many directions and that race must be incorporated into history writing, and argued that gender and sexuality are critical dimensions of imperial history. This collection of essays includes her groundbreaking critiques of British historiography, as well as essays in which she views topics from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre to nostalgia for colonial India through the lens of theory, and a coda in which she candidly assesses shortcomings in her own thinking.” * Times Higher Education *“Empire in Question demonstrates the vitality of cultural studies in capturing the relational dynamics of gender and race and their entwined framing of the lived spaces of imperial rule.” -- Manu Goswami * Journal of Modern History *“Burton's new book should be read by everyone interested in the history of the British Empire over the last two centuries. Burton has been a leader, as Bayly comments in his afterword, in destabilizing the Whiggish, white man's model of imperial history. Her book importantly challenges the ways in which historians and the publics they influence continue to think about imperialism (both British and American) as well as about globalization, race, gender, and the practice and teaching of history.” -- Patrick Brantlinger * Review 19 * “[A]n important retrospective of new imperial history’s development into a vital approach to British historical studies…. Brought together as it is in this volume, Burton’s work demonstrates the challenges, but more so the vital importance, of continuing to push ourselves and British studies past these historiographical barriers to a fuller view of the multiplicity of peoples and places that shape historical and contemporary global systems.” -- Nicole M. Mares * Journal of World History *“This is history with politics and scholarship bound up together, where anything can become the material of the historian if viewed with a discerning eye, where the present and the past are constantly in dialogue, constantly up for question.” -- Yasmin Khan * History Workshop Journal *“Antoinette Burton’s interrogation of empire has made reading, writing and teaching British imperialism a more stimulating and rewarding enterprise.” -- Gavin Rand * Journal of Victorian Culture Online *“Antoinette Burton’s collection of articles in the book, Empire in Question show her theoretical acumen and serve as theoretical harbinger for future aspiring imperial historians.... This book is a treasure trove of information on imperial history and a necessary text for aspiring imperial historians, graduate students, and for those nostalgic for the Empire. It can only be hoped that such rethinking and researching of this nature would happen in the other areas of history of India as well.” -- Lavanya Vemsani * Itinerario *Table of ContentsForeword / Mrinalini Sinha xi Preface. A Note on the Logic of the Volume xvii Acknowledgments xix Introduction. Imperial Optics: Empire Histories, Interpretive Methods 1 Part I. Home and Away: Mapping Imperial Cultures 1. Rules of Thumb: British History and "Imperial Culture" in Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Britain (1994) 27 2. Who Needs the Nation? Interrogating "British" History (1997) 41 3. Thinking beyond the Boundaries: Empire, Feminism, and the Domains of History (2001) 56 4. Déjà Vu All over Again (2002) 68 5. When Was Britain? Nostalgia for the Nation at the End of the "American Century" (2003) 77 6. Archive Stories: Gender in the Making of Imperial and Colonial Histories (2004) 94 7. Gender, Colonialism, and Feminist Collaboration (2008, with Jean Allman) 106 Part II. Theory into Practice: Doing Critical Imperial History 8. Fearful Bodies into Disciplined Subjects: Pleasure, Romance, and the Family Drama of Colonial Reform in Mary Carpenter's Six Months in India (1995) 123 9. Contesting the Zenana: The Mission to Make "Lady Doctors for India," 1874–75 (1996) 151 10. Recapturing Jane Eyre: Reflections on Historicizing the Colonial Encounter in Victorian Britain (1996) 174 11. From Child Bride to "Hindoo Lady": Rukhmabai and the Debate on Sexual Respectability of Imperial Britain (1998) 184 12. Tongues United: Lord Salisbury's "Black Man" and the Boundaries of Imperial Democracy (2000) 214 13. India Inc.?: Nostalgia, Memory, and the Empire of Things (2001) 241 14. New Narratives of Imperial Politics in the Nineteenth Century (2006) 257 Coda. Empire of/and the World?: The Limits of British Imperialism 15. Getting Outside of the Global: Repositioning British Imperialism in World History 275 Afterword / C. A. Bayly 293 Notes 303 Index 381

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Book SynopsisChallenging the notion that Africas first women novelists were uninterested in postcolonial politics, Susan Z. Andrade shows that in their allegorical fiction, the family stood for the nation.Trade Review“In her discussion of postindependence fiction (which includes texts published in both English and French), Andrade complicates a dominant story that still widely informs understandings of the development of African fiction.” - Heather Hewett, Women’s Review of Books“In The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958–1988, Susan Andrade mounts a strong argument for reading African fiction by women (with honourable mention of male feminist authors) along a matrilineal line A phrase of Christopher Ouma’s – “heirs of a new genealogy” (103) – can be taken to sum up this worthwhile collection’s celebration and critical re-evaluation of the Achebean legacy.” - Annie Gagiano, Journal of Postcolonial Writing“[The Nation Writ Small] is clearly argued and theoretically ambitious, aiming to place feminist literature (by male and female authors) within the conversation about nationalist politics that dominated the field in the years immediately following independence.” - Eleni Coundouriotis, Research in African Literatures“The debates in which The Nation Writ Small aims to intercede, therefore, are both internal to African literary studies and germane to the ways in which the field represents itself to the outside world. It is here at the difficult intersection of internal debates and external perception that The Nation Writ Small will be of interest to scholars of a variety of literatures of the Global South.” - Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East“The Nation Writ Small is a brilliant work, feminist and literary scholarship of the highest order. It is a superb reading of the relationship between gender and nationalism in postcolonial African literature and culture, based on Susan Z. Andrade’s deep knowledge of African texts and cultural politics.”—Simon Gikandi, Princeton University “Susan Z. Andrade brings new levels of nuance and complexity to bear on issues that have preoccupied, if not obsessed, readers of African women writers: Are they feminist? And are they nationalist? Andrade dismantles these questions, studies their component parts, and reassembles them with finesse and insight.”—Christopher L. Miller, author of The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade“[The Nation Writ Small] is clearly argued and theoretically ambitious, aiming to place feminist literature (by male and female authors) within the conversation about nationalist politics that dominated the field in the years immediately following independence.” -- Eleni Coundouriotis * Research in African Literatures *“In The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958–1988, Susan Andrade mounts a strong argument for reading African fiction by women (with honourable mention of male feminist authors) along a matrilineal line A phrase of Christopher Ouma’s – “heirs of a new genealogy” (103) – can be taken to sum up this worthwhile collection’s celebration and critical re-evaluation of the Achebean legacy.” -- Annie Gagiano * Journal of Postcolonial Writing *“In her discussion of postindependence fiction (which includes texts published in both English and French), Andrade complicates a dominant story that still widely informs understandings of the development of African fiction.” -- Heather Hewett, * Women's Review of Books *"The Nation Writ Small illustrates the enriched forms of literary scholarship that can emerge when we read simultaneously for form and theme while continuously verifying these analytical objects against the historiography of the respective literary tradition." -- Monica Popescu * Novel *"The Nation Writ Small is retrospective feminist literary historiography at its best, and certainly at its most elegant.... Andrade is a must-have for any library with holdings in Africana and comparative literature, and should be essential reading for anybody studying and teaching African literatures. But before this sounds like yet another literary chore: The Nation Writ Small simply makes for great reading." -- Christine Matzke * Postcolonial Text *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. The Joys of Daughterhood: Achebe, Nwapa, Emecheta 44 2. The Loved and the Left: Sembne, Bâ, Sow Fall 71 3. Bildung in Formation and Deformation: Dangarembga and Farah 114 4. Bildung at Its Boundaries: Djebar, Two Ways 165 Conclusion 202 Selected Chronology of African Novels 209 Notes 213 References 239 Index 253

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Book SynopsisA comparative feminist work that starts with a substantial historical account of the different ways that freedom, race and gender were intertwined in Jamaica and Haiti after the end of slavery. It examines the contemporary gendered spaces of citizenship, travel, and popular culture across the Caribbean.Trade Review"Citizenship from Below is an important contribution to debates about the complexities of citizenship, particularly in post-slavery, postcolonial societies. Mimi Sheller traces the relations between constructions of gender and sexuality, transnational and diasporic imaginaries, and the various incarnations of Caribbean societies, from the colonial to the postcolonial and nationalist. She expands our notion of citizenship by showing how it is constructed by the state over time amid changing circumstances, and by alternative politics and modes of belonging that emerge from 'below.'"—Deborah A. Thomas, author of Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica"This is a stimulating, thought-provoking book of lasting significance to scholarship on the Caribbean, citizenship, sexuality, and embodiment. The way that Mimi Sheller puts the literatures on embodiment and citizenship into dialogue is impressive and important. After reading her analysis of these two bodies of scholarship, I will never again be able to think about one without considering the other. Citizenship from Below is a very distinguished book, one which will be widely read and discussed."—Diana Paton, co-editor of Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing“Citizenship from Below is a sophisticated, challenging, and ambitious book…. Sheller’s book is a masterful demonstration of the multidirectional, complicated, and ongoing process by which citizenship is constructed, appropriated, defined, and inhabited.… This book will be important and illuminating reading for historians of the Caribbean, of sex and gender, of citizenship, broadly conceived. It is indispensible reading for scholars interested in the fraught process of citizenship after slave emancipation, in particular.” -- Naomi J. Andrews * Itinerario *“Sheller joins this conversation on sexuality and social justice, with Citizenship from Below, which will be a useful tool in such dialogues—as well as in the hands of those ‘from below.’” -- A. Lynn Bolles * Women's Review of Books *“[A] grounded, yet expansive contribution to the study of sexuality, citizenship and post-slavery societies.” -- Kate Houlden * Anthurium *"[A]n extremely forceful and timely argument. . . . For Sheller, the exercise of sexual agency, while it may not necessarily transform the institutions through which inequalities have historically been structured, 'may enable some forms of maneuver, negotiation, and exchange' (p. 260). It is by training this lens on nineteenth-century Jamaica and Haiti that Sheller most profoundly complexifies traditional political histories of slavery, freedom, and citizenship. I believe this theoretical reframing is the most critical contribution of Citizenship from Below." -- Deborah A. Thomas * New West Indian Guide * "A ground-breaking interdisciplinary achievement and contribution to the theory of freedom." -- Aija Lulle * Anthropological Notebooks *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. History from the Bottom(s) Up 19 2. Quasheba, Mother, Queen 48 3. Her Majesty's Sable Subjects 89 4. Lost Glimpses of 1865 114 5. Sword-Bearing Citizens 142 6. "You Signed My Name But Not My Feet" 166 7. Arboreal Landscapes of Power and Resistance 187 8. Returning the Tourist Gaze 210 9. Erotic Agency and a Queer Caribbean Freedom 239 Notes 281 Works Cited 305 Index 339

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