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Book SynopsisArgues that science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist critique must inform one anotherTrade Review“The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader succeeds in mapping a new field of inquiry for those of us working in science and technology studies. This brilliant collection of essays successfully bridges postcolonialist and feminist approaches to science and technology studies and provides the foundation for essential transformations of curriculum and research in this area. The essays provoke examination of how different knowledge systems function, and they call into question who benefits and is disadvantaged by those systems. For those committed to the tenet that just societies require just practices of science, this collection is indispensable. No science and technology studies curriculum is complete without it.”—Nancy Tuana, Dupont/Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University“This magisterial, compelling, and important collection pushes the boundaries of postcolonial studies in urgent ways. It charts the richness and depth of knowledge systems across the non-Western world, delineating their differences from, contributions to, and marginalization by what is thought of as Western science. This book makes it impossible to ignore the interconnections between long histories of imperialism, the dynamics of the Cold War, and the asymmetries of globalization, or to isolate science from social relations. It also maps the ground on which we can imagine a different future.”—Ania Loomba, co-editor of South Asian Feminisms“The anthology lives up to its aspirations of providing an accessible compass to issues and questions that have been approached with a ‘‘postcolonial sensibility’’... By highlighting cross-connections between contributions of different sections, Harding succeeds in bringing the texts of diverse disciplinary backgrounds into conversation with each other and thus underscores the postcolonialist need for a trans-disciplinary cooperation.” -- Anna Mohr * Science and Education *“…Harding has succeeded in representing great geographical variety and historical depth, making her compilation an important reference book in the field of STS.” -- Harry Yi-Jui Wu * East Asian Science, Technology and Society *“The book will serve admirably in classes for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in which the history and future of global science and technology policy are discussed.” -- William Kelleher Story * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Beyond Postcolonial Theory: Two Undertheorized Perspectives on Science and Technology 1 I. Counterhistories 33 1. Discovering the Oriental West / John M. Hobson 39 2. Long-Distance Corporations, Big Sciences, and the Geography of Knowledge / Steven J. Harris 61 3. Heroic Narratives of Quest and Discovery / Mary Terrall 84 4. Maria Sibylla Merian: A Woman of Art and Science / Ella Reitsma 103 5. Prospecting for Drugs: European Naturalists in the West Indies / Londa Schiebinger 110 6. Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanical Gardens / Lucille H. Brockway 127 7. Out of Africa: Colonial Rice History in the Black Atlantic / Judith Carney 140 II. Other Cultures' Sciences 151 8. Navigation in the Western Carolines: A Traditional Science / Ward H. Goodenough 159 9. Science for the West, Myth for the Rest? / Colin Scott 175 10. Ecolinguistics, Linguistic Diversity, Ecological Diversity / Peter Mühlhäusler 198 11. Gender and Indigenous Knowledge / Helen Appleton, Maria E. Fernandez, Catherine L. M. Hill, and Consuelo Quiroz 211 12. Whose Knowledge, Whose Genes, Whose Rights? / Stephen B. Brush 225 13. The Role of the Global Network of Indigenous Knowledge Resource Centers in the Conservation of Cultural and Biological Diversity / D. Michael Warren 247 III. Residues and Reinventions 14. Development and the Anthropology of Modernity / Arturo Escobar 269 15. Tradition and Gender in Modernization Theory / Catherine V. Scott 290 16. Security and Survival: Why Do Poor People Have Many Children? / Betsy Hartmann 310 17. Call for a New Approach / Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment 318 18. The Human Genome Diversity Project: What Went Wrong? / Jenny Reardon 321 19. Bioprospecting's Representational Dilemma / Cori Hayden 343 IV. Moving Forward: Possible Pathways 365 20. Islamic Science: The Contemporary Debate / Ziauddin Sardar 383 21. Mining Civilizational Knowledge / Susantha Goonatilake 380 22. Toward the Integration of Knowledge Systems: Challenges to Thought and Practice / Catherine A. Odora Hoppers 388 23. Human Well-Being and Federal Science: What's the Connection? / Daniel Sarewitz 403 24. Science in a Era of Globalization: Alternative Pathways / David J. Hess 419 25. Civic Science for Sustainability: Reframing the Role of Experts, Policymakers, and Citizens in Environmental Governance / Karen Bäckstrand 439 Copyright Acknowledgments 459 Index 463

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Book SynopsisAn anthology of writing by Jacqueline Rose, a singular, provocative critic renowned for her commitment to psychoanalytic theory as a uniquely productive way of analyzing literature, culture, politics, and society.Trade Review“Jacqueline Rose is one of our most trenchant, politically engaged intellectuals. It will be important for a wide range of readers to have this collection of her essays, along with the introduction—which will help readers unfamiliar with the full range of her work—and the splendid interview that concludes the volume.”—Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, University of California, Berkeley“Jacqueline Rose, friend and ally, achieves what many of us attempt: to preserve the delicacy of a training in literary reading in the tough realities of the political. She made psychoanalysis possible for a whole generation. This book gives a sense of the range: analysis, text, war—from South Africa to Palestine.”—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor, Columbia University“Google's motto is ‘Don't Be Evil,’ but is there something near to evil in writing itself? So suggests a superb essay here, ‘The Body of Evil,’ which brings together Hannah Arendt, JM Coetzee, and the aftermath of 9/11. ‘People using the term “evil” all sound the same,’ comments Rose, in a piece that shows off her discursively probing style to best effect... The rest of the collection sees a psychoanalytic reading of Peter Pan, an intriguing defence of Sylvia Plath's notorious poem ‘Daddy,’ and interesting interventions on Eliot-on-Hamlet, Virginia Woolf, Freud, Melanie Klein, and Israel-Palestine (with Amos Oz a key reference). The editors do a fine job of introducing the work.” -- Steven Poole * The Guardian *“Rose brings courage, insight and compassion to every topic in this book, and gives the readers a taste of her uniquely feminine way of looking at the world: at injustice, identity, nationality, language, literature, and more through a psychoanalytic lens. A writer, literary critic, lecturer, and teacher, Rose’s oeuvre is impressively diverse.” -- Michal Adiv-Ginach * American Journal of Psychoanalysis *“The Jacqueline Rose Reader offers an insightful and informative overview of the output (so far) of a provocative and influential writer. It will be an important resource for teachers and students of psychoanalytic theory, of literary studies, and of cultural studies, and, hopefully, will introduce new readers to Rose’s wide-ranging and valuable work.” -- Hannah Priest * Feminism and Psychology *Table of ContentsReading Jacqueline Rose: An Introduction / Ben Naparstek and Justin Clemens 1 Part I. Analysis Introduction to Part I 27 1. Femininity and Its Discontents 31 2. Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the école freudienne 48 3. Negativity in the Work of Melanie Kline 61 4. Mass Psychology 86 Part II. Nation Introduction to Part II 117 5. States of Fantasy 123 6. Just, Lasting, Comprehensive 138 7. Apathy and Accountability: The Challenge of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the Intellectual in the Modern World 156 8. The Body of Evil: Arendt, Coetzee, and 9/11 170 9. "Imponderables in Thin Air": Zionism as Psychoanalysis (Critique) 188 Part III. Representations Introduction to Part III 215 10. Sexuality in the Field of Vision 221 11. Hamlet: The "Mona Lisa" of Literature 228 12. Virginia Woolf and the Death of Modernism 242 13. "Daddy" 257 14. Peter Pan and Freud: Who Is Talking and to Whom? 274 15. Excerpts from Albertine: A Novel 300 Part IV. Interventions Introduction to Part IV 315 16. "Infinite Justice" 319 17. We Are All Afraid, But of What, Exactly? 320 18. Why Zionism Today Is the Real Enemy of the Jews 322 19. Reflections on Israel's 2008 Incursion into Gaza 326 20. Why Howard Jacobson Is Wrong 328 21. Holocaust Premises: Political Implications of the Traumatic Frame 332 22. A Conversation with Jacqueline Rose 341 Notes 361 Jacqueline Rose: A Select Bibliography, 1974–2010 413 Index 419

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Book SynopsisIn this feminist cultural study of reenactments, Katie King traces the development of a new kind of transmedia storytelling during the 1990s, as a response to the increasing difficulty of reaching large audiences at a time where entertainment media and knowledge production were both being restructured.Trade Review“King... here offers a challenging, meandering take on feminist transdisciplinary posthumanities through the lens of networked reenactment--what one could think of as transmedia storytelling, experiments in communication, and/or epistemological melodramas.... Recommended.” - S.E. Vie, CHOICE Magazine“Theoretically rigorous, these books are also highly pragmatic in recommending activism for social justice…. King bases her argument on factually dense case studies organized in loose chronological order… [T]he organization works well to support historical analysis of a specific period… it is rewarding because her analysis is so trenchant.” - Carol Colatrella, Postmodern Culture“In this lively, thoughtful, and provocative book, Katie King traces the multiple layers and complex intertwined ‘communities of practice’ that assemble around such diverse discursive sites as television programs, academic classes and conferences, museum exhibitions, and other public spectacles. Networked Reenactments leaves the reader with a heightened sense of the possibilities, as well as the limits and dangers, of contemporary knowledge production, of the ways that we collectively make meanings and understand the heritage of the past in the present.”—Steven Shaviro, author of Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society“King... here offers a challenging, meandering take on feminist transdisciplinary posthumanities through the lens of networked reenactment--what one could think of as transmedia storytelling, experiments in communication, and/or epistemological melodramas.... Recommended.” -- S.E. Vie * Choice *“It is often the case that I read a book that inspires me to rethink a particular phenomenon. However, it is rare that a book challenges me to think differently about what it means to think. Katie King's Networked Reenactments accomplishes both things. It is, in significant ways, a very tough act to follow.” -- Joy V. Fuqua * Women's Studies Quarterly *“Theoretically rigorous, these books are also highly pragmatic in recommending activism for social justice…. King bases her argument on factually dense case studies organized in loose chronological order… [T]he organization works well to support historical analysis of a specific period… it is rewarding because her analysis is so trenchant.” -- Carol Colatrella * Postmodern Culture *“A well-researched and convincing series of arguments reminding us that our own esoteric expertise can connect us to many conversations that help us remain relevant in the creation and dissemination of knowledges.” -- Jeanne L. Gillespie * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsForeword / Donna Haraway ix Preface. What Are Reenactments in This Book? xv Acknowledgments xix Introduction. A Thick Description amid Authorships, Audiences, and Agencies in the Nineties 1 1. Nationalities, Sexualities, and Global TV: Highlander, Xena, and Meanings of European Union 21 2. Science in American Life: Among the Culture Warriors 59 3. TV and the Web Come Together 129 4. Scholars and Intellectual Entrepreneurs 203 Conclusion. Toward a Feminist Transdisciplinary Posthumanities 273 Notes 301 Bibliography 335 Index 351

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Book SynopsisThrough close readings of Barthes, Derrida, Sedgwick, and Spivak, Jane Gallop connects the theoretical death of the author to the writers literal death, as well as other authorial deaths, such as obsolescence.Trade Review“. . . Gallop has provided us with a profound look at what it means to read and write in the face of human mortality. Highly recommended for students of literature and literary theory.” - Emily Manuel, Global Comment“Jane Gallop is no doubt one of the best readers of her generation, but with The Deaths of the Author she proves that her writing is unprecedented: sharp, brisk, with a great sense of rhythm, utterly sophisticated and yet perfectly clear, from the very first till the very last sentence.” - Jan Baeten, Leonardo“Jane Gallop revitalises debates on the ‘death of the author’ theory by examining the effect the theory has on the author of a landmark work. She uses readings of influential literary theorists Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak to connect an author’s theoretical, literal and metaphoric deaths to discuss the idea.” - Times Higher Education“Gallop meticulously yet gracefully analyzes the complicated relationship between a devoted reader and the author that inspires them. . . . Gallop’s impressive close reading breathes new life into these dead authors and fittingly pays tribute to the man who killed the author and liberated the reader by practicing what he preached at a level of insight and clarity on par with Barthes himself.” - Chase Dimock, Lambda Literary Review“Gallop’s close readings in and around queer lives, the “fragments” that the “dead-but-still-going” author leaves behind, elegantly invite us into the traces, ghostings and shadows that viscerally render the imbrication between the theoretical and the personal — a dynamic often disregarded in many academic circles. By writing Barthes (then Derrida, then Sedgwick, then Owens, then Lynch, and then Spivak), [she] breathes life into the future-perfect corpses that are never really dead as such in the first place.The Deaths of the Author conjures a corps de ballet in which Gallop cinematically choreographs shadows and bodies so that in their performance they commingle. I am thankful for the invitation to dance.” - David A. Gerstner, Reviews in Cultural Theory“Always lively and lucid, Jane Gallop has produced another remarkable book. Taken literally, the familiar notion of ‘the death of the author’ acquires a wholly different resonance in these essays on major contemporary theorists, who reflect on the temporality of writing and the effects of deaths of authors.”—Jonathan Culler, Cornell University“Jane Gallop is one of the small handful of critics who are keeping close reading alive. With this volume, she illuminates the stakes in paying such careful and loving attention to the words by which writers are turned, and turn themselves, into authors: stakes made visible on the relational field joining reader and author in an intimate bond that’s desirous, companionate, aggressive, indecent, sustaining, disturbing, unstable, and, when elaborated by a critic and thinker as gifted and incisive as Jane Gallop, also endlessly productive.”—Lee Edelman, author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive“Gallop has provided us with a profound look at what it means to read and write in the face of human mortality. Highly recommended for students of literature and literary theory.” -- Emily Manuel * Global Comment *“Gallop meticulously yet gracefully analyzes the complicated relationship between a devoted reader and the author that inspires them. . . . Gallop’s impressive close reading breathes new life into these dead authors and fittingly pays tribute to the man who killed the author and liberated the reader by practicing what he preached at a level of insight and clarity on par with Barthes himself.” -- Chase Dimock * Lambda Literary Review *“Gallop’s close readings in and around queer lives, the 'fragments' that the 'dead-but-still-going' author leaves behind, elegantly invite us into the traces, ghostings and shadows that viscerally render the imbrication between the theoretical and the personal — a dynamic often disregarded in many academic circles. By writing Barthes (then Derrida, then Sedgwick, then Owens, then Lynch, and then Spivak), [she] breathes life into the future-perfect corpses that are never really dead as such in the first place. The Deaths of the Author conjures a corps de ballet in which Gallop cinematically choreographs shadows and bodies so that in their performance they commingle. I am thankful for the invitation to dance.” -- David A. Gerstner * Reviews in Cultural Theory *“Jane Gallop is no doubt one of the best readers of her generation, but with The Deaths of the Author she proves that her writing is unprecedented: sharp, brisk, with a great sense of rhythm, utterly sophisticated and yet perfectly clear, from the very first till the very last sentence.” -- Jan Baeten * Leonardo Reviews *“Jane Gallop revitalises debates on the ‘death of the author’ theory by examining the effect the theory has on the author of a landmark work. She uses readings of influential literary theorists Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak to connect an author’s theoretical, literal and metaphoric deaths to discuss the idea.” * Times Higher Education *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. The Friendly Return of the Author 27 1. The Author Is Dead but I Desire the Author 29 2. The Ethics of Indecency 55 Part II. If I Were a Writer and Dead 85 3. The Queer Temporality of Writing 87 4. The Persistent and Vanishing Present 115 Notes 145 Works Cited 163 Index 167

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Book SynopsisIn this feminist cultural study of reenactments, Katie King traces the development of a new kind of transmedia storytelling during the 1990s, as a response to the increasing difficulty of reaching large audiences at a time where entertainment media and knowledge production were both being restructured.Trade Review“King... here offers a challenging, meandering take on feminist transdisciplinary posthumanities through the lens of networked reenactment--what one could think of as transmedia storytelling, experiments in communication, and/or epistemological melodramas.... Recommended.” - S.E. Vie, CHOICE Magazine“Theoretically rigorous, these books are also highly pragmatic in recommending activism for social justice…. King bases her argument on factually dense case studies organized in loose chronological order… [T]he organization works well to support historical analysis of a specific period… it is rewarding because her analysis is so trenchant.” - Carol Colatrella, Postmodern Culture“In this lively, thoughtful, and provocative book, Katie King traces the multiple layers and complex intertwined ‘communities of practice’ that assemble around such diverse discursive sites as television programs, academic classes and conferences, museum exhibitions, and other public spectacles. Networked Reenactments leaves the reader with a heightened sense of the possibilities, as well as the limits and dangers, of contemporary knowledge production, of the ways that we collectively make meanings and understand the heritage of the past in the present.”—Steven Shaviro, author of Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society“King... here offers a challenging, meandering take on feminist transdisciplinary posthumanities through the lens of networked reenactment--what one could think of as transmedia storytelling, experiments in communication, and/or epistemological melodramas.... Recommended.” -- S.E. Vie * Choice *“It is often the case that I read a book that inspires me to rethink a particular phenomenon. However, it is rare that a book challenges me to think differently about what it means to think. Katie King's Networked Reenactments accomplishes both things. It is, in significant ways, a very tough act to follow.” -- Joy V. Fuqua * Women's Studies Quarterly *“Theoretically rigorous, these books are also highly pragmatic in recommending activism for social justice…. King bases her argument on factually dense case studies organized in loose chronological order… [T]he organization works well to support historical analysis of a specific period… it is rewarding because her analysis is so trenchant.” -- Carol Colatrella * Postmodern Culture *“A well-researched and convincing series of arguments reminding us that our own esoteric expertise can connect us to many conversations that help us remain relevant in the creation and dissemination of knowledges.” -- Jeanne L. Gillespie * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsForeword / Donna Haraway ix Preface. What Are Reenactments in This Book? xv Acknowledgments xix Introduction. A Thick Description amid Authorships, Audiences, and Agencies in the Nineties 1 1. Nationalities, Sexualities, and Global TV: Highlander, Xena, and Meanings of European Union 21 2. Science in American Life: Among the Culture Warriors 59 3. TV and the Web Come Together 129 4. Scholars and Intellectual Entrepreneurs 203 Conclusion. Toward a Feminist Transdisciplinary Posthumanities 273 Notes 301 Bibliography 335 Index 351

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Book SynopsisJoan Wallach Scott, a historian who helped to shape the fields of gender and womens history, argues for the usefulness of psychoanalytic concepts, particularly fantasy, for feminist historical analysis.Trade Review“This is a provocative volume and will be of particular interest to those seeking a bridge between sociology’s measurable quantities and psychology’s emphasis on the unknowable. With connections to an array of disciplines including history, women’s studies, literary theory, and psychology, it holds promise for broad reach across the academy.” - On Campus with Women“The Fantasy of Feminist History remains a fascinating and timely engagement with important questions concerning the rhetoric and ideology of historical representation, and it will undoubtedly have broad appeal for scholars working in and across a range of disciplines and fields of study, including history, gender studies, critical theory, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, and postcolonialism. Scott is particularly adept at rendering complex theoretical concepts in eminently clear, readable terms, as well as at providing concise genealogies of the institutional, intellectual, and social contexts in which those concepts were initially developed and have been put to use subsequently.” - Theo Finigan, Reviews in Cultural Theory“Against Scott’s formulation, historians may continue to assert that there is little empirical foundation for psychoanalytic concepts of fantasy, although it is difficult to argue that the histories she discusses are not informed by emotional investments that cannot be explained ideologically or empirically. The epilogue, which reminds us that archives are a repository of passion as well as information, should give all historians a reason to examine the scenes into which they may have written themselves.” - Carolyn J. Dean, Journal of Modern History“The Fantasy of Feminist History is Joan Wallach Scott’s most important intervention in the field of gender history since her classic article of 1986. In her usual lucid prose, she invites us to rethink gender analysis in psychoanalytic terms and thus enrich our analytic vocabulary for understanding human existence. Her critiques of sexual difference and cultural construction dramatically change our notions of gender norms. Her elucidation of fantasy as a historical category of analysis is also groundbreaking. This book is a must-read for all historians and gender scholars.”—Mary Louise Roberts, author of Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siècle France“Joan Wallach Scott is not merely a historian of gender. Gender also proves a useful tool in her history of our present. To preserve its ‘critical edge,’ she summons psychoanalysis, convincingly arguing that gender studies need not be limited to cold reason. From paradox to dilemma, indeed, there is madness in Scott’s method, and it is exhilarating.”—Éric Fassin, École Normale Supérieure“This elegant collection of Joan Wallach Scott’s recent essays on feminist history and critique is her best book yet. Relentlessly pedagogical, bracingly reflexive, and breathtakingly creative, each essay makes good on the book’s premise that ‘psychoanalysis animates the concept of gender for historians.’ The introduction—a perspicacious narrative of feminist theory’s complex relationship with sexual difference and psychoanalysis—is worth its weight in gold, and the five essays that follow, on topics ranging from secularism to seduction theory, are polished gems of historical-theoretical inquiry. Together they reinvigorate feminist theory with brilliant new ideas, juxtapositions, and engagements.”—Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley“The Fantasy of Feminist History remains a fascinating and timely engagement with important questions concerning the rhetoric and ideology of historical representation, and it will undoubtedly have broad appeal for scholars working in and across a range of disciplines and fields of study, including history, gender studies, critical theory, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, and postcolonialism. Scott is particularly adept at rendering complex theoretical concepts in eminently clear, readable terms, as well as at providing concise genealogies of the institutional, intellectual, and social contexts in which those concepts were initially developed and have been put to use subsequently.” -- Theo Finigan * Reviews in Cultural Theory *“This is a provocative volume and will be of particular interest to those seeking a bridge between sociology’s measurable quantities and psychology’s emphasis on the unknowable. With connections to an array of disciplines including history, women’s studies, literary theory, and psychology, it holds promise for broad reach across the academy.” * On Campus with Women *“Against Scott’s formulation, historians may continue to assert that there is little empirical foundation for psychoanalytic concepts of fantasy, although it is difficult to argue that the histories she discusses are not informed by emotional investments that cannot be explained ideologically or empirically. The epilogue, which reminds us that archives are a repository of passion as well as information, should give all historians a reason to examine the scenes into which they may have written themselves.” -- Carolyn J. Dean * Journal of Modern History *“Scott’s undertaking should be commended for its daring attempt to tease out new ways of analysing historical material.” -- Michael Kuur Sørensen * European Review of History *"The importance of Scott's book lies in its refusal of a damaging spatial binary of surface and depth. Surface readers accuse ‘depth’ readers of not being aware of their own fantasies as readers, in turn, they are agnostic about knowing such entanglements in their surface readings. It is precisely the entanglements of the reader and text and the fantasies of historical knowledge that Scott engages. Her critical reading practice insists not only on close reading of the text, but also close reading of the reader herself.” -- Kathleen Biddick * Journal of Social History *“The impressive yield of this anthology is that it deals with supposedly familiar subjects but still succeeds in opening up a new discussion. . . . Scott delivers interesting discussions over many theoretical concepts, and her diagnosis, with the help of psychoanalysis, of the discipline’s shortcomings is striking.” -- Angelika Epple * History and Theory *“I choose to conclude by mentioning one aspect that I consider of special relevance: the critique of the fantasy of continuity in historical constructions. This critique concerns not only the temporal categories of history and its periodisation, but is tightly linked with the critique of essentialism. This is why I consider it foundational for any innovative historical practice, including the multifarious forms of feminist history." -- Luisa Passerini * Gender & History *“The Fantasy of Feminist History deal with one of the oldest and most difficult problems faced by feminist historians across the generations: how is it possible to account for emotions, passions, feelings, desires and fantasies while doing historical research? It is easy to predict that the arguments – and the book – will play a central role in theoretical and methodological debates among scholars working on gender issues in years to come.” -- Paola Di Cori * European Journal of Women's Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vi Introduction. "Flyers into the Unknown": Gender, History, Psychoanalysis 1 1. Feminism's History 23 2. Fantasy Echo: History and the Construction of Identity 45 3. Feminist Reverberations 68 4. Sexularism: On Secularism and Gender Equality 91 5. French Seduction Theory 117 Epilogue. A Feminist Theory Archive 141 Notes 149 Bibliography 169 Index 181

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Book SynopsisExamining debates in interdisciplinary identity studies, this title studies debates in Women's Studies, American Studies, Queer Theory and Whiteness studies, especially at points when the key terms changed, as happened when Women's Studies was superseded by Gender Studies.Trade Review“This book is as incisive in its articulation of the stakes involved in post–Civil Rights academic field formations as it is responsive to the affective investments shaping specific fields' modes of self-governance and self-reinvention. What do we want from identity knowledges—and what do they offer us? In the incongruent spaces opened up by these questions, and against the nonsynchronized discourses marked by political obligations, institutional structures, and methodological ambitions, Robyn Wiegman narrates what she calls object lessons with inimitable intensity, agility, and imagination. If visionary thinking about identity studies is an art, she has given us a brilliant master-class performance.”—Rey Chow, author of Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture“This brilliant, commodious book gives us a name for that fast-moving conceptual traffic arrayed across the academic galaxy from the 1970s to the present; as a strategy for naming, Object Lessons brings about ‘identity knowledges’ as a rethought object of desire and destination, its political commitments pursued to the bone, in the immediacy of its institutional arrangements. The reader will not want to miss Robyn Wiegman in this quite stunning and masterful outcome.”—Hortense Spillers“This is a contentious book, but without contention, knowledges become rigid and fortified. Robyn Wiegman induces us to think more carefully about the ways in which politically committed knowledges make themselves as they make knowledge of their objects of investigation.”—Elizabeth Grosz, author of Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art“The lesson that emerges from [Wiegman’s] argument resounds forcefully throughout Object Lessons as a whole. It teaches that whether in creating fields of scholarly practice or in the theorization of objects of knowledge, the institutional formation of identity knowledges is inescapably attached to what these knowledges critique and thereby attempt to leave behind. Identity knowledges, in other words, appear in Object Lessons as moored to and made in the very gestures of disavowal,” -- Nick Mitchell * Signs *“Object Lessons by Robyn Wiegman is a profoundly pedagogic book. By which I mean: it is a book that teaches us how we are taught. . . . The book prompted me to reflect on my own relation to Women’s Studies even if I did not always recognise the version of Women’s Studies being presented (and we do not need to recognise each other’s versions to know they bear some relation).” -- Sara Ahmed * Feminist Theory *“[Wiegman’s] book left me reeling in the best possible way, precisely because it focuses in on the affective life of our critical impulses. Wiegman peels back the veneer on our investments in a variety of politics — feminist, anti-racist, imperialist, queer— leaving us to confront why we show up to struggle with our work. This book gave me the gift of recognizing conflict and incommensurability as powerful sites from which to continue to passionately invest in politics.” -- Naomi Greyser * Feminist Studies *“Object Lessons is an excellent contribution to the field of critical scholarship... Recommended for scholars and graduate students working in the areas of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, particularly, as well as other identity-based disciplines. Wiegman is a brilliant thinker and her text provides a site for considering the stakes of the projects with which we’re engaged and how the “stakes” are defined in the first place.While Wiegman offers no easy answers, for scholars who have ever asked questions of themselves, like: “Does my work do anything?” and “Does this work really matter?” what Wiegman does offer is a thoughtful meditation on the narratives that work to sustain the aspirational hopes of disciplines emerging out of left critique; specifically, the hope that critical practices will deliver the futures of which we dream.” -- Elizabeth Groeneveld * Reviews in Cultural Theory *“In addition to engaging identity studies’ practitioners, Object Lessons effectively addresses students being disciplined in interdisciplines and schooled in the tradition of oppositional positions: all those, in other words, for whom the limits, possibilities, and pleasures of academic labor are inextricably bound to the questions of the legibility and precarity of their institutional homes.” -- Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan * Women & Performance *“In Object Lessons, Robyn Wiegman considers how the political imaginary of the feminist alternative functions. She explores our attachments to feminism’s objects, quite brilliantly showing how we – as feminists – invest in theory and critique’s ability to transform the world. I am not entirely sure how she manages it, but Wiegman combines uncomfortable insights about, for example, our desires for the concept and practice of ‘intersectionality’ to deliver us from the burden of ongoing racism and injustice, with a generosity that invites the reader in and keeps her reading.” -- Clare Hemmings * Feminist Theory *"An extraordinary work of critical theory within academic identity knowledges, and deserves to be numbered among the best works of contemporary feminist and queer theory." -- Jessica Durham * Colloquy *"Masterfully cover[s] a wide range of theoretical material, from the complex intercalation of women’s studies with gender studies, through the fraught relation of queer studies to conceptions of 'normativity' (306), and the equally fractious question of how the discourse ofinternationalization has played out within the 'field imaginary' (14) of American studies. . . . Object Lessons is an important book, shrewd both in its critique and its awareness of the limitations of critique." -- Paul Giles * American Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: How to Read This Book 1 1. Doing Justice with Objects: Or, the "Progress" of Gender 36 2. Telling Time: When Feminism and Queer Theory Diverge 91 3. The Political Conscious: Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity 137 4. Refusing Identification: Americanist Pursuits of Global Noncomplicity 197 5. Critical Kinship: Universal Aspirations and Intersectional Judgments 239 6. The Vertigo of Critique: Rethinking Heteronormativity 301 Bibliography 345 Index 391

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Book SynopsisIn this critique of the fields of feminist theory, queer theory, and critical race theory, Sharon Holland describes how, despite decades of theoretical and political work focused on race, we are continually affected by everyday experiences of racism and attached to old patterns of racist thought.Trade Review“Holland’s book is thorough in its critique of cultural theory on race and the erotic, and it convincingly argues that the erotic has the potential of bringing the ‘private’ life of racism into view.” - Stine H. Bang, Ethnic and Racial Studies"I love this book. I found myself at different turns thrilled, affirmed, unnerved, and shamed by Sharon Patricia Holland's provocations. Tenderly and chillingly, and truly full-frontally, Holland confronts us with what 'everyday racism' looks like in the world—and the academy. Brilliantly, she shows us the ways it has burrowed ever more insistently into the places where it hides: racism lies coiled inside our families and intimate contacts, even among our political allies, living in the places where we take our pleasure. This is seductive and fiercely challenging, groundbreaking work."—Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where "Black" Meets "Queer""Sharon Patricia Holland's brilliant, provocative study challenges cultural theory by galvanizing a bold new conversation about the too-familiar realities of racism as manifest through everyday 'erotic' attachments, capaciously defined. As the book pointedly tracks the personal, bodily, familial, generational, institutional, and symbolic vectors of desire as implicated in racist ways of being, it brings into refocus concerns—such as biology, touch, hate and love speech, blood relations, the forbidden, violence, miscegenation, liberal guilt and blame—that powerfully address the persistent pull of racism's ordinariness in a culture that ostensibly desires to move beyond race. This is next-wave feminism, queer studies, and race theory at their best."—Marlon B. Ross, author of Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era“Holland’s book is thorough in its critique of cultural theory on race and the erotic, and it convincingly argues that the erotic has the potential of bringing the ‘private’ life of racism into view.” -- Stine H. Bang * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“The Erotic Life of Racism is a challenging and necessary text.” -- Carlos Ulises Decena * GLQ *“A much welcome contribution to queer ethnic studies. . . . Holland situates her project squarely at the intersection of critical race theory and queer theory. However, she does not ask the usual question, What can these two bodies of theoretical literature say to each other? Instead, she asks, What purposes are served by the maneuvers that have kept these two fields separate and what can we learn by pushing against that separation? Her answers are surprising and should be part of a conversation remaking both critical race theory and queer theory.” -- Michael Hames-García * Feminist Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: The Last Word on Racism 1 1. Race: There's No Place like "Beyond" 17 2. Desire, or "A Bit of the Other" 41 3. S.H.E.: Reproducing Discretion as the Better Part of (Queer) Valor 65 Conclusion: Racism's Last Word 95 Notes 115 Bibliography 147 Index 161

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Book SynopsisMel Y. Chen draws on studies of sexuality, race, and affect to consider how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, deathly, or otherwise "wrong," animates cultural life in important ways.Trade Review“This work is a bricolage demonstrating the dexterity of cultural studies today in its explorations of the limits of live- liness. Although the work speaks primarily to queer theory and Asian American studies, it will stir anthropologists of multiple subfields.” -- Rheana Salazar Parrenas * American Anthropologist *“To read Mel Chen’s book Animacies is both a challenge and a pleasure … [it] offers critical positions that will be of interest to Asian Americanists.” -- Neel Ahuja * Journal of Asian American Studies *“Chen’s book touches upon many topics in Animacies and provides channels for further investigation and expansion for those who wish to study linguistics, disability studies, race, animal studies, gender, and sexuality studies.” -- Marissa Malady * Feminist Legal Studies *"Animacies provides us with fresh, provocative insights into the queer possibilities of kinship and intimacies with some of the most overlooked forms of material existence. Readers will find much to admire in this book." -- Cynthia Wu * TSQ *" . . . the lucidity of Chen's histories of each of the intersecting fields of study makes these [first] chapters worth reading and teaching. The latter half . . . stands out as innovative work that advances new potentialities for cultural studies sensitive to the multivalent dimensions of relationality." -- Christine Yao * College Literature *“Chen’s prose is animate; it leaps off the page and sparks in the reader both respect in Chen’s outstanding linguistic ability and wonder in the flow of her prose, her mastery of theoretical sources, and the flux of her intense, immense subject. . . . Animacies is a significant addition to disability theory, gender theory, linguistic theory, queer theory, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, and feminist theory, and is the first book, in my mind, to perform a transnational, transhistorical, and interdisciplinary investigation into the concept of animacy. It is a work that would be at home in both the undergraduate and the graduate classroom (certain chapters, at least), and should be read by any scholar of feminist, queer, disability, linguistic, or postcolonial bent. In this book, Chen has perfected the impossible art of writing a book that is, somehow, all things to all people—or at least, it should be. There is something for everyone here. Animacies is a groundbreaking work of interstitial scholarship. . .” -- Erin Kingsley * H-Disability, H-Net Reviews * “Throughout the book, Chen interweaves the topics and implications of society, race, biopolitics, sexuality, disability, and queer studies as it relates to linguistics, animacy, and animacy hierarchy. Chen utilizes an immense amount of examples through pictures, historical events, and theories to cover a large amount of material. Chen’s book touches upon many topics in Animacies and provides channels for further investigation and expansion for those who wish to study linguistics, disability studies, race, animal studies, gender, and sexuality studies.” -- Marissa Malady * Sexuality and Disability *"Animacies is an erudite mapping of the coerciveness of cosmological hierarchies of being, of the ontological classifications that deny life to the people, phenomena, and things that they sort into impossible solitudes." -- Jeffrey Jerome Cohen * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Animating Animacy 1 Part I * Words 1. Language and Mattering Humans 23 2. Queer Animation 57 Part II * Animals 3. Queer Animality 89 4. Animals, Sex, and Transsubstantiation 127 Part III * Metals 5. Lead's Racial Matters 159 6. Following Mercurial Affect 189 Afterword: The Spill and the Sea 223 Notes 239 Bibliography 261 Index 283

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Book SynopsisOffers a historical guide through the metamorphoses and tumultuous debates that have defined literary study in recent decades, as viewed by one of critical theory's most astute thinkers.Trade Review“Johnson’s real gift was to tackle the ‘dead white males’ of the canon and re-read them, looking for the women, ever alert to what she called ‘muteness envy’ in canonical poetry. She directed her attention to popular works, too, to films such as Thelma and Louise and The Piano, happy to bring Keats into the discussion as she did so. Such essays stress critical and creative vitality in the midst of death, and are still life-giving today, still radical, angry and passionate, yet always disciplined. Johnson asks acute questions, inserts the personal into her academic essays, and gives us new ideas about ‘how to read.’” -- Lesley McDowell * TLS *“Reading these essays, one finds them as sprightly, brilliant, and revelatory as ever. Johnson’s style—famous for the clarity that paradoxically masks and illuminates the argumentative complexity of the writing—is brisk, orderly, and economical. … Perhaps this is the moment to return to the intellectual upheaval of deconstruction, that almost forgotten art of reading and rereading. There is no better place to begin rereading than right here, with Barbara Johnson’s own startling and writerly prose.” -- Judith Brown * Modernism/modernity *“Essays on abortion, corporate personhood, and many other still contemporary issues show that, for Johnson, deconstruction was always deeply intertwined with lived political reality, and many of the best essays in the collection bridge the gap between readings of poems and analysis of life in various forms of political relation, often in the context of the surprising strangeness of the textual or human encounter. For Johnson, ‘the undecidable is the political. There is politics precisely because there is undecidability. And there is also poetry’ (p.227). The forms of her own essays, intriguing in the turns they take, the conclusions they draw, and the interpretations they bring forth from the texts they examine, highlight and perform this causal relationship in consistently insightful and surprising ways.” * Forum for Modern Language Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Editors' Preface xi Personhood and Other Objects: The Figural Dispute with Philosophy / Judith Butler xvii Barbara Johnson by Barbara Johnson xxvii Part I. Reading Theory as Literature, Literature as Theory 1. The Critical Difference: BartheS/BalZac 3 2. Translator's Introduction to Dissemination (abridged) 14 3. Poetry and Syntax: What the Gypsy Knew 26 4. A Hound, a Bay Horse, and a Turtle Dove: Obscurity in Walden 36 5. Strange Fits: Poe and Wordsworth on the Nature of Poetic Language 44 6. The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida 57 Part II. Race, Sexuality, Gender 7. Euphemism, Understatement, and the Passive Voice: A Geneaology of Afro-American Poetry 101 8. Metaphor, Metonymy, and Voice in Their Eyes Were Watching God 108 9. Moses and Intertextuality: Sigmund Freud, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Bible 126 10. Lesbian Spectacles: Reading Sula,

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Book SynopsisThe world-renowned filmmaker, artist, and critical theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha discusses the potentials and impact of new technology on cinema culture and explores its effects on creative practice.Trade Review"In a world of intervals—spaces between things—Trinh has the unique ability to connect things and to articulate their interdependence. Presence requires absence, something nothing, reality illusion, and being nonbeing. Trinh's perspective enables her to shed considerable light on the way digital technology 'impacts upon the foundation of our knowledge and upon our perceptions of the world.'" -- John Belton * Film Quarterly *"Trinh meditates on the complex interrelations between individual selves speaking from unique and particular places in space and time . . . between speakers-writers and readers-hearers. I would argue that embedded in that meditation are the traditional philosophical issues of nature of self, reality, and knowledge. Most important, however, Trinh touches on what I take as the core essence of philosophy, the reinvention of thought adequate to a changing world." -- Andrea Nye * Hypatia *“On formal grounds alone, D-Passage achieves a miraculous level of pushing the basis of academic publishing forward and calls into question the motivations behind any kind of ‘safe’ work, be it in the name of art or academia. Fortunately, Trinh is not only a provocateur in the best sense, but also a rigorous intellectual who is fully capable of managing experimental approaches without allowing these potentially unwieldy attempts to overwhelm the content of her work. Even better still – she appears to have a wicked sense of humor about it all.” -- Clayton Dillard * Journal of American Culture *"Trinh consistently challenges the readers to deform and form their understandings of digital arts and film, particularly in thinking of the impact of technology on the spirit of cinema. D-Passage transcends the clarity that academic discourse demands and makes itself readable for those who are willing to take up the challenge." -- Arezou Zalipour * Media International Australia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii I. Prelude Lotus Eye (Reading Miyazawa Kenji and Making Night Passage) 3 II. Script Night Passage (Film Script) 21 III. Conversations A Sound Print in the Human Archive with Sidsel Nelund 65 The Depth of Time with Alison Rowleyo 89 What's Eons New? with Rosa Reitsamer 121 The Politics of Forms and Forces with Eva Hohenberger 141 IV. Installation L'Autre marche (The Other Walk) 171 L'Entre-musée: The World, with Each Step with Elvan Zabunyan 183 Illustrations, Filmography, and Distribution 205 Index 207

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Book SynopsisExamines how the rise of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) has transformed the conditions of women's lives and of feminist organizing. This book brings together feminist research on NGOs from various perspectives and disciplines.Trade Review“Theorizing NGOs offers timely and insightful perspectives on the intersection between NGOs, women’s experiences of NGOs and feminism across the world. Bringing together scholarly writings on women’s experiences with NGOs from different parts of the globe is definitely one of the highlights of the volume. . . . This volume is a must read for anyone interested in gender and development, and in the anthropology of the state.” -- Lipika Kamra * Social Anthropology *"In representing more than a decade of energetic discussion and debate, this collection provides fantastic evidence of the dynamism and creativity of feminist activism in all of its forms.... It is a welcome and valuable contribution." -- Miranda Joseph * Women's Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The NGO Form: Feminist Struggles, States, and Neoliberalism / Victoria Bernal and Inderpal Grewal 1 Part I. NGOs Beyond Success or Failure 19 1. The Movementization of NGOs? Women's Organizing in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina / Elissa Helms 21 2. Failed Development and Rural Revolution in Nepal: Rethinking Subaltern Consciousness and Women's Empowerment / Lauren Leve 50 3. The State and Women's Empowerment in India Paradoxes and Politics / Aradhana Sharma 93 Part II. Postcolonial Neoliberalisms and the NGO Form 115 4. Global Civil Society and the Local Costs of Belonging: Defining Violence against Women in Russia / Julie Hemment 119 5. Resolving a Gendered Paradox: Women's Participation and the NGO Boom in North India / Kathleen O'Reilly 143 6. Power and Difference in Thai Women's NGO Activism / LeeRay M. Costa 166 7. Demystifying Microcredit: The Grameen Bank, NGOs, and Neoliberalism in Bangladesh / Lamia Karim 193 Part III. Feminist Social Movements and NGOs 219 8. Feminist Bastards: Toward a Posthumanist Critique of NGOization / Saida Hodzic 221 9. Lived Feminism(s) in Postcommunist Romania / Laura Grünberg 248 10. Women's Advocacy Networks: The European Union, Women's NGOs, and the Velvet Triangle / Sabine Lange 266 11. Beyond NGOization? Relrections from Latin America / Sonia E. Alvarez 285 Conclusion. Feminisms and the NGO Form / Victoria Bernal and Inderpal Grewal 301 Bibliography 311 Contributors 353 Index 357

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Book SynopsisAn impressionistic look at the life, death, and legacy of Che Guevera by the renowned feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall.Trade Review“Hundreds of books have been written about Che; the facts are documented, the myth celebrated. But with, as she calls it, ‘the intuition of a poet,’ Randall has created something unique – a compelling personal contemplation, an exploration of ‘the intimacy that has stayed with me all these years.’” -- Robert Woltman * Albuquerque Journal *“A well-written, brief reflection on Guevara and his time that will interest historians and social theorists.” -- Boyd Childress * Library Journal *“[A] series of reflections that alternately encompass personal reminiscence, biography, political analysis, nuggets of historical information, feminist hindsight and even poetry. . . . As with any good conversation, this book leaves the reader stimulated and enlightened with new questions to ponder. . . . We are simply listeners, treated to a very rich personal rendition of [Randall’s] own private tune of Che on my mind.” -- Sheyla Hirshon * Havana Times *"If you have not been thinking about Che, now you will. Our gifted poet, feminist author, and revolutionary thinker has given us a spare and ethical meditation on the lingering life and death of Ernesto Che Guevara. . . . Che on My Mind will invigorate and deepen your own thinking." -- Bernardine Dohrn * Monthly Review *“Che On My Mind stands not only as an arresting discussion of an enigmatic historical figure, but also as a testament to Randall’s own ability to fuse the observations of anti-imperialism and feminism into a formidable political and cultural concoction.” -- Nick Witham * LSE Review of Books *"This beautifully written reminiscence is 'the intution of a poet' . . . Such familiarity with Cuba and the guerrillas may not be unique among the innumerable writers on the century's best-known and perhaps most admired guerrillero, but no others have brought such sensitivity to the task." -- David Kunzle * The Americas *“Che on My Mind is a 160-page tour-de-force in which, with her poetic and visual sensibility, she considers Che Guevara's life and legacy. The slim tome is also a meditation on how her own beliefs on revolution have changed, a prose poem on the vicissitudes of protest, courage, and the tricks of time.” -- Jenny McPhee * Bookslut *“If you only read one book about Che Guevara, this is the book that I strongly recommend. . . . Perhaps only a poet could capture the complexities of the life, lives, myth and myths of Che. . . . [I]n the able and creative capacities of Margaret Randall, the many verses of Che's life are woven into an epic poem.” -- Budd Hall * Left History *“Part biography, part memoir, and part philosophical reflection on the relationship between means and ends in political activism, Che on My Mind is a slim yet refreshingly self-reflective (and beautifully assembled) collection of stories, analysis, and memoir. . . . It is a notably thin volume, yet meant to be read—I would think—not in a single sitting but slowly, with ample time to digest and ponder the interweaving of personal history with meditations on an era that is simultaneously growing distant and historical, yet whose connections, via the continued reproduction of Che iconography and the longevity of the Cuban revolution itself, now more place than state of mind, remain ever present.” -- Eric Zolov * EIAL *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. A Death That Leads Us Back to Life 1 2. In Cuba, Where Our Lives Came Together in the Everyday 11 3. Multiple Prisms 19 4. Conflicting Versions 29 5. "Socialism and Man in Cuba" 35 6. Tender Heart and Rigorous Moral Code 43 7. Empowerment of the Erotic 51 8. How the Man Was Made 59 9. Che and Fidel 67 10. Che and Haydée 75 11. Exercising Power, Exercising Solidarity 87 12. The Question without an Answer 95 13. War and Peace 99 14. Revolution and Religion 115 15. Che's Legacy for Today's Activists 125 16. Poetry Closes the Circle and Opens Infinite Circles 133 Notes 139 Bibliography 147

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Book SynopsisAn impressionistic look at the life, death, and legacy of Che Guevera by the renowned feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall.Trade Review“Hundreds of books have been written about Che; the facts are documented, the myth celebrated. But with, as she calls it, ‘the intuition of a poet,’ Randall has created something unique – a compelling personal contemplation, an exploration of ‘the intimacy that has stayed with me all these years.’” -- Robert Woltman * Albuquerque Journal *“A well-written, brief reflection on Guevara and his time that will interest historians and social theorists.” -- Boyd Childress * Library Journal *“[A] series of reflections that alternately encompass personal reminiscence, biography, political analysis, nuggets of historical information, feminist hindsight and even poetry. . . . As with any good conversation, this book leaves the reader stimulated and enlightened with new questions to ponder. . . . We are simply listeners, treated to a very rich personal rendition of [Randall’s] own private tune of Che on my mind.” -- Sheyla Hirshon * Havana Times *"If you have not been thinking about Che, now you will. Our gifted poet, feminist author, and revolutionary thinker has given us a spare and ethical meditation on the lingering life and death of Ernesto Che Guevara. . . . Che on My Mind will invigorate and deepen your own thinking." -- Bernardine Dohrn * Monthly Review *“Che On My Mind stands not only as an arresting discussion of an enigmatic historical figure, but also as a testament to Randall’s own ability to fuse the observations of anti-imperialism and feminism into a formidable political and cultural concoction.” -- Nick Witham * LSE Review of Books *"This beautifully written reminiscence is 'the intution of a poet' . . . Such familiarity with Cuba and the guerrillas may not be unique among the innumerable writers on the century's best-known and perhaps most admired guerrillero, but no others have brought such sensitivity to the task." -- David Kunzle * The Americas *“Che on My Mind is a 160-page tour-de-force in which, with her poetic and visual sensibility, she considers Che Guevara's life and legacy. The slim tome is also a meditation on how her own beliefs on revolution have changed, a prose poem on the vicissitudes of protest, courage, and the tricks of time.” -- Jenny McPhee * Bookslut *“If you only read one book about Che Guevara, this is the book that I strongly recommend. . . . Perhaps only a poet could capture the complexities of the life, lives, myth and myths of Che. . . . [I]n the able and creative capacities of Margaret Randall, the many verses of Che's life are woven into an epic poem.” -- Budd Hall * Left History *“Part biography, part memoir, and part philosophical reflection on the relationship between means and ends in political activism, Che on My Mind is a slim yet refreshingly self-reflective (and beautifully assembled) collection of stories, analysis, and memoir. . . . It is a notably thin volume, yet meant to be read—I would think—not in a single sitting but slowly, with ample time to digest and ponder the interweaving of personal history with meditations on an era that is simultaneously growing distant and historical, yet whose connections, via the continued reproduction of Che iconography and the longevity of the Cuban revolution itself, now more place than state of mind, remain ever present.” -- Eric Zolov * EIAL *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. A Death That Leads Us Back to Life 1 2. In Cuba, Where Our Lives Came Together in the Everyday 11 3. Multiple Prisms 19 4. Conflicting Versions 29 5. "Socialism and Man in Cuba" 35 6. Tender Heart and Rigorous Moral Code 43 7. Empowerment of the Erotic 51 8. How the Man Was Made 59 9. Che and Fidel 67 10. Che and Haydée 75 11. Exercising Power, Exercising Solidarity 87 12. The Question without an Answer 95 13. War and Peace 99 14. Revolution and Religion 115 15. Che's Legacy for Today's Activists 125 16. Poetry Closes the Circle and Opens Infinite Circles 133 Notes 139 Bibliography 147

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Book SynopsisOffers a collection of essays on Latin American, Caribbean, and US-based Latina feminisms and their multiple translations and cross-pollinations.Trade Review"One of the triumphs of this collection of essays is its breadth and depth regarding the notions of translation, translocation and the intersections of feminism, activism and language in and across many of the cultures within Latin America, and U.S. Latina/o diasporic communities." -- Ilana Dann Luna * Ameriquests *"[T]his collection is a brilliant contribution to feminist teaching and research on the constantly changing and fluid crossings of people, capital, cultures, and technologies. It is a beautifully presented set of narratives, theories, and visions that translate the differently lived and contested meanings of 'Latin/a' feminisms. It is grounded in the Americas but will resonate profoundly with all people engaged in feminist transnational communities and networks for social and political transformation." -- Wendy Harcourt * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction to the Project and the Volume: Enacting a Translocal Feminist Politics of Translation / Sonia E. Alvarez Introduction to the Debates about Translation: Lost (and Found?) in Translation: Feminisms in Hemispheric Dialogue / Claudia de Lima Costa Part I. Mobilizations/Mobilizing Theories/Texts/Images 1. Locating Women's Writing and Translation in the Americas in the Age of Latinamericanismo and Globalization / Norma Klahn 2. Is Anzaldúa Translatable in Bolivia? / Ana Rebeca Prada 3. Cravo Canela Bala e Favela: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Feminist Postcolonialities / Simone Pereira Schmidt 4. El Incansable Juego / The Untiring Game: Dominican Women Writing and Translating Ourselves / Isabel Espinal 5. Pedagogical Strategies for a Transnational Reading of Border Writers: Pairing a Triangle / Marisa Belaustaguigoita Rius Part II. Mediations/National/Transnational Identities/Circuits 6. Feminist Theories, Transnational Translations, and Cultural Mediations / Claudia de Lima Costa 7. Politics of Translation in Contemporary Mexican Feminism / Márgara Millán 8. Bodies in Translation: Health Promotion in Indigenous Mexican Migrant Communities in California / Rebecca J. Hester 9. Texts in Contexts: Reading Afro-Colombian Women's Activism / Kiran Asher 10. El Fruto de la Voz: The "Difference" of Moyeneí Valdés's Sound Break Politics / Macarena Gómez-Barris Part III. Migrations/Disrupting (B)orders 11. Translation and Transnationalization of Domestic Service / Teresa Carrillo 12. Chilean Domestic Labor: A Feminist Silence / Verónica Feliu 13. Performing Seduction and National Identity: Brazilian Erotic Dancers in New York / Suzana Maia 14. Transnational Sex Travels: Negotiating Identities in a Brazilian "Tropical Paradise" / Adriana Piscitelli Part III. Movement/Feminist/Social/Political/Postcolonial 15. Translenguas: Mapping the Possibilities and Challenges of Transnational Women's Organizing across Geographies of Difference / Maylei Blackwell 16. Queer/Lesbiana Dialogues among Feminist Movements in the Américas / Pascha Bueno-Hansen 17. Learning from Latinas: Translating Our Bodies, Ourselves as Transnational Feminist Text / Ester R. Shapiro 18. Women with Guns: Translating Gender in I, Rigoberta Menchú / Victoria M. Bañales 19. Translocal Space of Afro-Latinidad: Critical Feminist Visions for Diasporic Bridge-Building / Agustín Lao-Montes and Mirangela Buggs 20. Translations and Refusals: Resignifying Meanings as Feminist Political Practice / Millie Thayer References Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[On] Being Human as Praxis is a major contribution to growing efforts to bring Sylvia Wynter’s critical thought to the fore of contemporary critical social theory. The collection secures Wynter’s status as a heretical intellectual insisting on the relevance of the radical Black/Caribbean decolonial tradition to the systemic crises of the early 21st century planet." -- Anthony Bayani Rodriguez * Antipode *"In their combination, and in their resonance with Wynter’s intricate and expansive opening meditation on race, science, and human being, these essays present a complex and coherent intellectual project, at once deeply rooted and generously rhizomic." -- Kaiama L. Glover * Contemporary Women's Writing *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Yours in the Intellectual Struggle: Sylvia Wynter and the Realization of the Living / Katherine McKittrick 1 2. Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species? Or, to Give Humanness a Different Future: Conversations / Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick 9 3. Before Man: Sylvia Wynter's Rewriting of the Modern Episteme / Denise Ferreira da Silva 90 4. Sylvia Wynter: What Does It Mean to Be Human? / Walter D. Mignolo 106 5. Still Submerged: The Uninhabitability of Urban Redevelopment / Bench Ansfield 124 6. Axis, Bold as Love: On Sylvia Wynter, Jimi Hendrix, and the Promise of Science / Katherine McKittrick 142 7. Strategic Anti-Essentialism: Decolonizing Decolinization / Nandita Sharma 164 8. Genres of Human: Multiculturalism, Cosmo-politics, and the Caribbean Basin / Rinaldo Walcott 183 9. From Masquerade to Maskarade: Caribbean Cultural Resistance and the Rehumanizing Project / Carole Boyce Davies 203 10. "Come on Kid, Let's Go Get the Thing": The Sociogenic Principle and the Being of Being Black / Demetrius L. Eudell 226 Bibliography 249 Contributors 275 Index 277

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Speaking of the Self interrogate the varied ways in which a diverse group of mostly female writers from South Asia—from a seventeenth-century Mughal princess to twentieth century Pakistani novelists—construct and articulate their subjectivity through their autobiographical memoirs, poetry, novels, and diaries.Trade Review"The authors . . . present a significant corpus of scholarship relating to autobiography and gender which can apply broadly not only in South Asia but beyond. By carefully exploring important theoretical aspects and alternative examples of autobiography, the authors open new grounds and sources to critique autobiographical writing and methods." -- Niroshini Somasundaram * IIAS Newsletter *"Speaking of the Self is a significant contribution to understanding the complexities of representing the self by women . . . in South Asian cultures across regions and ages. It sensitizes the reader to the importance of the social, cultural, political, regional, and historical milieu in which the autobiographical narratives are played out." -- Monika Browarczyk * Biography *“These ten essays, along with a helpful introduction, come together to form an interesting and excellent collection. . . . All of these essays should be of interest to scholars and graduate students working on gender and women’s history in South Asia. Many would be useable within an undergraduate class on a wide range of related subjects." -- Judith Walsh * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia / Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley 1 Part I. Negotiating Autobiography: Between Assertion and Subversion 1. A Passion for Reading: The Role of Early Twentieth-Century Urdu Novels in the Construction of an Individual Female Identity in 1930s Hyderabad / Sylvia Vatuk 33 2. Pentimento: The Self beneath the Surface / Ritu Menon 56 3. Interrupted Stories: The Self-Narratives of Nazr Sajjad Hyder / Asiya Alam 72 4. Kailashabashini Debi's Janaika Grihabadhur Diary: A Women "Constructing" Her "Self" in Nineteenth-Century Bengal? / Shudhra Ray 95 Part II. Forms and Modes of Self-Fashioning 5. Betrayal, Anger, and Loss: Women Write the Partition in Pakistan / Uma Chakravarti 121 6. Tawa'if as Poet and Patron: Rethinking Women's Self-Representation / Shweta Sachdeva Jha 141 7. Masculine Modes of Female Subjectivity: The Case of Jahanara Begam / Afshan Bokhari 165 Part III. Destabilizing the Normative: The Heterogeneous Self 8. Performing a Persona: Reading Piro's Kafis / Anshu Malhotra 205 9. The Heart of a Gopi: Raihana Tyabji's Bhakti Devotionalism as Self-Representation / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley 230 10. Performing Gender and Faith in Indian Theater Autobiographies / Kathryn Hansen 255 Select Bibliography 281 Contributors 301 Index 305

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Book SynopsisMayra Rivera outlines the relationship between the ways ancient Christian thinkers and Western philosophers conceive of the "body" and "flesh." Rivera's analysis furthers developments in new materialism and helps us to better understand the influence of Christian texts on contemporary theorizations of social structure, gender, race, and faith.Trade Review“Rivera’s book is a poetic love song of our incarnate life. It’s a song I’ll gladly sing.” -- Jacob J. Erickson * Christian Century *"...Rivera’s text makes significant and noteworthy advancement, not only in theological anthropology, critical theory, and materiality, but also in an apophatic theology grounded in the immanent indeterminacy of multiplicity and relational, worldly ontology.... [A]n enjoyable 'must read' for many theologians, philosophers, and advanced graduate students." -- Brad Bannon * Reading Religion *"Situating the body in its spiritual, organic and social spheres of corporeal existence, the book thus argues toward a poetics of the flesh based on the relational materiality of the body and the world that makes a welcome move beyond the prevailing discourse around essentialist boundaries." -- Jajati K. Pradhan and Seema Singh * Journal of Postcolonial Writing *"Rivera has contributed another “must-read.” Its elegance is evident on the page itself, for the argument flows easily in the seemingly effortless interweaving of three complex terrains: biblical theology, a phenomenology of the flesh and its postmodern legacies, and the politics of ethnic, racial, and sexual identity that beckons our attention at the so-called end of metaphysics. No one can engage this subtle, labyrinthine, and mellifluous text without being made more aware of the possibilities of a new relational matrix for interpreting the world and disentangling its many injustices." -- Peter Casarella * Modern Theology *"Rivera identifies flesh as the root of many long-standing critiques of the body in theology and philosophy, and she sets out to unlock Christian imagination from conflations of flesh with sin, feminine and colonized bodies, and evil. The fruit of her labor is a beautiful invitation to reimagine and dwell in the rich complexity of enfleshed life within this world." -- Jodi L. A. Belcher * Anglican Theological Review *"[Poetics of the Flesh] represents an important milestone in theology and philosophy for the contemporary reader." -- Hector M. Varela Rios * Perspectivas *"This is an amazing, stunning, and rich work of philosophical erudition, intellectual suppleness, existential and intellectual passion." -- M. Shawn Copeland * Syndicate *"[A] wonderful book that is not only thoughtful in content but also delightful in form." -- Tat-siong Benny Liew * Syndicate *“Rivera takes what makes others nervous about flesh and puts it forward in productive terms. . . . Her work reverberates with visions of humanity as precarious and fragile, receptive to the world in perilous and promising ways.” -- Shelly Rambo * Journal of Religion *"Poetics of the Flesh is an excellent work of philosophy that bridges the divide between Christian theology and gender and race theory. . . . [Rivera] offers her own analysis of Christian theology and effectively applies that analysis to questions concerning gender and race." -- Noah Richardson * Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Both Flesh and Not 1 Part I: Regarding Christian Bodies 15 1. Becoming Flesh: The Gospel of John 19 2. Abandoning Flesh: The Letters of Paul 29 3. Embracing Flesh: Tertullian 43 Part II: The Philosophers' (Christian) Flesh 55 4. Incarnate Philosophy 59 5. The Ends of Flesh 87 Part III: A Labyrinth of Incarnations 111 6. Inescapable Bodies 117 7. Carnal Relations 133 Conclusion 153 Notes 159 Bibliography 193 Index 203

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Speaking of the Self interrogate the varied ways in which a diverse group of mostly female writers from South Asia—from a seventeenth-century Mughal princess to twentieth century Pakistani novelists—construct and articulate their subjectivity through their autobiographical memoirs, poetry, novels, and diaries.Trade Review"The authors . . . present a significant corpus of scholarship relating to autobiography and gender which can apply broadly not only in South Asia but beyond. By carefully exploring important theoretical aspects and alternative examples of autobiography, the authors open new grounds and sources to critique autobiographical writing and methods." -- Niroshini Somasundaram * IIAS Newsletter *"Speaking of the Self is a significant contribution to understanding the complexities of representing the self by women . . . in South Asian cultures across regions and ages. It sensitizes the reader to the importance of the social, cultural, political, regional, and historical milieu in which the autobiographical narratives are played out." -- Monika Browarczyk * Biography *“These ten essays, along with a helpful introduction, come together to form an interesting and excellent collection. . . . All of these essays should be of interest to scholars and graduate students working on gender and women’s history in South Asia. Many would be useable within an undergraduate class on a wide range of related subjects." -- Judith Walsh * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia / Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley 1 Part I. Negotiating Autobiography: Between Assertion and Subversion 1. A Passion for Reading: The Role of Early Twentieth-Century Urdu Novels in the Construction of an Individual Female Identity in 1930s Hyderabad / Sylvia Vatuk 33 2. Pentimento: The Self beneath the Surface / Ritu Menon 56 3. Interrupted Stories: The Self-Narratives of Nazr Sajjad Hyder / Asiya Alam 72 4. Kailashabashini Debi's Janaika Grihabadhur Diary: A Women "Constructing" Her "Self" in Nineteenth-Century Bengal? / Shudhra Ray 95 Part II. Forms and Modes of Self-Fashioning 5. Betrayal, Anger, and Loss: Women Write the Partition in Pakistan / Uma Chakravarti 121 6. Tawa'if as Poet and Patron: Rethinking Women's Self-Representation / Shweta Sachdeva Jha 141 7. Masculine Modes of Female Subjectivity: The Case of Jahanara Begam / Afshan Bokhari 165 Part III. Destabilizing the Normative: The Heterogeneous Self 8. Performing a Persona: Reading Piro's Kafis / Anshu Malhotra 205 9. The Heart of a Gopi: Raihana Tyabji's Bhakti Devotionalism as Self-Representation / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley 230 10. Performing Gender and Faith in Indian Theater Autobiographies / Kathryn Hansen 255 Select Bibliography 281 Contributors 301 Index 305

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Book SynopsisMayra Rivera outlines the relationship between the ways ancient Christian thinkers and Western philosophers conceive of the "body" and "flesh." Rivera's analysis furthers developments in new materialism and helps us to better understand the influence of Christian texts on contemporary theorizations of social structure, gender, race, and faith.Trade Review“Rivera’s book is a poetic love song of our incarnate life. It’s a song I’ll gladly sing.” -- Jacob J. Erickson * Christian Century *"...Rivera’s text makes significant and noteworthy advancement, not only in theological anthropology, critical theory, and materiality, but also in an apophatic theology grounded in the immanent indeterminacy of multiplicity and relational, worldly ontology.... [A]n enjoyable 'must read' for many theologians, philosophers, and advanced graduate students." -- Brad Bannon * Reading Religion *"Situating the body in its spiritual, organic and social spheres of corporeal existence, the book thus argues toward a poetics of the flesh based on the relational materiality of the body and the world that makes a welcome move beyond the prevailing discourse around essentialist boundaries." -- Jajati K. Pradhan and Seema Singh * Journal of Postcolonial Writing *"Rivera has contributed another “must-read.” Its elegance is evident on the page itself, for the argument flows easily in the seemingly effortless interweaving of three complex terrains: biblical theology, a phenomenology of the flesh and its postmodern legacies, and the politics of ethnic, racial, and sexual identity that beckons our attention at the so-called end of metaphysics. No one can engage this subtle, labyrinthine, and mellifluous text without being made more aware of the possibilities of a new relational matrix for interpreting the world and disentangling its many injustices." -- Peter Casarella * Modern Theology *"Rivera identifies flesh as the root of many long-standing critiques of the body in theology and philosophy, and she sets out to unlock Christian imagination from conflations of flesh with sin, feminine and colonized bodies, and evil. The fruit of her labor is a beautiful invitation to reimagine and dwell in the rich complexity of enfleshed life within this world." -- Jodi L. A. Belcher * Anglican Theological Review *"[Poetics of the Flesh] represents an important milestone in theology and philosophy for the contemporary reader." -- Hector M. Varela Rios * Perspectivas *"This is an amazing, stunning, and rich work of philosophical erudition, intellectual suppleness, existential and intellectual passion." -- M. Shawn Copeland * Syndicate *"[A] wonderful book that is not only thoughtful in content but also delightful in form." -- Tat-siong Benny Liew * Syndicate *“Rivera takes what makes others nervous about flesh and puts it forward in productive terms. . . . Her work reverberates with visions of humanity as precarious and fragile, receptive to the world in perilous and promising ways.” -- Shelly Rambo * Journal of Religion *"Poetics of the Flesh is an excellent work of philosophy that bridges the divide between Christian theology and gender and race theory. . . . [Rivera] offers her own analysis of Christian theology and effectively applies that analysis to questions concerning gender and race." -- Noah Richardson * Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Both Flesh and Not 1 Part I: Regarding Christian Bodies 15 1. Becoming Flesh: The Gospel of John 19 2. Abandoning Flesh: The Letters of Paul 29 3. Embracing Flesh: Tertullian 43 Part II: The Philosophers' (Christian) Flesh 55 4. Incarnate Philosophy 59 5. The Ends of Flesh 87 Part III: A Labyrinth of Incarnations 111 6. Inescapable Bodies 117 7. Carnal Relations 133 Conclusion 153 Notes 159 Bibliography 193 Index 203

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Book SynopsisIn Biocultural Creatures Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to create a new theory of the human that explains the mutual constitution of the body, environment, biology, and habitat, while offering new resources for responding to political and environmental crises.Trade Review"This is a remarkable book, of interest and highly recommended to any researcher—across scientific, social science, and humanities disciplines—exploring the intersections of life sciences and politics, 'filling out the conceptual hunches' of posthumanism, or in any way intrigued by how matter matters at all levels of our creaturely experience." -- Emily Beausoleil * Theory & Event *"Frost’s important text is creative, profoundly suggestive, and painstakingly argued." -- Romand Coles * Theory & Event *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Carbon 31 2. Membranes 53 3. Proteins 77 4. Oxygen 101 5. Time 119 Conclusion 147 Notes 161 References 167 Index 183

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Book SynopsisIn Biocultural Creatures Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to create a new theory of the human that explains the mutual constitution of the body, environment, biology, and habitat, while offering new resources for responding to political and environmental crises.Trade Review"This is a remarkable book, of interest and highly recommended to any researcher—across scientific, social science, and humanities disciplines—exploring the intersections of life sciences and politics, 'filling out the conceptual hunches' of posthumanism, or in any way intrigued by how matter matters at all levels of our creaturely experience." -- Emily Beausoleil * Theory & Event *"Frost’s important text is creative, profoundly suggestive, and painstakingly argued." -- Romand Coles * Theory & Event *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Carbon 31 2. Membranes 53 3. Proteins 77 4. Oxygen 101 5. Time 119 Conclusion 147 Notes 161 References 167 Index 183

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisIn Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they critique—often by naming and calling attention to problems—and how feminists learn about worlds from their efforts to transform them. Ahmed also provides her most sustained commentary on the figure of the feminist killjoy introduced in her earlier work while showing how feminists create inventive solutions—such as forming support systems—to survive the shattering experiences of facing the walls of racism and sexism. The killjoy survival kit and killjoy manifesto, with which the book concludes, supply practical tools for how to live a feminist life, thereby strengthening the ties between the inventive creation of feminist theoTrade Review"Fans of bell hooks and Audre Lorde will find Ahmed's frequent homages and references familiar and assuring in a work that goes far beyond Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, capturing the intersection so critical in modern feminism." -- Abby Hargreaves * Library Journal *"Living a Feminist Life is perhaps the most accessible and important of Ahmed’s works to date. . . . [A] quite dazzlingly lively, angry and urgent call to arms. . . In short, everybody should read Ahmed’s book precisely because not everybody will." -- Emma Rees * Times Higher Education *"Living a Feminist Life is a work of embodied political theory that defies the conventions of feminist memoir and self-help alike. . . . Living a Feminist Life makes visible the continuous work of feminism, whether it takes place on the streets, in the home, or in the office. Playful yet methodical, the book tries to construct a living feminism that is neither essentialist nor universalist." -- Melissa Gira Grant * Bookforum *"Undeniably, Ahmed’s book is a highly crafted work, both scholarly and lyrically, that builds upon itself and delivers concrete, adaptable conclusions; it is a gorgeous argument, crackling with kind wit and an invitation to the community of feminist killjoys." -- Theodosia Henney * Lambda Literary Review *"Beautifully written and persuasively argued, Living a Feminist Life is not just an instant classic, but an essential read for inter­sectional feminists." -- Ann A. Hamilton * Bitch *"This book is about a wriggling out, a speaking out. And it teaches me to write, to think, like this — word twists word, and body to thought. Because for Ahmed, words make worlds and her book — the first after she left academia in feminist revolt — is full of bluesy world-play." -- Caren Beilin * Full Stop *"Living a Feminist Life is the perfect introduction to Ahmed’s academic work, if a general reader is unfamiliar with her. . . . For me, her lack of despair is the book’s strongest point. Ahmed’s work is as cutting and critical as it is joyful. There is a distinct hope and optimism for the future of diversity work – but still a demand for better." -- Evelyn Deshane * The F-Word *"Ahmed gifts us words that we may have difficulty finding for ourselves.... [R]eading her book provides a tentative vision for a feminist ethics for radical politics that is applicable far beyond what is traditionally considered the domain of feminism." -- Mahvish Ahmad * The New Inquiry *"Anyone at odds with this world—and we all ought to be—owes it to themselves, and to the goal of a better tomorrow, to read this book." -- Mariam Rahmani * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Living a Feminist Life offers something halfway between the immediacy and punch of the blog and the multi-layered considerations of a scholarly essay; the result is one of the most politically engaged, complex and personal books on gender politics we have seen in a while." -- Bidisha * TLS *"Especially compelling is Ahmed’s insistence that living as a feminist is not a sudden, euphoric escape from patriarchy and other structures of domination. Instead, it’s a lifelong project of chipping away at regimes that continue to exert considerable force. To practice feminism is therefore to encounter both frustration and widespread disapproval. It means, Ahmed warns, being seen as selfish, mean, and chronically dissatisfied—the bringer of discord to family dinners and professional meetings alike. For those of us willing to pay the price, Living a Feminist Life assures us we’re in good company." -- Susan Fraiman * Critical Inquiry *"Ahmed ... writes theory like nobody else.... Ahmed’s book is a feminist gift for its readers. You are invited to enjoy it, the rhythm and all." -- Leena-Maija Rossi * European Journal of Women's Studies *"It’s not easy being a feminist and Sara Ahmed has written a powerful, thought provoking and moving account of just what that means. But more than that, she provides us with a survival guide, some coping strategies combined with wisdom and inspiration. To read this book is to feel the warmth and strength of a sister(hood) wrapped around you." -- Heather Savigny * European Journal of Women's Studies *"Ahmed does for her readers what Audre Lorde did for her – document a way to live differently." -- Katherine Parker-Hay * Textual Practice *"[Ahmed's] prose style . . . is incantatory and quizzical, probing and playful. . . . Ahmed holds particular words up to the light and lets their unsuspected facets gleam, polishing their queer potential." -- Catherine Keyser * Public Books *"Living a Feminist Life hopes we can survive doing feminist theory, and energises us to do so." -- Clare Croft * Feminist Theory *“I live in south London, not far from where Sara used to lecture, so her work has always felt close, with an ability to touch and grasp—a quality academic feminist discourse often lacks. This book allows everyone to grasp, wrestle, and digest it, proving yet again that making theory accessible does not have to compromise quality. If anything, it’s quite the opposite.” -- Travis Alabanza * Out *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Bringing Feminist Theory Home 1 Part I. Becoming Feminist 19 1. Feminism Is Sensational 21 2. On Being Directed 43 3. Willfulness and Feminist Subjectivity 65 Part II. Diversity Work 4. Trying to Transform 93 5. Being in Question 115 6. Brick Walls 135 Part III. Living the Consequences 7. Fragile Connections 163 8. Feminist Snap 187 9. Lesbian Feminism 213 Conclusion 1. A Killjoy Survival Kit 235 Conclusion 2. A Killjoy Manifesto 251 Notes 269 References 281 Index 291

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Book SynopsisSusan Merrill Squier follows the cultural trail of C. H. Waddington's "epigenetic landscape" metaphor from its first visualization by the artist John Piper to its use beyond science, examining how it has been used to illustrate complex systems that link scientific and cultural practices: graphic medicine, landscape architecture, and bioArt.Trade Review"A largely insightful, informative and enjoyable read . . . an academic text as well as an insightful view into the remarkable melding of science and art." -- Rebecca Rahimi * Science, Medicine, and Anthropology *"Squier deserves many thanks for opening up new vistas in the history of science." -- Erik L. Peterson * Isis *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Figuring Development beyond the Gene 1 1. The Epigenetic Landscape 21 2. A New Landscape of Thought: Behind Appearance 51 3. Embryo 69 4. The Graphic Embryo 87 5. The River in the Landscape 129 6. Designing Rivers 161 7. "A Complex System of Interactions": Art Laboratory Berlin as an Epigenetic Landscape 183 Conclusion. Anastomosis 205 Notes 215 References 241 Index 259

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Book SynopsisSusan Merrill Squier follows the cultural trail of C. H. Waddington's "epigenetic landscape" metaphor from its first visualization by the artist John Piper to its use beyond science, examining how it has been used to illustrate complex systems that link scientific and cultural practices: graphic medicine, landscape architecture, and bioArt.Trade Review"A largely insightful, informative and enjoyable read . . . an academic text as well as an insightful view into the remarkable melding of science and art." -- Rebecca Rahimi * Science, Medicine, and Anthropology *"Squier deserves many thanks for opening up new vistas in the history of science." -- Erik L. Peterson * Isis *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Figuring Development beyond the Gene 1 1. The Epigenetic Landscape 21 2. A New Landscape of Thought: Behind Appearance 51 3. Embryo 69 4. The Graphic Embryo 87 5. The River in the Landscape 129 6. Designing Rivers 161 7. "A Complex System of Interactions": Art Laboratory Berlin as an Epigenetic Landscape 183 Conclusion. Anastomosis 205 Notes 215 References 241 Index 259

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Book SynopsisInderpal Grewal traces the changing relations between the US state and its citizens in an era she calls advanced neoliberalism, under which everyday life is militarized, humanitarianism serves imperial aims, and white Christian men become exceptional citizens tasked with protecting the nation from racialized others.Trade Review"[Grewal] expertly demonstrates how, whether via militarism or humanitarianism, with both always racialized, the exceptional citizen labors to uphold US empire and the exceptionalism that justifies and rationalizes it." -- Jennifer Kelly * Radical History Review *"In this book, Grewal captures—through her multidisciplinary engagement with the key features of early twenty-first-century American political life—something important and troubling about the odd state of affairs in which we find ourselves here in the post-9/11 digital age. . . . This is a bold, brave, and forthright book." -- Tina Fernandes Botts * Hypatia Reviews Online *"[This book] deserves to find its way onto the reading lists of university departments for a variety of subjects. . . a tour de force." -- Columba Achilleos-Sarll * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"This book is a carefully crafted volume, with most impressive documentation, a critical contribution that explains the pervasiveness of the 'security mom' and its complement, a fascist near-future." -- Daniel Zirker * Australasian Journal of American Studies *"Saving the Security State is a fascinating, nuanced study of a topic that possesses an enormous amount of importance in contemporary society. ... Grewal’s focus on exceptional citizenship and American imperialisms at home and abroad make[s] this book exceptional." -- Joseph Michael Gratale * European Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Exceptional Citizens? Saving and Surveilling in Advanced Neoliberal Times 1 1. Katrina, American Exceptionalism, and the Security State 33 2. American Humanitarian Citizenship: The "Soft" Power of Empire 59 3. Muslims, Missionaries, and Humanitarians 87 4. "Security Moms" and "Security Feminists": Securitizing Family and State 118 5. Digital Natives: Threats, Technologies, Markets 144 Coda. The "Shooter" 185 Notes 205 Bibliography 261 Index 309

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Book SynopsisIn Saving the Security State Inderpal Grewal traces the changing relations between the US state and its citizens in an era she calls advanced neoliberalism. Marked by the decline of US geopolitical power, endless war, and increasing surveillance, advanced neoliberalism militarizes everyday life while producing the “exceptional citizens”—primarily white Christian men who reinforce the security state as they claim responsibility for protecting the country from racialized others. Under advanced neoliberalism, Grewal shows, others in the United Statesstrive to become exceptional by participating in humanitarian projects that compensate for the security state''s inability to provide for the welfare of its citizens. In her analyses of microfinance programs in the global South, security moms, the murders at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, and the post-9/11 crackdown on Muslim charities, Grewal exposes the fissures and contradictions at the heart of the US neoliberal Trade Review"[Grewal] expertly demonstrates how, whether via militarism or humanitarianism, with both always racialized, the exceptional citizen labors to uphold US empire and the exceptionalism that justifies and rationalizes it." -- Jennifer Kelly * Radical History Review *"In this book, Grewal captures—through her multidisciplinary engagement with the key features of early twenty-first-century American political life—something important and troubling about the odd state of affairs in which we find ourselves here in the post-9/11 digital age. . . . This is a bold, brave, and forthright book." -- Tina Fernandes Botts * Hypatia Reviews Online *"[This book] deserves to find its way onto the reading lists of university departments for a variety of subjects. . . a tour de force." -- Columba Achilleos-Sarll * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"This book is a carefully crafted volume, with most impressive documentation, a critical contribution that explains the pervasiveness of the 'security mom' and its complement, a fascist near-future." -- Daniel Zirker * Australasian Journal of American Studies *"Saving the Security State is a fascinating, nuanced study of a topic that possesses an enormous amount of importance in contemporary society. ... Grewal’s focus on exceptional citizenship and American imperialisms at home and abroad make[s] this book exceptional." -- Joseph Michael Gratale * European Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Exceptional Citizens? Saving and Surveilling in Advanced Neoliberal Times 1 1. Katrina, American Exceptionalism, and the Security State 33 2. American Humanitarian Citizenship: The "Soft" Power of Empire 59 3. Muslims, Missionaries, and Humanitarians 87 4. "Security Moms" and "Security Feminists": Securitizing Family and State 118 5. Digital Natives: Threats, Technologies, Markets 144 Coda. The "Shooter" 185 Notes 205 Bibliography 261 Index 309

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Book SynopsisLaura E. Pérez analyzes Latina art to explore a new notion of decolonial thought and love based on the integration of body, mind, and spirit that offers a means to creating a more democratic and just present and future.Trade Review“Laura E. Pérez renews the precepts of 1950s Third World liberation and extends the contemporary politics of women-of-color freedom fighters into the future. She speaks with many voices—the learned scholar, the analyst, the teacher, the maker of new aesthetics, the poet, the dreamer, and the guide—and offers her readers a multitude of routes for crossing academic and subjective terrains to find new possibilities for thinking, doing, and being. An outstanding work of decolonial writing by one of the great Chicana feminist philosophers of our time, Eros Ideologies is exactly the book I have needed to best teach my undergraduate and graduate students.” -- Chela Sandoval, author of * Methodology of the Oppressed *“Laura E. Pérez’s newest book is a tour de force that integrates the mind-body-spirit through a series of writings that weave together the theoretical and poetical within the context of decolonization. She explores the works of artists like Gloria Anzaldúa, Ester Hernández, and Consuelo Jiménez Underwood as she crosses disciplines to bring the embodied psyche to bear on questions of the erotic and the spiritual.” -- Amalia Mesa-Bains, Professor Emerita, California State University, Monterey Bay"Pérez eloquently reflects on activism, art, philosophy, poetry, politics, and selfhood. She offers radical reappraisals of the art of Frida Kahlo, Ana Mendieta, Esther Hernández, and Liliana Wilson, among many artists whose histories have been obfuscated by Eurocentric ideas and whose praxes she creatively reexamines. This cross-disciplinary study powerfully recombines theoretical and literary sources that speak to academic practice, lived experience, and poetic meditation. Writing in multiple authorial voices, Pérez shatters the high/low art dichotomy that has often segregated Latinx art history from mainstream US culture. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- L. Estevez * Choice *"Readers unfamiliar with Latina, especially Chicana, art and politics are treated to eye-opening beauty mixed with expressions of suffering and resistance. Readers already immersed in the culturally rich world of protest art foregrounding gender and eroticisim will find new ways into the multilayered visionaries featured here." -- Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer * Religion *"Eros Ideologies is a teacherly text: Pérez shows us not only how to look at, but also how to be with, art of the Americas.… Certainly, the use of personal prose in scholarly publications is not unprecedented in the discourses of ethnic studies, anthropology, history, literature, art, and cultural studies; but Pérez's approach is tactical as readers enter her classroom—a space of 'heart and hearth'—where she interweaves decades of close study of theoretical and spiritual texts, lifelong contemplations of artwork, and the conversations she has maintained with the many artists who made them." -- Ella Maria Diaz * Latino Studies *"Eros Ideologies can serve as an approachable and valuable introduction to very urgent concerns." -- Andrew William Lee * Religion and the Arts *"It is Pérez’s mindful contributions of eros, agape, philia, In lak’ech, love, and respect for art that mark this book as a starting point in discussion of works by people of color, mostly Latinx and women artists. . . . As beautiful as Pérez’s writings on the subjects can be, as rich with historical connections calling upon syncretism and community care, these analyses are primers for further work to be done." -- Helman Alejandro Sosa * Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Preface xv Acknowledgments xxi 1. The Social Body of Love: Crafting Decolonial Methodologies 1 2. Eros Ideologies and Methodology of the Oppressed 17 3. Long Nguyen: Flesh of the Inscrutable 24 4. Hidden Avant-Gardes: Contemporary U.S. Latina/o Art 27 5. Freedom and Gender in Ester Hernández's Libertad 34 6. 'Ginas in the Atelier 40 7. The Poetry of Embodiment: Series and Variation in Linda Arreola's Vaguely Chicana 52 8. Art and Museums 56 9. The@-Erotics in Alex Donis's My Cathedral 70 10. Con o sin permiso (With or without Permission): Chicana Badgirls: Las hociconas 77 11. Maestrapeace: Picturing the Power of Women's Histories of Creativity 82 12. Decolonizing Self-Portraits of Frida Kahlo, Ana Mendieta, and Yreina D. Cervántez 91 13. Undead Darwinism and the Fault Lines of Neocolonialism in Latina/o Art Worlds 112 14. The Inviolate Erotic in the Paintings of Liliana Wilson 126 15. The Performance of Spirituality and Visionary Politics in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa 133 16. Daughters Shaking Earth 147 17 Fashioning Decolonial Optics: Days of the Dead Walking Altars and Calavera Fashion Shows in Latina/o Los Angeles 155 18. On Jean Pierre Larochette and Yael Lurie's Water Songs 174 19. Prayers for the Planet: Reweaving the Natural and the Social: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's Welcome to Flower-Landai 179 20. "Undocu Nation," Creativity, Integrity 192 21. Writing with Crooked Lines 201 Notes 211 References 245 Index 263

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Book SynopsisLaura E. Pérez analyzes Latina art to explore a new notion of decolonial thought and love based on the integration of body, mind, and spirit that offers a means to creating a more democratic and just present and future.Trade Review“Laura E. Pérez renews the precepts of 1950s Third World liberation and extends the contemporary politics of women-of-color freedom fighters into the future. She speaks with many voices—the learned scholar, the analyst, the teacher, the maker of new aesthetics, the poet, the dreamer, and the guide—and offers her readers a multitude of routes for crossing academic and subjective terrains to find new possibilities for thinking, doing, and being. An outstanding work of decolonial writing by one of the great Chicana feminist philosophers of our time, Eros Ideologies is exactly the book I have needed to best teach my undergraduate and graduate students.” -- Chela Sandoval, author of * Methodology of the Oppressed *“Laura E. Pérez’s newest book is a tour de force that integrates the mind-body-spirit through a series of writings that weave together the theoretical and poetical within the context of decolonization. She explores the works of artists like Gloria Anzaldúa, Ester Hernández, and Consuelo Jiménez Underwood as she crosses disciplines to bring the embodied psyche to bear on questions of the erotic and the spiritual.” -- Amalia Mesa-Bains, Professor Emerita, California State University, Monterey Bay"Pérez eloquently reflects on activism, art, philosophy, poetry, politics, and selfhood. She offers radical reappraisals of the art of Frida Kahlo, Ana Mendieta, Esther Hernández, and Liliana Wilson, among many artists whose histories have been obfuscated by Eurocentric ideas and whose praxes she creatively reexamines. This cross-disciplinary study powerfully recombines theoretical and literary sources that speak to academic practice, lived experience, and poetic meditation. Writing in multiple authorial voices, Pérez shatters the high/low art dichotomy that has often segregated Latinx art history from mainstream US culture. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- L. Estevez * Choice *"Readers unfamiliar with Latina, especially Chicana, art and politics are treated to eye-opening beauty mixed with expressions of suffering and resistance. Readers already immersed in the culturally rich world of protest art foregrounding gender and eroticisim will find new ways into the multilayered visionaries featured here." -- Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer * Religion *"Eros Ideologies is a teacherly text: Pérez shows us not only how to look at, but also how to be with, art of the Americas.… Certainly, the use of personal prose in scholarly publications is not unprecedented in the discourses of ethnic studies, anthropology, history, literature, art, and cultural studies; but Pérez's approach is tactical as readers enter her classroom—a space of 'heart and hearth'—where she interweaves decades of close study of theoretical and spiritual texts, lifelong contemplations of artwork, and the conversations she has maintained with the many artists who made them." -- Ella Maria Diaz * Latino Studies *"Eros Ideologies can serve as an approachable and valuable introduction to very urgent concerns." -- Andrew William Lee * Religion and the Arts *"It is Pérez’s mindful contributions of eros, agape, philia, In lak’ech, love, and respect for art that mark this book as a starting point in discussion of works by people of color, mostly Latinx and women artists. . . . As beautiful as Pérez’s writings on the subjects can be, as rich with historical connections calling upon syncretism and community care, these analyses are primers for further work to be done." -- Helman Alejandro Sosa * Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Preface xv Acknowledgments xxi 1. The Social Body of Love: Crafting Decolonial Methodologies 1 2. Eros Ideologies and Methodology of the Oppressed 17 3. Long Nguyen: Flesh of the Inscrutable 24 4. Hidden Avant-Gardes: Contemporary U.S. Latina/o Art 27 5. Freedom and Gender in Ester Hernández's Libertad 34 6. 'Ginas in the Atelier 40 7. The Poetry of Embodiment: Series and Variation in Linda Arreola's Vaguely Chicana 52 8. Art and Museums 56 9. The@-Erotics in Alex Donis's My Cathedral 70 10. Con o sin permiso (With or without Permission): Chicana Badgirls: Las hociconas 77 11. Maestrapeace: Picturing the Power of Women's Histories of Creativity 82 12. Decolonizing Self-Portraits of Frida Kahlo, Ana Mendieta, and Yreina D. Cervántez 91 13. Undead Darwinism and the Fault Lines of Neocolonialism in Latina/o Art Worlds 112 14. The Inviolate Erotic in the Paintings of Liliana Wilson 126 15. The Performance of Spirituality and Visionary Politics in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa 133 16. Daughters Shaking Earth 147 17 Fashioning Decolonial Optics: Days of the Dead Walking Altars and Calavera Fashion Shows in Latina/o Los Angeles 155 18. On Jean Pierre Larochette and Yael Lurie's Water Songs 174 19. Prayers for the Planet: Reweaving the Natural and the Social: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's Welcome to Flower-Landai 179 20. "Undocu Nation," Creativity, Integrity 192 21. Writing with Crooked Lines 201 Notes 211 References 245 Index 263

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Book SynopsisIn Politics with Beauvoir Lori Marso treats Simone de Beauvoir's feminist theory and practice as part of her political theory, arguing that freedom is Beauvoir's central concern and that this is best apprehended through the notion of the encounter.Trade Review"[Marso's] work on de Beauvoir demonstrates convincingly the inaccuracy of reading feminist theory as a species of thinking separated from politics." -- Kathleen B. Jones * Los Angeles Review of Books *"A gripping and novel reading of Simone de Beauvoir’s politics of freedom and Beauvoirian feminism. . . . A welcome contribution to Beauvoir scholarship and feminist political theory." -- Megan Burke * H-France, H-Net Reviews *"Marso brilliantly demonstrates the way in which encounter is at the very center of everything Beauvoir wrote . . . . An important new contribution that extends studies on Beauvoir." -- Mary Walsh * Review of Politics *"This book has a wide appeal. . . . Informative and accessible." -- Angela Shepherd * Feminist Theory *“Politics with Beauvoir is an essential text for any scholar who is interested in expanding their engagement with Beauvoir’s work. Just as the Beauvoirian encounters Marso stages in this text illuminate the fecundity of real engagement with alterity and difference, so, too, does the text itself show the possibilities for encounters in a world where Beauvoir truly becomes ours.” -- Qrescent Mali Mason * Asian Journal of Social Science *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Our Beauvoir 1 1. (Re)Encountering The Second Sex 17 Part I. Enemies: Monsters, Men, and Misogynist Art 2. "An Eye for an Eye" with Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem 41 3. The Marquis de Sade's Bodies in Lars von Trier's Antichrist 67 Part II. Allies: Antinomies of Action in Conditions of Violence 4. Violence, Pathologies, and Resistance in Frantz Fanon 97 5. In Solidarity with Richard Wright 122 Part III. Friends: Conversations that Change the Rules 6. Perverse Protests from Chantal Akerman to Lars von Trier 153 7. Unbecoming Women with Violette Leduc, Rahel Varnhagen, and Margarethe von Trotta 176 Conclusion: A Happy Ending 203 Notes 209 References 235 Index 247

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Book SynopsisSara R. Farris examines the calls for gender equality from an unlikely collection of European right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policymakers, showing how their exploitation of feminist ideals justifies anti-Islam and anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies.Trade Review"[Farris's] reading of 'femonationalism' as a symptom of neoliberal capitalism gives little hope that a quick or effective solution is possible for the crises at hand. So we are left without certain answers, and that’s as it should be." -- Joan W. Scott * The Nation *"The pertinence of Farris’s volume, especially in the development of immigration policies, is undeniable." -- Visnja Krstic * Cultural Sociology *"Brilliant. . . . Through [Farris's] careful analysis of the political economic dimensions of femonationalism, certain elements of our contemporary landscape are illuminated with startling and disturbing clarity." -- Catherine Rottenberg * Jadaliyya *"A brave monograph." -- Judith Whitehead * Monthly Review *"In the Name of Women’s Rights is a timely book with an impressive scope and rich theoretical diversity. . . . A must-read for anyone concerned with the appropriation of feminism or the operation of Islamophobia in contemporary Europe." -- Julie E. Dowsett * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"Welcome and invigorating." -- Peter Coviello * The Immanent Frame *“In the Name of Women’s Rights is an important and timely contribution to the fields of sociology, gender and women studies, and migration studies. Highly recommended." -- Maya El Helou * Refuge *"An incisive intervention in how we understand rescue narratives of Muslim and non-Western migrant men as perpetrators of violence against Muslim and non-Western migrant women. . . . An important contribution to a range of fields including but not limited to critical race theory, transnational studies, gender and sexuality studies, political science, and sociology." -- Sasha A. Khan * Feminist Formations *"A highly readable, insightful and alarming account of the deployment of a discourse of women’s rights by racist and nationalist movements in Europe. . . . This is a work that deserves to be widely read." -- Gargi Bhattacharyya * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Farris’s book is comprehensive, thorough, and masterly in accomplishing her key objective, which is, to draw feminist attention toward a new political economic configuration in which neoliberal conditions, feminist politics of gender equality, and right-wing nationalism coalesce to sustain exploitative ideological and material relations between western and nonwestern women. It is indeed a timely and needed study of the political and ethical costs to feminism of the concurrence of civilizational politics and neoliberal economics and thus has applications beyond the European context." -- Amina Jamal * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: In the Name of Women's Rights 1 1. Figures of Femonationalism 22 2. Femonationalism Is No Populism 57 3. Integration Policies and the Institutionalization of Femonationalism 78 4. Femonationalism, Neoliberalism, and Social Reproduction 115 5. The Political Economy of Femonationalism 146 Notes 183 Bibliography 229 Index 253

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Book SynopsisIn Politics with Beauvoir Lori Marso treats Simone de Beauvoir's feminist theory and practice as part of her political theory, arguing that freedom is Beauvoir's central concern and that this is best apprehended through the notion of the encounter.Trade Review"[Marso's] work on de Beauvoir demonstrates convincingly the inaccuracy of reading feminist theory as a species of thinking separated from politics." -- Kathleen B. Jones * Los Angeles Review of Books *"A gripping and novel reading of Simone de Beauvoir’s politics of freedom and Beauvoirian feminism. . . . A welcome contribution to Beauvoir scholarship and feminist political theory." -- Megan Burke * H-France, H-Net Reviews *"Marso brilliantly demonstrates the way in which encounter is at the very center of everything Beauvoir wrote . . . . An important new contribution that extends studies on Beauvoir." -- Mary Walsh * Review of Politics *"This book has a wide appeal. . . . Informative and accessible." -- Angela Shepherd * Feminist Theory *“Politics with Beauvoir is an essential text for any scholar who is interested in expanding their engagement with Beauvoir’s work. Just as the Beauvoirian encounters Marso stages in this text illuminate the fecundity of real engagement with alterity and difference, so, too, does the text itself show the possibilities for encounters in a world where Beauvoir truly becomes ours.” -- Qrescent Mali Mason * Asian Journal of Social Science *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Our Beauvoir 1 1. (Re)Encountering The Second Sex 17 Part I. Enemies: Monsters, Men, and Misogynist Art 2. "An Eye for an Eye" with Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem 41 3. The Marquis de Sade's Bodies in Lars von Trier's Antichrist 67 Part II. Allies: Antinomies of Action in Conditions of Violence 4. Violence, Pathologies, and Resistance in Frantz Fanon 97 5. In Solidarity with Richard Wright 122 Part III. Friends: Conversations that Change the Rules 6. Perverse Protests from Chantal Akerman to Lars von Trier 153 7. Unbecoming Women with Violette Leduc, Rahel Varnhagen, and Margarethe von Trotta 176 Conclusion: A Happy Ending 203 Notes 209 References 235 Index 247

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Book SynopsisClare Hemmings examines the significance of the anarchist activist and thinker Emma Goldman for contemporary feminist politics, showing how the contradictory and ambivalent aspects of Goldman's thought for feminism can be used to open new avenues for theorizing gender, sexuality, and race.Trade Review"Incredibly thorough and deeply researched, Considering Emma Goldman is a valuable continuation in conversations of feminist theory, race, capitalism, sexuality, and of course Emma Goldman herself." -- Sarah Moazeni * American Communist History *"Hemmings offers a rich, complex and searching new engagement with Goldman’s life and politics. . . . By considering Goldman, Hemmings shines a light on a life lived with panache to urge continuing, unbound and imperfect engagement with the dilemmas that feminists too often struggle to resolve." -- Ruth Kinna * LSE Review of Books *"Clare Hemmings has written a rich and thoughtful book from which we can learn a great deal." -- Kathy F. Ferguson * Theory & Event *"Considering Emma Goldman is a must-read, invariably insightful, sometimes painful, always provocative and, in my humble opinion, uncomfortably spot-on." -- Kathy Davis * European Journal of Women's Studies *"Clare Hemmings is an extremely astute reader and user of both the subjective and the critical archive on Emma Goldman. She is as well-versed in the literature as one could possibly hope. She is a passionate and determined author. Too, she is convincing that we should turn to rather than away from uncomfortable passages in those whose work we study, as these are potentially among the more fruitful, revealing moments." -- Penny Weiss * Hypatia Reviews Online *"This volume challenges us to be willing to take risks—as Goldman did—both in our theorizing and in our lives, and to highlight and examine the contradictions we experience, rather than denying them." -- Martha Ackelsberg * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Women and Revolution 37 2. Race and Internationalism 80 3. Sexual Politics and Sexual Freedom 125 4. A Longing for Letters 168 Conclusion: From Passion to Panache 217 Notes 237 References 259 Index 285

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Book SynopsisClare Hemmings examines the significance of the anarchist activist and thinker Emma Goldman for contemporary feminist politics, showing how the contradictory and ambivalent aspects of Goldman's thought for feminism can be used to open new avenues for theorizing gender, sexuality, and race.Trade Review"Incredibly thorough and deeply researched, Considering Emma Goldman is a valuable continuation in conversations of feminist theory, race, capitalism, sexuality, and of course Emma Goldman herself." -- Sarah Moazeni * American Communist History *"Hemmings offers a rich, complex and searching new engagement with Goldman’s life and politics. . . . By considering Goldman, Hemmings shines a light on a life lived with panache to urge continuing, unbound and imperfect engagement with the dilemmas that feminists too often struggle to resolve." -- Ruth Kinna * LSE Review of Books *"Clare Hemmings has written a rich and thoughtful book from which we can learn a great deal." -- Kathy F. Ferguson * Theory & Event *"Considering Emma Goldman is a must-read, invariably insightful, sometimes painful, always provocative and, in my humble opinion, uncomfortably spot-on." -- Kathy Davis * European Journal of Women's Studies *"Clare Hemmings is an extremely astute reader and user of both the subjective and the critical archive on Emma Goldman. She is as well-versed in the literature as one could possibly hope. She is a passionate and determined author. Too, she is convincing that we should turn to rather than away from uncomfortable passages in those whose work we study, as these are potentially among the more fruitful, revealing moments." -- Penny Weiss * Hypatia Reviews Online *"This volume challenges us to be willing to take risks—as Goldman did—both in our theorizing and in our lives, and to highlight and examine the contradictions we experience, rather than denying them." -- Martha Ackelsberg * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Women and Revolution 37 2. Race and Internationalism 80 3. Sexual Politics and Sexual Freedom 125 4. A Longing for Letters 168 Conclusion: From Passion to Panache 217 Notes 237 References 259 Index 285

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

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Book SynopsisRuthchild's study reveals that Russian feminists were an integral force for revolution and social change, particularly during the monumental uprisings of 1905-1917.

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Book SynopsisChoi Chatterjee analyzes both Bolshevik attitudes towards women and the invented state rituals surrounding Women's Day to demonstrate the ways these celebrations helped construct gender notions in the Soviet Union.

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Book SynopsisUsing deconstruction, this book approaches contemporary problems raised by technologies of life and death from cloning to capital punishment; and thereby, provides new insights into current debates from a perspective outside of mainstream philosophy with its assumptions of individual and political sovereignty.Trade Review"In Technologies of Life and Death Kelly Oliver addresses some of the most intractable ethical issues of our day. The relevance of continental philosophy in general and of Derridean deconstruction in particular has rarely been demonstrated with such lucidity." -- -Robert Bernasconi Penn State University "In this creative, fascinating, witty, and remarkably fearless book, Oliver takes on the most important questions of human existence (including the meaning of birth and death and the limits of the human) and reframes them for us in thought-provoking ways." -- -Elissa Marder Emory University

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Book SynopsisUsing deconstruction, this book approaches contemporary problems raised by technologies of life and death from cloning to capital punishment; and thereby, provides new insights into current debates from a perspective outside of mainstream philosophy with its assumptions of individual and political sovereignty.Trade Review"In Technologies of Life and Death Kelly Oliver addresses some of the most intractable ethical issues of our day. The relevance of continental philosophy in general and of Derridean deconstruction in particular has rarely been demonstrated with such lucidity." -- -Robert Bernasconi Penn State University "In this creative, fascinating, witty, and remarkably fearless book, Oliver takes on the most important questions of human existence (including the meaning of birth and death and the limits of the human) and reframes them for us in thought-provoking ways." -- -Elissa Marder Emory University

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Book SynopsisLooks at gender and queer theories through lenses that are simultaneously retrospective and anticipatory, "American" and "French".Trade Review"Berger's work spans two academic idioms and cultures-that of the United States on the one hand, and of France on the other-to examine the conceptual, performative, indeed theatrical work produced by the examination of gender. From a consideration of how gender produces all sorts of translational conundra, to how the theoretical apparatus for gender analysis is borrowed from one continent, developed in another, and then shuttles back and forth, she discusses how the forms of resignification that take place constitute the ground of queer critique and its relation to gender, identity, and non-binary, and non-identitarian thinking. Thinking through "gender" and "sexual difference" and understanding the possibilities ascribed to these traveling terms allows Berger also to consider the production and reproduction of difference in relation to the history of feminist and queer link to the advance of capital. Through a brilliant final chapter on prostitution or sex work, she questions the manner in which feminist and queer critiques embody a contradictory relationship to capitalist development even as they espouse a Marxist critique. She does not dwell on contradiction for the sake of it, but rather considers it as a lesson about the frames that break apart potentially under the pressure of current thinking around gender, sexual difference, and queer theory. The book is both intellectually stimulating and thoroughly teachable." -- -Ranjana Khanna Duke University "Even the most practiced readers of queer theory and feminist theory-perhaps especially those readers-will find that The Queer Turn in Feminism takes them into unexpected and exhilarating critical terrain. By staging the numerous critical encounters between "French theory" and "American theory" that continue into the present, by offering readings that are as theoretically nuanced as they are rhetorically engaging, Anne Berger reinvigorates old debates in order to open up crucial questions still to be addressed." -- -Elizabeth Weed Brown University "The scholarship of the book is a treat, as is the care with which Berger attends to distinctions or crafts a sentence." -- -E.S. Burt University of California, Irvine "Brilliantly exploring the paradoxes of an American feminism inspired and invigorated by French theory and a French etudes du genre stimulated by American queer theory, Anne Berger offers a fascinating romp through the vicissitudes of feminist and post-feminist ideas, performance studies, and identity politics on both sides of the Atlantic, shrewdly articulating the differences as she explores the translatability of progressive ideas." -- -Jonathan Culler Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Parabasis (Before the Act) 2. Queens and Queers: The Theater of Gender in "America" 3. Paradoxes of Visibility in / and Contemporary Identity Politics 4. The Ends of an Idiom, or Sexual Difference in Translation 5. Roxana's Legacy: Feminism and Capitalism in the West Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1 Psyche and Creation: Initial Reflections on Orthodox Theology and Depth Psychology | 19 2 “That Which Is Not Assumed Is Not Healed” | 40 3 An Ontology of Healing? | 78 4 Eros: Healing Fire | 105 Conclusion | 149 Acknowledgments | 155 Notes | 157 Bibliography | 201 Index | 211

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsChapter 1 Diagnosis: news Chapter2 Surgery: measure Chapter 3 Chemotherapy: feelings Chapter4 Radiation: story coda Called Back: the voyage out Afterword to the 2021 Edition

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword | vii Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners | 1 Notes & | 81

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Book SynopsisExploring nationalism and gender in the context of modern Japan, this text combines field research with an examination of the documents produced at various levels of society. It provides a look at the women as national subjects through the critical chapters of Japanese modernity and postmodernity.

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