Feminism and feminist theory Books
Duke University Press Empowered
Book SynopsisDrawing on numerous examples from popular culture, Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the relationship between popular feminism and popular misogyny as it plays out in advertising, online and multi-media platforms, and nonprofit and commercial campaigns, showing how feminism is often met with a backlash of harassment, assault, and institutional neglect.Trade Review"Empowered adroitly examines the context in which popular feminism is transformed into hateful and misogynistic rage." -- Elisabeth Woronzoff * Popmatters *"Sarah Banet-Weiser offers an informative and readable account of popular feminism and popular misogynistic reactions to it. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- M. Morrissey * Choice *"Empowered offers an extremely timely and critical perspective toward understanding the current topology of feminism and misogyny in popular US culture and can benefit a wide range of readers. With its various tangible examples to illuminate the theorization of popular feminism and misogyny, general readers who don’t have prior knowledge on feminist research could enjoy reading it." -- Dasol Kim * International Journal of Communication *"Empowered presents insightful as well as bold arguments on the current status of popular feminism and its networked natures with popular misogyny." -- Younghan Cho * International Journal of Communication *"Banet-Weiser’s engaging and clear prose, alongside her use of many contemporary examples from a number of cultural contexts, make the book accessible enough for advanced undergraduate or graduate students while still offering cogent and theoretically grounded argumentation to scholars." -- Laura L. Beadling * Journal of American Culture *"Empowered is a crucial and much needed contribution to the debate around contemporary popular feminism and misogyny. In not shying away from exposing both the neoliberal influences of popular feminism, and from investigating the conflictual but nevertheless close entanglements between popular feminist and misogynist thought, Banet-Weiser provides an important keystone towards the reinvention of feminism as a radical and intersectional political project in the contemporary era." -- Hannah Mueller * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *"Empowered is elegant, compelling, and provides an incisive critique of our times—a zeitgeist characterized in equal parts through inspired momentum on matters of gender justice and, simultaneously, met with vitriolic resistance at almost every turn. Empowered theorizes a significant relationship between popular feminism and popular misogyny; it also illuminates how Millennial and Gen Z generations arrive at mediated understandings of feminism." -- Michelle Flood * Feminist Media Studies *“In Empowered, Sarah Banet-Weiser develops a framework for understanding the dynamics between what she calls ‘popular feminism and popular misogyny.’ Banet-Weiser signals that to understand popular feminism, we must explore it through its relationship with the other side of the coin: that is, misogyny…. [Empowered is] interesting, well crafted, and well written.” -- Ea Høg Utoft * Signs *“Taking seriously popular feminism and popular misogyny as sites of struggle, Banet-Weiser deftly addresses the increased popularity of feminism in the contemporary moment and the virulent backlash of misogyny situating both within a corporate, capitalist economy of visibility.” -- Jeremiah Favara * Women's Studies International Forum *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. The Funhouse Mirror 41 2. Shame: Love Yourself and Be Humiliated 65 3. Confidence: The Con Game 92 4. Competence: Girls Who Code and Boys Who Hate Them 129 Conclusion: Rage 171 Notes 187 References 193 Index 211
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Duke University Press The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery
Book SynopsisAlys Eve Weinbaum investigates the continuing resonances of Atlantic slavery in the cultures and politics of human reproduction that characterize contemporary capitalism, showing how black feminist thought offers the best means through which to understand the myriad ways slavery continues to haunt the present.Trade Review"Weinbaum's book is both a contribution to a rich Black feminist theoretical archive on reproductive politics and a celebration of work by Black feminist scholars—particularly Black feminist legal scholars, including Dorothy Roberts and Anita Allen—who have long considered the intersections of surrogacy, slavery, and logics of property.… Weisenbaum's original and incisive text gives us new tools to think about reproductive freedom and reminds us that any idea of reproductive freedom requires Black feminist theoretical innovation and imagination." -- Jennifer C. Nash * Modern Language Quarterly *"Ultimately, The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery does not disappoint. It does the job of demonstrating the complex connections between the gendered and racialised reproductive exploitation and extraction during the historical Atlantic slave trade period and today exceedingly well." -- Gina Marie Longo * Feminist Encounters *"The book offers much-needed critical perspectives on the racializing processes at the center of reproductive labor and commodification. . . . Ulitmately, Weinbaum's analysis shows the importance of thinking historically and offers insights into the ways in which gendered, racialized, and sexualized forms of oppression that have roots in slavery continue to motivate biocapitalism today." -- Daisy Deomampo * Catalyst *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Human Reproduction and the Slave Episteme 1 1. The Surrogacy/Slavery Nexus 29 2. Black Feminism as a Philosophy of History 61 3. Violent Insurgency, or "Power to the Ice Pick" 88 4. The Problem of Reproductive Freedom in Neoliberalism 111 5. A Slave Narrative for Postracial Times 147 Epilogue. The End of Men and the Black Womb of the World 177 Notes 187 Bibliography 243 Index 275
£76.50
Duke University Press The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery
Book SynopsisIn The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery Alys Eve Weinbaum investigates the continuing resonances of Atlantic slavery in the cultures and politics of human reproduction that characterize contemporary biocapitalism. As a form of racial capitalism that relies on the commodification of the human reproductive body, biocapitalism is dependent upon what Weinbaum calls the slave episteme—the racial logic that drove four centuries of slave breeding in the Americas and Caribbean. Weinbaum outlines how the slave episteme shapes the practice of reproduction today, especially through use of biotechnology and surrogacy. Engaging with a broad set of texts, from Toni Morrison''s Beloved and Octavia Butler''s dystopian speculative fictionto black Marxism, histories of slavery, and legal cases involving surrogacy, Weinbaum shows how black feminist contributions from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s constitute a powerful philosophy of history—one that provides the means throughTrade Review"Weinbaum's book is both a contribution to a rich Black feminist theoretical archive on reproductive politics and a celebration of work by Black feminist scholars—particularly Black feminist legal scholars, including Dorothy Roberts and Anita Allen—who have long considered the intersections of surrogacy, slavery, and logics of property.… Weisenbaum's original and incisive text gives us new tools to think about reproductive freedom and reminds us that any idea of reproductive freedom requires Black feminist theoretical innovation and imagination." -- Jennifer C. Nash * Modern Language Quarterly *"Ultimately, The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery does not disappoint. It does the job of demonstrating the complex connections between the gendered and racialised reproductive exploitation and extraction during the historical Atlantic slave trade period and today exceedingly well." -- Gina Marie Longo * Feminist Encounters *"The book offers much-needed critical perspectives on the racializing processes at the center of reproductive labor and commodification. . . . Ulitmately, Weinbaum's analysis shows the importance of thinking historically and offers insights into the ways in which gendered, racialized, and sexualized forms of oppression that have roots in slavery continue to motivate biocapitalism today." -- Daisy Deomampo * Catalyst *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Human Reproduction and the Slave Episteme 1 1. The Surrogacy/Slavery Nexus 29 2. Black Feminism as a Philosophy of History 61 3. Violent Insurgency, or "Power to the Ice Pick" 88 4. The Problem of Reproductive Freedom in Neoliberalism 111 5. A Slave Narrative for Postracial Times 147 Epilogue. The End of Men and the Black Womb of the World 177 Notes 187 Bibliography 243 Index 275
£25.19
Duke University Press How to Make Art at the End of the World
Book SynopsisNatalie Loveless examines the institutionalization of artistic research-creation—a scholarly activity that considers art practices as research methods in their own right—and its significance to North American higher education.Trade Review“In this beautifully argued, eminently readable book, stories are the center of attention. Morphing art and knowledge in the neoliberal university situates thinking and pedagogy. Curiosity-driven transdisciplinary practice is both motor and object of analysis. Natalie Loveless asks how stories craft worlds in politically and sensually attuned modes. I treasure the extensive knowledge of modernist performance art and art activism broadly, as well as rich semiotic and psychoanalytic readings of stories and performance. This book is itself a loving act of research-creation.” -- Donna J. Haraway, author of * Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene *“In her evocative book How to Make Art at the End of the World, Natalie Loveless has captured the most urgent and far-reaching question concerning our cultural environment, that is, how to inhabit it in an era of geopolitical uncertainty. This is a daunting task; her ambitious answer, grounded in examples of alternative critical pedagogies, aims to reduce the toxic colonial footprint in arts education by developing a sustainable research-creation model based on differential multiplicities. And that gives us hope.” -- Mary Kelly, Judge Widney Professor, USC Roski School of Art and Design“In this succinct book, Natalie Loveless explores the claim that art-making practices are well situated to challenge and change existing knowledge-making practices in the contemporary research university…. Her primary audience, researchers in art and fine art, will find the manifesto gives a sophisticated form to an emerging desire—an eros and 'attunement'—to not just study the world, but to have an impact on it.” -- David Theodore * RACAR * “A necessary read for artists and scholars who are drawn to, or already working with, artistically driven methods of teaching and researching.... Through the text, readers will gain a deeper understanding of how research-creation, beyond doing artistic research, is about creatively intervening in feminist and anti-racist research practices.” -- Jo Billows and Stephanie Springgay * Journal for Artistic Research *
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Duke University Press Dub
Book SynopsisThe concluding volume in a poetic triptych, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a catalog of possible methods for remembering, healing, listening, and living otherwise.Trade Review“Grounded in oríkì-like references to Sylvia Wynter’s oeuvre, Dub simultaneously contracts and expands to create a new form of proprioception, which allows us as a species, phantomed by the corrosive and lacerating actions of history, to locate ourselves in relation to other species, as well as within the time-space continuum of the yet to be, the now and the ‘past.’ Part prayer, oration, exhortation, commentary and story, Dub amplifies ancestral voices to become mythopoesis in the making.” -- M. NourbeSe Philip, author of * Zong! *“Offering a sweeping, thoughtful, and exquisite meditation on Sylvia Wynter's work, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's poetic engagement represents a new and unique way of encountering and paying homage to Black feminist theory and Black feminist theorists. A beautiful and graceful text, Dub will inspire readers to return to and to rethink Wynter's work and her place within African Diaspora studies, Caribbean studies, and Black feminist studies.” -- Lisa B. Thompson, author of * Single Black Female *"Breath is an important theme in Dub. As is gratitude in the face of environmental decline. Because our ancestors navigated so intimately through change, Gumbs sets out to prove, so can we. . . . [An] exquisitely rendered love letter. . . ." -- Ashia Ajani * Sierra *"People throw around terms like Genius and Magic frequently but if you open this book, flip to any passage, and don’t feel moved from your soul then I will assume that you don’t have one. 5 Stars aren't enough for this sacred text but it's all we got so . . . ." -- Adrien Julious * Authentically Adrien blog *"I am so grateful that Alexis Pauline Gumbs listens to Black women writers and scholars the way that she does. . . . Dub is a book of our now. As tends to be the case with the books that Gumbs summons, the timing of Dub is prescient. With our breathless global attention set to registering the various way a virus connects all life forms, I cannot think of a better time for a book that tarries with and makes ceremony with Sylvia Wynter." -- Tiffany Lethabo King * Antipode *"[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 *“Both a gathering and a recovery, this last pivotal volume in a trilogy commits to a new poetics. . . . Dub wakes us concussively. Both wrenching and playful, it offers instructions (two sets of them), warnings, and its central bid to listen to the undrowned.” -- Susan McCabe * Los Angeles Review of Books *Table of ContentsA Note ix Request 1 Commitment 3 Instructions 5 Opening 7 Whale Chorus 15 Remembering 21 Nunánuk 34 Boda 40 Anguilla 47 Another Set of Instructions 66 Red August 74 Relation 92 Prophet 94 And 110 Skin 114 Losing it All 120 It's Your Father 126 Edict 145 Edgegrove 153 Unlearning Herself 163 Birth Chorus 177 Conditions 194 Jamaica 199 Blood Chorus 202 Shop 214 Orchard 220 Cycle 227 Saving the Planet 231 Staying 239 Letting Go 246 Acknowledgments 253 Notes 261 Crate Dig 273
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Duke University Press What Comes after Entanglement
Book SynopsisEva Haifa Giraud contends that recent theory that foregrounds the ways that human existence is entangled with other nonhuman life and the natural world often undermine successful action and calls for new modes of activist organizing and theoretical critique.Trade Review“What Comes after Entanglement? is an exciting and novel book. It is unique in its combination of innovative theoretical explorations of activism and social change with suggestions for practical political interventions. Crucially, Eva Haifa Giraud explores the messy practicalities of activism. The findings and significance of her book go far beyond the case study focus on a broad variety of animal activism since the 1980s, which weaves together different times and places in really interesting ways.” -- Jenny Pickerill, author of * Cyberprotest: Environmental Activism Online *“Eva Haifa Giraud does not accept relationality theory without question. The force of her work is her seeing theory as in need of a thinking-through that does not simply apply it to situations, but instead sees the situated work of activism as rendering our notion of theory and relationality in a more nuanced fashion. I don't know of any other text that follows through on the activist potentials in the theories Giraud draws from as much as this one does. An impressive work.” -- Claire Colebrook, author of * Death of the PostHuman: Essays on Extinction *“When reading this stimulating text, I wished that I could have joined Giraud in kitchen table discussions as she wrestled with this wealth of material. Overall, this is a really well-structured text which builds its argument iteratively and holds in tension the productive ambivalence that Giraud illuminates.” -- Joan Haran * BioSocieties *“Eva Haifa Giraud’s book, What Comes after Entanglement?, offers what she calls a ‘sympathetic critique’ of ‘more than human, relational ethics.’ This critique is aimed at the new materialisms and the broader turn to relational ontology…. Giraud’s emphasis on the ethics of exclusion is something to which scholars of many kinds might well attend.” -- Samuel Diener * Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *“Eva Haifa Giraud’s book is an important contribution to recent moves within environmental political theory to expand environmental politics to the more-than-human. In particular, it addresses relevant questions of politics in non-anthropocentric environmental theory…. The book will be valuable to scholars of science and technology studies, ecofeminism, new materialism, media and communication studies, and related fields. Scholars focusing on environmental activism and campaigning will find Giraud’s attention to the conceptual significance of everyday practical problems inspiring, specifically the way she teases out some of the barriers to translating theory into practice and the context-specific tactics for negotiating these barriers.” -- Magdalena S. Rodekirchen * Environmental Politics *“What Comes After Entanglement? offers media scholars an insightful analysis of what materialist theory is doing on the ground and helps to clarify the stakes of posthumanism, for human and nonhuman animals alike.... Giraud is a well-balanced critic who pays attention to representation and infrastructure, theory and practice.” -- Cynthia Rosenfeld * Critical Studies in Media Communication *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Articulations 21 2. Uneven Burdens of Risk 46 3. Performing Responsibility 69 4. Hierarchies of Care 98 5. Charismatic Suffering 118 6. Ambivalent Popularity 142 Conclusion: An Ethics of Exclusion 171 Notes 183 Bibliography 225 Index 241
£72.25
Duke University Press The Play in the System
Book SynopsisAcknowledging the difficulty for artists in the twenty-first century to effectively critique systems of power, Anna Watkins Fisher theorizes parasitism—a form of resistance in which artists comply with dominant structures as a tool for practicing resistance from within.Trade Review“Anna Watkins Fisher's figure of the parasite offers us insight into the contemporary condition in which, due to ubiquitous appropriation and financialization, every oppositional gesture seems to have already been co-opted in advance. Her explorations illuminate the space in which artists and others are forced to operate today and outline ways in which it may still be possible, albeit quite ambiguously, to maneuver, resist, and express opposition.” -- Steven Shaviro, author of * The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism *“Brilliant and provocative, The Play in the System explores the question: what subversive possibilities might a complicit subject—the parasite—hold? In the era of constant co-optation and coercive hospitality, the citizen is increasingly framed as a parasite. Rather than simply condemn this situation, Anna Watkins Fisher bridges new media and performance studies to understand how parasitical tactics, from hacking Amazon previews to harassing patriarchy, operate as subliminal dissent. This book, however, does not glorify the parasite: it profoundly deals with its limitations and possibilities—its dangerous voraciousness and its refusal to respect boundaries.” -- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, author of * Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media *“Fisher’s book reminds us unequivocally that insidious structures of racist, patriarchal, and exploitive neoliberal and corporate systems in which we are enmeshed (and even now, are laboring to uphold to survive within them) are porous and also potentially indestructible....” -- Nora Almeida * College and Research Libraries *“The Play in the System...is highly recommended for academic libraries supporting curricula engaged with critical visual studies, culture and media studies, performance studies, gender and women’s studies, and contemporary art.” -- Andrew Wang * ARLIS/NA Reviews *“The first half of [The Play in the System] is easy to love. It builds portable theories and applies them to a wide range of materials. . . . In the book’s second half, . . . [Fielder] deals frankly with her own shifting judgements and feelings—never more so than in the book’s bravura chapter on intergenerational conflict in feminist performance art.” -- Christopher Grobe * Performance Research *“The Play in the System is an expertly crafted and widely accessible publication that bridges disciplines with masterful detail and precision. . . . The Play in the System differs from related literature by centering the practitioners as parasites to their respective institutions, and by privileging individual and collective acts of resistance over more generalized institutional critique.” -- Camille Intson * TDR: The Drama Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction. Toward a Theory of Parasitical Resistance Interlude. Thresholds of Accommodation Part I. Redistribution: Institutional Interventions 1. User Be Used: Leveraging the Coercive Hospitality of Corporate Platforms 2. An Opening Structure: Núria Güell and Kenneth Pietrobono's Legal Loopholes Part II. Imposition: Intimate Interventions 3. Hangers-On: Chris Kraus's Parasitical Feminism 4. A Seat at the Table: Feminist Performance Art's Institutional Absorption and Parasitical Legacies Coda. It's Not You, It's Me: Roisin Byrne and the Parasite's Shifting Ethics and Politics Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£98.60
Duke University Press The Play in the System
Book SynopsisAcknowledging the difficulty for artists in the twenty-first century to effectively critique systems of power, Anna Watkins Fisher theorizes parasitism—a form of resistance in which artists comply with dominant structures as a tool for practicing resistance from within.Trade Review“Anna Watkins Fisher's figure of the parasite offers us insight into the contemporary condition in which, due to ubiquitous appropriation and financialization, every oppositional gesture seems to have already been co-opted in advance. Her explorations illuminate the space in which artists and others are forced to operate today and outline ways in which it may still be possible, albeit quite ambiguously, to maneuver, resist, and express opposition.” -- Steven Shaviro, author of * The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism *“Brilliant and provocative, The Play in the System explores the question: what subversive possibilities might a complicit subject—the parasite—hold? In the era of constant co-optation and coercive hospitality, the citizen is increasingly framed as a parasite. Rather than simply condemn this situation, Anna Watkins Fisher bridges new media and performance studies to understand how parasitical tactics, from hacking Amazon previews to harassing patriarchy, operate as subliminal dissent. This book, however, does not glorify the parasite: it profoundly deals with its limitations and possibilities—its dangerous voraciousness and its refusal to respect boundaries.” -- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, author of * Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media *“Fisher’s book reminds us unequivocally that insidious structures of racist, patriarchal, and exploitive neoliberal and corporate systems in which we are enmeshed (and even now, are laboring to uphold to survive within them) are porous and also potentially indestructible....” -- Nora Almeida * College and Research Libraries *“The Play in the System...is highly recommended for academic libraries supporting curricula engaged with critical visual studies, culture and media studies, performance studies, gender and women’s studies, and contemporary art.” -- Andrew Wang * ARLIS/NA Reviews *“The first half of [The Play in the System] is easy to love. It builds portable theories and applies them to a wide range of materials. . . . In the book’s second half, . . . [Fielder] deals frankly with her own shifting judgements and feelings—never more so than in the book’s bravura chapter on intergenerational conflict in feminist performance art.” -- Christopher Grobe * Performance Research *“The Play in the System is an expertly crafted and widely accessible publication that bridges disciplines with masterful detail and precision. . . . The Play in the System differs from related literature by centering the practitioners as parasites to their respective institutions, and by privileging individual and collective acts of resistance over more generalized institutional critique.” -- Camille Intson * TDR: The Drama Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction. Toward a Theory of Parasitical Resistance Interlude. Thresholds of Accommodation Part I. Redistribution: Institutional Interventions 1. User Be Used: Leveraging the Coercive Hospitality of Corporate Platforms 2. An Opening Structure: Núria Güell and Kenneth Pietrobono's Legal Loopholes Part II. Imposition: Intimate Interventions 3. Hangers-On: Chris Kraus's Parasitical Feminism 4. A Seat at the Table: Feminist Performance Art's Institutional Absorption and Parasitical Legacies Coda. It's Not You, It's Me: Roisin Byrne and the Parasite's Shifting Ethics and Politics Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
Duke University Press Revisiting Womens Cinema
Book SynopsisIn Revisiting Women’s Cinema, Lingzhen Wang ponders the roots of contemporary feminist stagnation and the limits of both commercial mainstream and elite minor cultures by turning to socialist women filmmakers in modern China. She foregrounds their sociopolitical engagements, critical interventions, and popular artistic experiments, offering a new conception of socialist and postsocialist feminisms, mainstream culture, and women’s cinema. Wang highlights the films of Wang Ping and Dong Kena in the 1950s and 1960s and Zhang Nuanxin and Huang Shuqin in the 1980s and 1990s to unveil how they have been profoundly misread through extant research paradigms entrenched in Western Cold War ideology, post-second-wave cultural feminism, and post-Mao intellectual discourses. Challenging received interpretations, she elucidates how socialist feminism and culture were conceptualized and practiced in relation to China’s search not only for national independence and economic deTrade Review“Insisting we hear, listen, and see the voices and actions of women filmmakers in China, Lingzhen Wang provides a nuanced examination of women's cinema and feminism that attends to national and transnational trajectories. She develops theoretically sophisticated and politically incisive critiques of how dominant frameworks in socialist China and throughout the world configured the realms of possibility for making, seeing, and recognizing socialist and Chinese women's mainstream film. An exciting, innovative, and theoretically rich project.” -- Tina Mai Chen, coeditor of * Film, History, and Cultural Citizenship: Sites of Production *“Lingzhen Wang is the first Chinese scholar writing in English to point out the eerie parallels between post-Mao feminism and post-second-wave Anglo-European feminism as she negotiates the political legacies of two cultures, illuminating the traditions of the one for the other. Revisiting Women's Cinema is likely to rock the history of world cinema and inspire a resurgence of interest in the project of globalizing feminist film and media theory. I can think of no other book on feminism and motion picture film history that is more important to the field than this one.” -- Jane Gaines, Professor of Film, Columbia University"Revisiting Women’s Cinema is a rich and thought-provoking revisionist account of Chinese women’s cinema. . . . In addition to reinvigorating feminist theory, the book opens up new avenues for exploring the interaction of the political and the aesthetic, the mainstream and the experimental in Chinese cinema." -- Xiaoning Lu * The China Quarterly *
£75.65
Duke University Press Sensory Experiments
Book SynopsisErica Fretwell examines how psychophysics—a nineteenth-century scientific movement originating in Germany dedicated to the empirical study of sensory experience—became central to the process of creating human difference along the lines of race, gender, and ability in nineteenth-century America.Trade Review“With precision, writerly grace, and great analytic power, Erica Fretwell uses the backstory of psychophysics to map out the contradictory ways feeling subjects came to be thought in the nineteenth century. This is a uniquely strong book, anchored in exacting historical, theoretical, and exegetical scholarship. It stands to make a powerful intervention into nineteenth-century literary studies and especially into science studies, critical race studies, and biopolitical critique.” -- Peter Coviello, author of * Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism *“Historicizing the intersections among nineteenth-century conceptions of materiality, race, and aesthetic experience, Erica Fretwell produces a wide-reaching framework for understanding the stakes of sensory experience. The result is a rigorous historical approach to nineteenth-century science and culture that underscores efforts to ‘educate’ or ‘civilize’ the senses. This brilliant, original, and important book will make waves in race studies, sensory studies, American studies, the history of science, and American literature.” -- Hsuan L. Hsu, author of * Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain’s Asia and Comparative Racialization *“In her excellent Sensory Experiments, Erica Fretwell puts forward an insightful thesis informed by an intelligent selection of the literature and a rigorous multi-disciplinary analysis. . . . It should appeal . . . to any reader with an interest in the history of psychology, aesthetics, or U.S. culture in the post-Civil War period.” -- Jorge Castro-Tejerina * Centaurus *“Fretwell hits a sweet spot between science and culture, offering a wide-ranging experimental archive on the aesthetic history of the US. Like any good archive, this work opens a view not only to the past but also forcefully into the future. Anyone interested in the aesthetic dimension of contemporary social life, regardless of its specific context, will benefit from reading the textual experiments Fretwell so deftly performs. Highly recommended.” -- B. G. Chang * Choice *“[Sensory Experiments] is poised to make a significant and lasting intervention across fields. For scholars of sensory studies, affect theory, and American literature, it is deeply important reading.” -- Jake McGinnis * Papers On Language & Literature *“Sensory Experiments points us not only to the ways in which senses served as a substrate for considerations of self and subjectivity for cultural producers in the nineteenth century; it also suggests that we be continually aware—and conscious of, and careful with—our own assessments of contemporary sense and sensation.” -- Michael Rossi * The Senses and Society *“[Fretwell’s] writing is deeply satisfying and provocative. . . . Fretwell deftly navigates a shocking variety of source types and between the disciplines of literature studies, cultural and intellectual history, and sensory studies with ease. SensoryExperiments will be an important book for all of these fields and more.” -- Alexandra Huis * Social History Of Medicine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. New Sensation 1 1. Sight: Unreconstructed Body Images 35 Interval 1. Colorful Sounds 79 2. Sound: The Acoustics of Social Harmony 87 Interval 2. Notes on Scent 124 3. Smell: Perfume, Women, and Other Volatile Spirits 131 Interval 3. Olfactory Gusto 167 4. Taste: Scripts for Sweetness, Measures of Pleasure 174 Interval 4. Mouthfeel 213 5. Touch: Life Writing Between Skin and Flesh 221 Coda. Afterlives and Antelives of Feeling 257 Notes 265 Bibliography 298 Index
£98.60
Duke University Press Meat
Book SynopsisWhat is meat? Is it simply food to consume, or a metaphor for our own bodies? Can “bloody” vegan burgers, petri dish beef, live animals, or human milk be categorized as meat? In pursuing these questions, the contributors to Meat! trace the shifting boundaries of the meanings of meat across time, geography, and cultures. In studies of chicken, fish, milk, barbecue, fake meat, animal sacrifice, cannibalism, exotic meat, frozen meat, and other manifestations of meat, they highlight meat''s entanglements with race, gender, sexuality, and disability. From the imperial politics embedded in labeling canned white tuna as “the chicken of the sea” to the relationship between beef bans, yoga, and bodily purity in Hindu nationalist politics, the contributors demonstrate how meat is an ideal vantage point from which to better understand transnational circuits of power and ideology as well as the histories of colonialism, ableism, and sexism. Contributors. Trade Review“Meat is power, meat is politics. By expanding the definitional terrain of the word, the authors in this collection also reimagine the scope of food and animal studies and provide much-needed connective tissue (pun not intended) for future work in the field. This book is a game changer. Period.” -- Sharon Patricia Holland, author of * The Erotic Life of Racism *“A new and provocative engagement with the material and symbolic dimensions of meat within a transnational frame, this collection exfoliates meat's various layers, not to uncover an essential truth, but to examine meat as a dynamic, multiple, and unstable category. It is less about what meat is than it is about what meat does. It is precisely this dimension that renders Meat! an important scholarly advance in cultural studies, food studies, and gender, women, queer, and feminist studies.” -- Martin F. Manalansan IV, coeditor of * Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader *"In provocative and playful essays, diverse authors draw on established experts in such fields as colonial and postcolonial studies, transnational analysis, feminist science studies, queer theory, critical race theory, animal rights studies, and disability studies. . . . Most essays cross boundaries, too, in subject matter, disciplinary orientation, and methodology (such as moving from discursive to practical analysis), requiring proficiency with context-switching, making this both a challenging and rewarding read. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty." -- S. M. Weiss * Choice *“Few books assemble critical writings from a transnational, intersectional, and postcolonial perspective. Meat! fills this gap.... Feminist scholars will no doubt find this edited volume useful and interesting.” -- Élisabeth Abergel * Atlantis *“The uniqueness of Meat! resides in reuniting scholars, many of them working on regions outside the Euro-Western world, in order to provocatively push the boundaries of what ethical practices and lives entail.” -- Valeria Meiller * ISLE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. How to Think with Meat / Sushmita Chatterjee and Banu Subramaniam 1 1. When Fish Is Meat: Transnational Entanglements / Elspeth Probyn 17 2. Eating the Mother / Irina Aristarkhova 39 3. Reindeer and Woolly Mammoths: The Imperial Transit of Frozen Meat from the North American Arctic / Jennifer A. Hamilton 61 4. Beefing Yoga: Meat, Corporeality, and Politics / Sushmita Chatterjee 96 5. Eating after Chernobyl: Slow Violence and Reindeer Consumption in the Postnuclear Age / Anita Mannur 121 6. Romancing the Pig: A Queer Crip Tale from Barbeque to Xenotransplantation / Kim Q. Hall 139 7. On Being Meat: Three Parables on Sacrifice and Violence / Parama Roy 162 8. "I Hide in Plain Sight": Food and Black Masculinity in Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad / Psyche Williams-Forson 194 9. On Phooka: Beef, Milk, and the Framing of Animal Cruelty in Late Colonial Bengal / Neel Ahuja 213 10. Fake Meat: A Queer Commentary / Angela Willey 241 11. The Ethical Impurative: Elemental Frontiers of Technologized Meat / Banu Subramaniam 254 12. Fire and Ash / Mel Y. Chen 279 About the Contributors 293 Index 293
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Duke University Press A Regarded Self
Book SynopsisKaiama L. Glover examines Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean literature whose female protagonists enact practices of freedom that privilege the self, challenge the prioritization of the community over the individual, and refuse masculinist discourses of postcolonial nation building.Trade Review“Kaiama L. Glover's magnificently written A Regarded Self recovers voices long relegated to the margins. It is also a new and thrilling kind of criticism, uncompromising in its resistance to generalities about Afro-Atlantic and Caribbean Studies. Seamlessly joining literary reflection and oral history, it unveils a new understanding of the aesthetic and the political. For once returned to their significant histories in the Caribbean, these magisterial terms gain force and momentum. Glover's unparalleled analyses of Maryse Condé, René Depestre, and Jamaica Kincaid make readers rethink the nature of mastery and subjection, as well as the false divide between sacred and profane.” -- Colin Dayan, author of * Haiti, History, and the Gods *“In this rigorous and elegantly executed book, Kaiama L. Glover performs the disorderly womanness that she theorizes by offering feminist challenges to established Caribbean scholarly practices, tropes, and readings that reinforce masculinist valorizations of ‘community.’ Offering innovative, unconventional perspectives on well-known literary texts, A Regarded Self stands to be an important work.” -- Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, author of * Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders *"Readers should be able to work their ways out of the boxes that define texts and approach them closely from less controlled zones. As such, Glover’s A Regarded Self is a timely and much-needed book, in these times when readers may feel compelled to pay allegiance to the labels and theories in vogue before actually regarding the source book itself." -- Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika * Public Books *“In her groundbreaking new book, A Regarded Self, Kaiama Glover proposes an innovative theoretical framework for reappraising the role of Caribbean women in literature and literary criticism.... This book will appeal to both specialist and general readers, but it is particularly compelling in its enactment of a new way of approaching literature from the region.” -- Bonnie Thomas * L'Esprit Créateur *“Kaiama L. Glover’s A Regarded Self is a thought-provoking and innovative contribution to Caribbean literary criticism as it subversively engages with Caribbean ideological idiosyncrasies and self-reflexively unsettles established academic positions. . . . Its combination of textual and extra-textual analysis provides a comprehensive insight into anglophone and francophone Caribbean literature, culture and scholarship.” -- Isabella Kalte * KULT Online *“A Regarded Self is about disorderly women who endlessly unsettle any given structure. . . . Glover invites us to think through what it would mean to endlessly unsettle ourselves and everything around us.” -- Marietta Kosma * Ideas *“Reading across some of the linguistic barriers within the Caribbean, [Glover] offers a text essential to scholars of Caribbean studies and which may be used to facilitate conversations across the islands (and scholarly departments). Always reading against the grain, always illuminating (the costs of ) our own readerly proclivities, [A Regarded Self] does not disappoint.” -- Jocelyn Sutton Franklin * H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews *“Glover’s writing style remains fun and engaging throughout, her thoughts informative, and her thesis well-plotted. . . . ARegarded Self delivers a compelling analysis of Caribbean women writers and their traditionally unlikeable heroines, devoting itself to intersectionality and avoiding reiterations of previous scholarship.” -- Kieran Leeds * European Journal of American Studies *"A Regarded Self therefore serves as an invaluable example of a study in self-disorientation, in being nimbly reactive and empathetic against the ossifying tendencies of many identity-based politics, while simultaneously opening up a more inclusive discursive space for selfhood that refuses to exclude any desires, no matter how selfish they may seem." -- Jake J. McGuirk * Ariel *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Self-Love | Tituba 39 2. Self-Possession | Hadriana 68 3. Self-Defense | Lotus 111 4. Self-Preservation | Xuela 146 5. Self-Regard | Lilith 188 Epilogue 219 Notes 225 Works Cited 249 Index
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Duke University Press Revisiting Womens Cinema
Book SynopsisIn Revisiting Women’s Cinema, Lingzhen Wang ponders the roots of contemporary feminist stagnation and the limits of both commercial mainstream and elite minor cultures by turning to socialist women filmmakers in modern China. She foregrounds their sociopolitical engagements, critical interventions, and popular artistic experiments, offering a new conception of socialist and postsocialist feminisms, mainstream culture, and women’s cinema. Wang highlights the films of Wang Ping and Dong Kena in the 1950s and 1960s and Zhang Nuanxin and Huang Shuqin in the 1980s and 1990s to unveil how they have been profoundly misread through extant research paradigms entrenched in Western Cold War ideology, post-second-wave cultural feminism, and post-Mao intellectual discourses. Challenging received interpretations, she elucidates how socialist feminism and culture were conceptualized and practiced in relation to China’s search not only for national independence and economic deTrade Review“Insisting we hear, listen, and see the voices and actions of women filmmakers in China, Lingzhen Wang provides a nuanced examination of women's cinema and feminism that attends to national and transnational trajectories. She develops theoretically sophisticated and politically incisive critiques of how dominant frameworks in socialist China and throughout the world configured the realms of possibility for making, seeing, and recognizing socialist and Chinese women's mainstream film. An exciting, innovative, and theoretically rich project.” -- Tina Mai Chen, coeditor of * Film, History, and Cultural Citizenship: Sites of Production *“Lingzhen Wang is the first Chinese scholar writing in English to point out the eerie parallels between post-Mao feminism and post-second-wave Anglo-European feminism as she negotiates the political legacies of two cultures, illuminating the traditions of the one for the other. Revisiting Women's Cinema is likely to rock the history of world cinema and inspire a resurgence of interest in the project of globalizing feminist film and media theory. I can think of no other book on feminism and motion picture film history that is more important to the field than this one.” -- Jane Gaines, Professor of Film, Columbia University"Revisiting Women’s Cinema is a rich and thought-provoking revisionist account of Chinese women’s cinema. . . . In addition to reinvigorating feminist theory, the book opens up new avenues for exploring the interaction of the political and the aesthetic, the mainstream and the experimental in Chinese cinema." -- Xiaoning Lu * The China Quarterly *
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Duke University Press Sensory Experiments
Book SynopsisErica Fretwell examines how psychophysicsa nineteenth-century scientific movement originating in Germany dedicated to the empirical study of sensory experiencebecame central to the process of creating human difference along the lines of race, gender, and ability in nineteenth-century America.Trade Review“With precision, writerly grace, and great analytic power, Erica Fretwell uses the backstory of psychophysics to map out the contradictory ways feeling subjects came to be thought in the nineteenth century. This is a uniquely strong book, anchored in exacting historical, theoretical, and exegetical scholarship. It stands to make a powerful intervention into nineteenth-century literary studies and especially into science studies, critical race studies, and biopolitical critique.” -- Peter Coviello, author of * Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism *“Historicizing the intersections among nineteenth-century conceptions of materiality, race, and aesthetic experience, Erica Fretwell produces a wide-reaching framework for understanding the stakes of sensory experience. The result is a rigorous historical approach to nineteenth-century science and culture that underscores efforts to ‘educate’ or ‘civilize’ the senses. This brilliant, original, and important book will make waves in race studies, sensory studies, American studies, the history of science, and American literature.” -- Hsuan L. Hsu, author of * Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain’s Asia and Comparative Racialization *“In her excellent Sensory Experiments, Erica Fretwell puts forward an insightful thesis informed by an intelligent selection of the literature and a rigorous multi-disciplinary analysis. . . . It should appeal . . . to any reader with an interest in the history of psychology, aesthetics, or U.S. culture in the post-Civil War period.” -- Jorge Castro-Tejerina * Centaurus *“Fretwell hits a sweet spot between science and culture, offering a wide-ranging experimental archive on the aesthetic history of the US. Like any good archive, this work opens a view not only to the past but also forcefully into the future. Anyone interested in the aesthetic dimension of contemporary social life, regardless of its specific context, will benefit from reading the textual experiments Fretwell so deftly performs. Highly recommended.” -- B. G. Chang * Choice *“[Sensory Experiments] is poised to make a significant and lasting intervention across fields. For scholars of sensory studies, affect theory, and American literature, it is deeply important reading.” -- Jake McGinnis * Papers On Language & Literature *“Sensory Experiments points us not only to the ways in which senses served as a substrate for considerations of self and subjectivity for cultural producers in the nineteenth century; it also suggests that we be continually aware—and conscious of, and careful with—our own assessments of contemporary sense and sensation.” -- Michael Rossi * The Senses and Society *“[Fretwell’s] writing is deeply satisfying and provocative. . . . Fretwell deftly navigates a shocking variety of source types and between the disciplines of literature studies, cultural and intellectual history, and sensory studies with ease. SensoryExperiments will be an important book for all of these fields and more.” -- Alexandra Huis * Social History Of Medicine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. New Sensation 1 1. Sight: Unreconstructed Body Images 35 Interval 1. Colorful Sounds 79 2. Sound: The Acoustics of Social Harmony 87 Interval 2. Notes on Scent 124 3. Smell: Perfume, Women, and Other Volatile Spirits 131 Interval 3. Olfactory Gusto 167 4. Taste: Scripts for Sweetness, Measures of Pleasure 174 Interval 4. Mouthfeel 213 5. Touch: Life Writing Between Skin and Flesh 221 Coda. Afterlives and Antelives of Feeling 257 Notes 265 Bibliography 298 Index
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Duke University Press Meat
Book SynopsisWhat is meat? Is it simply food to consume, or a metaphor for our own bodies? Can “bloody” vegan burgers, petri dish beef, live animals, or human milk be categorized as meat? In pursuing these questions, the contributors to Meat! trace the shifting boundaries of the meanings of meat across time, geography, and cultures. In studies of chicken, fish, milk, barbecue, fake meat, animal sacrifice, cannibalism, exotic meat, frozen meat, and other manifestations of meat, they highlight meat''s entanglements with race, gender, sexuality, and disability. From the imperial politics embedded in labeling canned white tuna as “the chicken of the sea” to the relationship between beef bans, yoga, and bodily purity in Hindu nationalist politics, the contributors demonstrate how meat is an ideal vantage point from which to better understand transnational circuits of power and ideology as well as the histories of colonialism, ableism, and sexism. Contributors. Trade Review“Meat is power, meat is politics. By expanding the definitional terrain of the word, the authors in this collection also reimagine the scope of food and animal studies and provide much-needed connective tissue (pun not intended) for future work in the field. This book is a game changer. Period.” -- Sharon Patricia Holland, author of * The Erotic Life of Racism *“A new and provocative engagement with the material and symbolic dimensions of meat within a transnational frame, this collection exfoliates meat's various layers, not to uncover an essential truth, but to examine meat as a dynamic, multiple, and unstable category. It is less about what meat is than it is about what meat does. It is precisely this dimension that renders Meat! an important scholarly advance in cultural studies, food studies, and gender, women, queer, and feminist studies.” -- Martin F. Manalansan IV, coeditor of * Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader *"In provocative and playful essays, diverse authors draw on established experts in such fields as colonial and postcolonial studies, transnational analysis, feminist science studies, queer theory, critical race theory, animal rights studies, and disability studies. . . . Most essays cross boundaries, too, in subject matter, disciplinary orientation, and methodology (such as moving from discursive to practical analysis), requiring proficiency with context-switching, making this both a challenging and rewarding read. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty." -- S. M. Weiss * Choice *“Few books assemble critical writings from a transnational, intersectional, and postcolonial perspective. Meat! fills this gap.... Feminist scholars will no doubt find this edited volume useful and interesting.” -- Élisabeth Abergel * Atlantis *“The uniqueness of Meat! resides in reuniting scholars, many of them working on regions outside the Euro-Western world, in order to provocatively push the boundaries of what ethical practices and lives entail.” -- Valeria Meiller * ISLE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. How to Think with Meat / Sushmita Chatterjee and Banu Subramaniam 1 1. When Fish Is Meat: Transnational Entanglements / Elspeth Probyn 17 2. Eating the Mother / Irina Aristarkhova 39 3. Reindeer and Woolly Mammoths: The Imperial Transit of Frozen Meat from the North American Arctic / Jennifer A. Hamilton 61 4. Beefing Yoga: Meat, Corporeality, and Politics / Sushmita Chatterjee 96 5. Eating after Chernobyl: Slow Violence and Reindeer Consumption in the Postnuclear Age / Anita Mannur 121 6. Romancing the Pig: A Queer Crip Tale from Barbeque to Xenotransplantation / Kim Q. Hall 139 7. On Being Meat: Three Parables on Sacrifice and Violence / Parama Roy 162 8. "I Hide in Plain Sight": Food and Black Masculinity in Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad / Psyche Williams-Forson 194 9. On Phooka: Beef, Milk, and the Framing of Animal Cruelty in Late Colonial Bengal / Neel Ahuja 213 10. Fake Meat: A Queer Commentary / Angela Willey 241 11. The Ethical Impurative: Elemental Frontiers of Technologized Meat / Banu Subramaniam 254 12. Fire and Ash / Mel Y. Chen 279 About the Contributors 293 Index 293
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Duke University Press The Work of Rape
Book SynopsisRana M. Jaleel links international law's redefinition of mass rape as a crime against humanity to the expansion of US imperialism and its effacement of racialized violence and dispossession.Trade Review“Imaginative and deeply ambitious, The Work of Rape upends conventional thinking. Traversing a vast terrain, Rana M. Jaleel insists we turn from how rape has been problematically framed through various feminist legal efforts so we may reconceptualize its relation to racial and colonial world orderings of life. A brilliant and convincing book.” -- Leti Volpp, Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley“Rana M. Jaleel presents an eye-opening and mesmerizing global account of the contexts, significations, and meanings that rape as a juridical offense and cultural term has undergone from the 1990s to the present. She boldly intervenes into current discussions about rectifying the pervasiveness of societal sexual violence that has been reignited by movements like #TimesUp and #MeToo. One walks away from this book with new clarity about the substantive differences and stakes among women of color, Indigenous, queer, and radical feminist frameworks for understanding sexual violence and for acting against it. This is the book I’ve wanted for these times.” -- Chandan Reddy, author of * Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State *"The Work of Rape is a challenging text, but one that asks us to think deeply and seriously about feminist and queer theory, sexual violence, racialization, and the politics of rape." -- Sameena Mulla * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Work of Rape 1 1. The US Sex Wars Meet the Ethnic Wars 49 2. States of War, Men as State: The Tortured Americas, Genocidal Balkans, and the Sexual State Form 88 3. My Own Private Genocide: From Ethnic War to the War on Terror 110 4. Two Title IXs: Empire and the Transnational Production of "Welcomeness" on Campus 142 Epilogue. Decolonial and Abolitionist Feminisms and the Work of Rape 174 Notes 187 Bibliography 229 Index 255
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Duke University Press How Do We Look
Book SynopsisIn How Do We Look? Fatimah Tobing Rony draws on transnational images of Indonesian women as a way to theorize what she calls visual biopolitics—the ways visual representation determines which lives are made to matter more than others. Rony outlines the mechanisms of visual biopolitics by examining Paul Gauguin’s 1893 portrait of Annah la Javanaise—a trafficked thirteen-year-old girl found wandering the streets of Paris—as well as US ethnographic and documentary films. In each instance, the figure of the Indonesian woman is inextricably tied to discourses of primitivism, savagery, colonialism, exoticism, and genocide. Rony also focuses on acts of resistance to visual biopolitics in film, writing, and photography. These works, such as Rachmi Diyah Larasati’s The Dance that Makes You Vanish, Vincent Monnikendam’s Mother Dao (1995), and the collaborative films of Nia Dinata, challenge the naturalized methods of seeing that justify exTrade Review“Fatimah Tobing Rony's passionate appeal for a different kind of filmmaking that might interrupt the representational violence of what she calls visual biopolitics animates every page of this innovative and important book. Building a powerful argument about how habitual ways of seeing and not seeing are produced, reproduced, and resisted via visual media, Rony makes a welcome and original contribution to both film studies and Southeast Asian studies.” -- Karen Strassler, author of * Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia *“Fatimah Tobing Rony traces a fascinating visual archive across time, media, and sites of power, drawing out chilling resonances among primary media texts with great erudition, critical force, and lyricism. No other author is a sophisticated art historian, critical ethnographer, postcolonial feminist theorist, and filmmaker all in one. This powerful and remarkable book positions Rony as a brilliant and essential cultural voice.” -- Patricia White, author of * Women’s Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ixTongue 1 Introduction. How Do We Look? 3The Peonies 24 1. Annah la Javanaise 27Under the Tree 70 2. The Still Dancer 72The Dressing Down 108 3. Mother Dao 110Flight 147 4. Nia Dinata 148 Conclusion. The Fourth Eye 187 Notes 191 Bibliography 213 Index 225
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Duke University Press Transnational Feminist Itineraries
Book SynopsisTransnational Feminist Itineraries demonstrates the key contributions of transnational feminist theory and practice to analyzing and contesting authoritarian nationalism and the extension of global corporate power.Trade Review“This thoughtful and measured volume carefully addresses long-standing tensions in feminist theorizing and activism between transnational practices and intersectionality in new and stimulating ways, identifying the many congruent avenues of inquiry and methodologies they share. Bringing together perspectives from the United States and the Global South, it provides a robust critique of the legacies of racism and colonialism.” -- Caren Kaplan, author of * Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above *“This innovative collection charts clear paths toward a renewed and reinvigorated transnational feminist theory and practice, offering fresh empirical materials and indispensable theoretical tools for navigating today’s turbulent global political waters. Adjudicating the manifest tensions among postcolonial, decolonial, intersectional, and transnational approaches in provocative yet generative ways, the volume amply demonstrates why and how transnational feminism as an analytic and as an intellectual-political project must be brought back front and center in a feminist studies suitable for the mid-twenty-first century and beyond.” -- Sonia E. Alvarez, Leonard J. Horwitz Professor of Latin American Politics and Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst"Transnational Feminist Itineraries provides in-depth analyses of how borders, whether geographical or ideological, do not need to be barriers to collaborative action." -- Curtis J. Jewell * Community Literacy Journal *"This is an important scholarly project and this collection makes a significant contribution in having such studies interface with the analytic tradition of transnational feminism. . . . Assembling this fine collection of studies will move the conversation forward." -- Janet M. Conway * Gender & Society *"This is a volume for academics immersed in the politics of liberation. It offers much food for thought through its reach into diverse spaces, related actors, and their mutual impact. Transnational Feminist Itineraries is recommended for those in the behavioral sciences, gender studies, and as a tool for faculty mentoring dissertation students interested in the overarching topics addressed here." -- Yoly Zentella * Journal of Global South Studies *Table of ContentsEditors' Acknowledgments ix Introduction / Ashwini Tambe and Millie Thayer 1 Part I. Provocations 1. The Many Destinations of Transnational Feminism / Ashwini Tambe and Millie Thayer 13 2. Beyond Antagonism: Rethinking Intersectionality, Transnationalism, and the Women's Studies Academic Job Market / Jennifer C. Nash 37 3. Rethinking Patriarchy and Corruption: Itineraries of US Academic Feminism and Transnational Analysis / Inderpal Grewal 52 Part II. Scale 4. Transnational Feminism and the Politics of Scale: The 2012 Antirape Protests in Dehli / Srila Roy 71 5. Transnational Shifts: The World March of Women in Mexico / Carmen L. Díaz Alba 86 6. Network Ecologies and the Feminist Politics of "Mass Sterilization" in Brazil / Rafael de la Dehesa 101 Part III. Interrogating Corporate Power 7. Transnational Childhoods: Linking Global Production, Local Consumption, and Feminist Resistance / Laura L. Lovett 121 8. Nike's Search for Third World Potential: The Tensions between Corporate Funding and Feminist Futures / Kathryn Moeller 133 Part IV. Intractable Dilemmas 9. Reproductive Justice and the Contradictions of International Surrogacy Claims by Gay Men in Australia / Nancy A. Naples and Mary Bernstein 151 10. Wombs in India: Revisiting Commercial Surrogacy / Amrita Pande 171 Part V. Nationalisms and Plurinationalisms 11. Sporting Transnational Feminisms: Gender, Nation, and Women's Athletic Migrations between Brazil and the United States / Cara K. Snyder 193 12. Mozambican Feminisms: Between the Local and the Global / Isabel Maria Cortesão Casimiro and Catarina Casimiro Trindade 207 13. Plural Sovereignty and la Familia Diversa in Ecuador's 2008 Constitution / Christine "Cricket" Keating and Amy Lind 222 References 239 Contributors 269 Index 275
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Duke University Press The Work of Rape
Book SynopsisRana M. Jaleel links international law's redefinition of mass rape as a crime against humanity to the expansion of US imperialism and its effacement of racialized violence and dispossession.Trade Review“Imaginative and deeply ambitious, The Work of Rape upends conventional thinking. Traversing a vast terrain, Rana M. Jaleel insists we turn from how rape has been problematically framed through various feminist legal efforts so we may reconceptualize its relation to racial and colonial world orderings of life. A brilliant and convincing book.” -- Leti Volpp, Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley“Rana M. Jaleel presents an eye-opening and mesmerizing global account of the contexts, significations, and meanings that rape as a juridical offense and cultural term has undergone from the 1990s to the present. She boldly intervenes into current discussions about rectifying the pervasiveness of societal sexual violence that has been reignited by movements like #TimesUp and #MeToo. One walks away from this book with new clarity about the substantive differences and stakes among women of color, Indigenous, queer, and radical feminist frameworks for understanding sexual violence and for acting against it. This is the book I’ve wanted for these times.” -- Chandan Reddy, author of * Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State *"The Work of Rape is a challenging text, but one that asks us to think deeply and seriously about feminist and queer theory, sexual violence, racialization, and the politics of rape." -- Sameena Mulla * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Work of Rape 1 1. The US Sex Wars Meet the Ethnic Wars 49 2. States of War, Men as State: The Tortured Americas, Genocidal Balkans, and the Sexual State Form 88 3. My Own Private Genocide: From Ethnic War to the War on Terror 110 4. Two Title IXs: Empire and the Transnational Production of "Welcomeness" on Campus 142 Epilogue. Decolonial and Abolitionist Feminisms and the Work of Rape 174 Notes 187 Bibliography 229 Index 255
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Duke University Press Remaindered Life
Book SynopsisIn Remaindered Life Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new conceptual vocabulary and framework for rethinking the dynamics of a global capitalism maintained through permanent imperial war. Tracking how contemporary capitalist accumulation depends on producing life-times of disposability, Tadiar focuses on what she terms remaindered life—practices of living that exceed the distinction between life worth living and life worth expending. Through this heuristic, Tadiar reinterprets the global significance and genealogy of the surplus life-making practices of migrant domestic and service workers, refugees fleeing wars and environmental disasters, criminalized communities, urban slum dwellers, and dispossessed Indigenous people. She also examines artists and filmmakers in the Global South who render forms of various living in the midst of disposability. Retelling the story of globalization from the side of those who reach beyond dominant protocols of living, Tadiar demonstrates how aTrade Review"A comprehensive, imaginative and carefully compiled account of the interstices of power and its workings at fractal and transnational scales . . . compelling not only for exposing the brutality of our current global political economy but also for doing justice to the complexities of moving beyond it." -- Helen Mackreath * LSE Review of Books *"This new work of Marxist-feminism from the Global South is quite simply the most convincing analysis of the current conjuncture I have read. . . . For me, the most important aspect of this book is its righteous ferocity—no injustice can hide from Tadiar’s circumspection." -- Mark Driscoll * positions *"This stunningly brilliant book will break your brain and open your mind. Tadiar focuses on the life-making practices of migrant domestic and service workers, refugees, criminalized communities and dispossessed indigenous people to develop a theory of the surplus-making work of global capitalism. She adds a consideration of Global South artists and filmmakers to illuminate the ways of living that offer new possibilities." -- Lisa Duggan * Commie Pinko Queer newsletter *"Remaindered Life is well worth a careful read. It is, in fact, a landmark work that provides a rich conceptual arsenal for understanding the capitalism of our times, where the periphery has become the center, where capital is intensifying the violent extraction and accumulation of value from surplus lives that belong to communities that, from its very beginnings in the colonial era, were forcibly subjugated by capitalism." -- Walden Bello * Journal of Peasant Studies *Table of ContentsPreface: What This Book Is About ix Acknowledgments xix Part I: In a Time of War 1. The War to Be Human: Value 3 2. A Global Enterprise: Waste 23 3. Becoming-Human in a Time of War: Remainder 49 Interregnum 73 Part II: Life-Times 4. Of Labor and Fate Playing 87 5. Of Disposability 109 6. Of Survival 123 Part III: Globopolis 7. City Everywhere 141 Excursus 173 Part IV: Dead Exchanges 8. Powers of Defending Freedom 199 9. Powers of Expending Life 229 10. Live Borrowings, Living Connections 257 Thresholds 279 Part V: By the Waysides 11. Bypass and Spendor 301 12. And Then Some 329 Notes 335 Bibliography 387 Index 411
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Duke University Press ReUnderstanding Media Feminist Extensions of
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Re-Understanding Media advance a feminist version of Marshall McLuhan’s key text, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, repurposing his insight that “the medium is the message” for feminist ends.Trade Review“This brilliant collection thrillingly updates and interrogates Marshall McLuhan’s work, with abundant insights from feminist and critical race studies. Starting from the insight that ‘the medium is the message,’ Re-Understanding Media refuses the idea of technology as a mere tool, instead showing how it is a structuring form of power—from incubators to platform heels to facial recognition scanners. A challenging and important book.” -- Rosalind Gill, City, University of London“Correcting the lack of feminist and critical race considerations in the body of work of media ecologist Marshall McLuhan, [Re-Understanding Media] explores the gender and racial power dynamics inherent in media technology. . . . The various modes of analyses presented—such as semiotic analysis, autoethnography, and interviews—also demonstrate the breadth of methodologies used in feminist and critical race media studies. Highly recommended.” -- K. Gentles-Peart * Choice *"Re-Understanding Media’s rich provocations to the field and its foundations make it a work of clear and compelling interest for media theorists and feminist scholars, artists, and activists in and outside the academy—if not, perhaps, a heartening read for devoted disciples of McLuhan." -- Eden Rea-Hedrick * The Communication Review *Table of ContentsPreface: The Centre on the Margins / Sarah Sharma vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: A Feminist Medium Is the Message / Sarah Sharma 1 Part I. Retrieving McLuhan's Media 1. Transporting Blackness: Black Materialist Media Theory / Armond R. Towns 23 2. Sidewalks of Concrete and Code / Shannon Mattern 36 3. Hardwired / Nicholas Taylor 51 4. Textile, the Uneasy Medium / Ganaele Langlois 68 Part II. Thinking with McLuhan: An Invitation 5. Dear Incubator / Sara Martel 87 6. Wifesaver: Tupperware and the Unfortunate Spoils of Containment / Brooke Erin Duffy and Jeremy Packer 98 7. “Will Miss File Misfile?” The Filing Cabinet, Automatic Memory, and Gender / Craig Robertson 119 8. Computers Made of Paper, Genders Made of Cards / Cait McKinney 142 9. Sky High: Platforms and the Feminist Politics of Visibility / Rianka Singh and Sarah Banet-Weiser 163 Part III. Media after McLuhan 10. Scanning for Black Data: A Conversation with Nasma Ahmed and Ladan Siad / Sarah Sharma and Rianka Singh 179 11. 3D Printing and Digital Colonialism: A Conversation with Morehshin Allahyari / Sarah Sharma and Rianka Singh 192 12. Toward a Media Theory of the Digital Bundle: A Conversation with Jennifer Wemigwans / Sarah Sharma 208 Afterword: After McLuhan / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun 225 Bibliography 233 Contributors 255 Index 259
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Duke University Press Unsettled Borders
Book SynopsisIn Unsettled Borders Felicity Amaya Schaeffer examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Apache, Tohono O’odham, and Maya who fight to protect their sacred land. Schaeffer traces the scientific and technological development of militarized border surveillance across time and space from Spanish colonial lookout points in Arizona and Mexico to the Indian wars, when the US cavalry hired Native scouts to track Apache fleeing into Mexico, to the occupation of the Tohono O’odham reservation and the recent launch of robotic bee swarms. Labeled “Optics Valley,” Arizona builds on a global history of violent dispossession and containment of Native peoples and migrants by branding itself as a profitable hub for surveillance. Schaeffer reverses the logic of borders by turning to Indigenous sacredsciences: ancestral land-based practices that are critical to reversing the ecological and social violence of surveillance, exTrade Review“[Unsettled Borders] includes an impressively documented bibliography. The text ultimately succeeds in telling a story of violence against Indigenous peoples and their cultures, perpetrated in the name of border security, and documenting the use of surveillance technology, which has permanently altered the landscape. Recommended.” -- G. Christensen * Choice *"Unsettled Borders makes an outstanding contribution to replacing some of the missing pieces while incorporating neocolonialism and interethnic borders into state border studies. Its author, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, builds a great basis for a problem that is gaining greater visibility, exposing an equal criminalization of migrant people and indigenous communities." -- Tania Porcaro * Journal of Borderlands Studies *"I loved the big picture and provocative ideas that expanded my own understanding of topics I have studied for many years. . . . The book centers Indigenous perspectives to demonstrate not only the contributions Indigenous science has made to (or rather, been appropriated by) the military-industrial/border-security complex, but also the ways that Indigenous scholarship contributes to our understanding of this dynamic from a critical thinking perspective. The primary focus of the book is U.S. borders and Arizona features prominently therein, but the lessons go well beyond this geography as approaches to border security have become globalized." -- Kenneth D. Madsen * Indigenous Religious Traditions *"Unsettled Borders is a rich and skillful analysis of military discourse, settler technoscience, and ethnographic materials primarily devoted to events in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands, but with resonances across other settler colonial spaces (within and beyond the United States)." -- Iván Chaar López * Postcolonial Studies *Table of ContentsPreface. TimeSpaces of Dispossession to the Forging of Indigenous Relations with Land ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Tracking Footprints: Settler Surveillance across Unsettled Borders 1 1. “The Eyes of the Army”: Indian Scouts and the Rise of Military Innovation during the Apache Wars 29 2. Occupation on Sacred Land: Colliding Sovereignties on the Tohono O’odham Reservation 55 3. Automated Border Control: Criminalizing the “Hidden Intent” of Migrant/Native Embodiment 81 4. From the Eyes of the Bees: Biorobotic Border Security and the Resurgence of Bee Collectives in the Yucatán 104 Conclusion. Wild versus Sacred: The Ongoing Border War against Indigenous Peoples 139 Notes 153 Bibliography 185 Index 201
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Duke University Press Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the
Book SynopsisJed Samer explores how 1970s feminists took up the figure of the lesbian in broad attempts to reimagine gender and sexuality by studying feminist film, video, and science fiction literature.Trade Review“Jed Samer reworks the genealogy of contemporary feminist, queer, and trans cultural politics in this fascinating foray into the futures envisioned by speculative lesbian literature and media half a century ago. It’s brilliant, generative, and timely.” -- Susan Stryker, Executive Editor, * TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly *“Feminist documentary and science fiction: they nourish so many of our lives in tandem, but we so often study them separately. By merging the perspectives of the scholar, maker, and fan while traversing spaces from the archive to the convention hall and refining ideas as elegant as their gorgeous prose, Jed Samer is the perfect person to conduct this tour of the distinctive yet deeply overlapping legacies of these genres and the people who made them possible.” -- Nick Davis, author of * The Desiring-Image: Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer Cinema *“Samer’s excellent book . . . is relevant to contemporary 21C debates on who may and who may not claim to be a lesbian but, more significantly, the range of its scope, imagination, and ambition far exceeds the narrow and prescriptive terms in which such debates are framed by the British media." -- Nick Hubble * Prospective Cultures *"Samer’s work creates new ground for feminist sf scholarship, deeply contextualizing the importance of lesbian feminist fannish productions in the 1970s. . . . A valuable source for those interested in exploring feminist fan histories. It would also be suitable in courses exploring feminist sf, gender, and sexuality studies." -- Kathryn Heffner * Science Fiction Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Living in the Lesbian's Former Future: A Media Historiography of Imagination for When the Present Is Past 1 1. Feminist Media in Movement: The National Women's Film Circuit and International Videoletters 39 2. Producing Freedom: 1970s Feminist Documentary and Women's Prison Activism 90 3. Raising Fannish Consciousness: The Formation of Feminist Science Fiction Fandom 138 4. Tip/Alli: Cutting a Transfeminist Genealogy of Siblinghood 179 Epilogue. Potentiality Born in Flames 216 Notes 231 Bibliography 267 Index 281
£80.10
Duke University Press The Dancers Voice
Book SynopsisRumya Sree Putcha uses the figure of the Indian classical dancer to explore the complex dynamics of contemporary transnational Indian womanhood.Trade Review"What is unique about Putcha’s book is that it centres the desires and agency of the women dancers, rather than the cultural gatekeepers or the institutions that seek to control the art form. Her book also follows the figure of the dancer beyond the formal classical dance arenas to give us a more comprehensive idea of who the dancer becomes for multiple audiences. This is not an easy book to read, but it is an intriguing one." -- Tapoja Chaudhuri * International Examiner *Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration and Language ix Prologue xi Introduction 1 1. Womanhood 21 2. Caste 43 3. Citizenship 67 4. Silence 89 Epilogue 115 Acknowledgments 123 Glossary 129 Notes 133 Filmography 151 References 163 Index 181
£67.15
Duke University Press Archive of Tongues
Book SynopsisMoon Charania explores feminine dispossession and the brown diaspora through a reflection on the life of her mother, recovering otherwise silenced modes of brown mothers' survival, disobedience and meaning-making that are often only lived out in invisible, intimate spaces.Trade Review“Moon Charania’s rearticulations of the now-sedimented tropes of nation, gender, and patriarchy are very moving. I found myself with an entirely new set of questions about my own theorizing, feminism, and prejudices in regard to not only decolonial and gender studies, but my family history as well. While Archive of Tongues is deeply personal, it productively unsettles what much of Western feminism continues to take for granted, if not reify, about women in the Global South, Pakistani women, brown women, and migrant women. This book will be so important to feminist, decolonial, and transnational thinkers and writers as a coming-of-age feminist diasporic perspective on grappling with gendered and raced intergenerational trauma and violence.” -- Jasbir K. Puar, author of * The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability *“Archive of Tongues is lively, taut, and wickedly smart. Moon Charania unflinchingly guides the reader through biographical, anecdotal, and theoretical interventions. The stakes of her project are major: the reorientation and decolonization of knowledge. Making tangible the depth and instability of bodily/lived knowledge, this compelling book will contribute to psychoanalysis, critical ethnic studies, women of color feminisms, queer studies, and affect studies.” -- Amber Jamilla Musser, author of * Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance *Table of ContentsPreface ix Gratitudes xv Prologue xxi Introduction. A Story on Tongues 1 1. Abject Tongues 27 2. Forked Tongues 63 3. Promiscuous Tongues 89 4. The Other End of the Tongue 122 Afterword 139 Notes 143 Bibliography 155 Index 163
£70.55
Duke University Press Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the
Book SynopsisJed Samer explores how 1970s feminists took up the figure of the lesbian in broad attempts to reimagine gender and sexuality by studying feminist film, video, and science fiction literature.Trade Review“Jed Samer reworks the genealogy of contemporary feminist, queer, and trans cultural politics in this fascinating foray into the futures envisioned by speculative lesbian literature and media half a century ago. It’s brilliant, generative, and timely.” -- Susan Stryker, Executive Editor, * TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly *“Feminist documentary and science fiction: they nourish so many of our lives in tandem, but we so often study them separately. By merging the perspectives of the scholar, maker, and fan while traversing spaces from the archive to the convention hall and refining ideas as elegant as their gorgeous prose, Jed Samer is the perfect person to conduct this tour of the distinctive yet deeply overlapping legacies of these genres and the people who made them possible.” -- Nick Davis, author of * The Desiring-Image: Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer Cinema *“Samer’s excellent book . . . is relevant to contemporary 21C debates on who may and who may not claim to be a lesbian but, more significantly, the range of its scope, imagination, and ambition far exceeds the narrow and prescriptive terms in which such debates are framed by the British media." -- Nick Hubble * Prospective Cultures *"Samer’s work creates new ground for feminist sf scholarship, deeply contextualizing the importance of lesbian feminist fannish productions in the 1970s. . . . A valuable source for those interested in exploring feminist fan histories. It would also be suitable in courses exploring feminist sf, gender, and sexuality studies." -- Kathryn Heffner * Science Fiction Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Living in the Lesbian's Former Future: A Media Historiography of Imagination for When the Present Is Past 1 1. Feminist Media in Movement: The National Women's Film Circuit and International Videoletters 39 2. Producing Freedom: 1970s Feminist Documentary and Women's Prison Activism 90 3. Raising Fannish Consciousness: The Formation of Feminist Science Fiction Fandom 138 4. Tip/Alli: Cutting a Transfeminist Genealogy of Siblinghood 179 Epilogue. Potentiality Born in Flames 216 Notes 231 Bibliography 267 Index 281
£20.69
Duke University Press The Dancers Voice
Book SynopsisIn The Dancer's Voice Rumya Sree Putcha theorizes how the Indian classical dancer performs the complex dynamics of transnational Indian womanhood. Putcha argues that the public persona of the Indian dancer has come to represent India in the global imagination-a representation that supports caste hierarchies and Hindu ethnonationalism, as well as white supremacist model minority narratives. Generations of Indian women have been encouraged to embody the archetype of the dancer, popularized through film cultures from the 1930s to the present. Through analyses of films, immigration and marriage laws, histories of caste and race, advertising campaigns, and her own family's heirlooms, photographs, and memories, Putcha reveals how women's citizenship is based on separating their voices from their bodies. In listening closely to and for the dancer's voice, she offers a new way to understand the intersections of body, voice, performance, caste, race, gender, and nation.Trade Review"What is unique about Putcha’s book is that it centres the desires and agency of the women dancers, rather than the cultural gatekeepers or the institutions that seek to control the art form. Her book also follows the figure of the dancer beyond the formal classical dance arenas to give us a more comprehensive idea of who the dancer becomes for multiple audiences. This is not an easy book to read, but it is an intriguing one." -- Tapoja Chaudhuri * International Examiner *Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration and Language ix Prologue xi Introduction 1 1. Womanhood 21 2. Caste 43 3. Citizenship 67 4. Silence 89 Epilogue 115 Acknowledgments 123 Glossary 129 Notes 133 Filmography 151 References 163 Index 181
£17.99
Duke University Press Archive of Tongues
Book SynopsisMoon Charania explores feminine dispossession and the brown diaspora through a reflection on the life of her mother, recovering otherwise silenced modes of brown mothers' survival, disobedience and meaning-making that are often only lived out in invisible, intimate spaces.Trade Review“Moon Charania’s rearticulations of the now-sedimented tropes of nation, gender, and patriarchy are very moving. I found myself with an entirely new set of questions about my own theorizing, feminism, and prejudices in regard to not only decolonial and gender studies, but my family history as well. While Archive of Tongues is deeply personal, it productively unsettles what much of Western feminism continues to take for granted, if not reify, about women in the Global South, Pakistani women, brown women, and migrant women. This book will be so important to feminist, decolonial, and transnational thinkers and writers as a coming-of-age feminist diasporic perspective on grappling with gendered and raced intergenerational trauma and violence.” -- Jasbir K. Puar, author of * The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability *“Archive of Tongues is lively, taut, and wickedly smart. Moon Charania unflinchingly guides the reader through biographical, anecdotal, and theoretical interventions. The stakes of her project are major: the reorientation and decolonization of knowledge. Making tangible the depth and instability of bodily/lived knowledge, this compelling book will contribute to psychoanalysis, critical ethnic studies, women of color feminisms, queer studies, and affect studies.” -- Amber Jamilla Musser, author of * Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance *Table of ContentsPreface ix Gratitudes xv Prologue xxi Introduction. A Story on Tongues 1 1. Abject Tongues 27 2. Forked Tongues 63 3. Promiscuous Tongues 89 4. The Other End of the Tongue 122 Afterword 139 Notes 143 Bibliography 155 Index 163
£18.99
Duke University Press The Affect Theory Reader 2
Book SynopsisBuilding on the foundational Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together contemporary scholarship that highlights and interrogates the contemporary state of affect inquiry. Unsettling what might be too readily taken-for-granted assumptions in affect theory, The Affect Theory Reader 2 extends and challenges how contemporary theories of affect intersect with a wide range of topics and fields that include Black studies, queer and trans theory, Indigenous cosmologies, feminist cultural analysis, psychoanalysis, and media ecologies. It foregrounds vital touchpoints for contemporary studies of affect, from the visceral elements of climate emergency and the sensorial sinews of networked media to the minor feelings entangled with listening, looking, thinking, writing, and teaching otherwise. Tracing affect’s resonances with today’s most critical debates, The Affect Theory Reader 2 will reorient and disorient readers to the past, present, and future pTrade Review“The Affect Theory Reader 2 surveys the burgeoning field whose development its predecessor did so much to catalyze. In the intervening thirteen years, the study of affect has spread its capillaries across an ever-growing spectrum of disciplines, while at the same time expanding the scope of its own problematics. This new anthology skillfully presents a much-needed digest of the state of the field today. The essays it brings together address a wide range of topics, opening new perspectives on some of the most pressing issues of our time, including, in a reckoning that is long overdue for the field, an emphasis on issues of race. This is an excellent and timely volume that readers interested in affect studies and allied areas will find indispensable.” -- Brian Massumi, author of * Couplets: Travels in Speculative Pragmatism *“The essays in The Affect Theory Reader 2 offer galvanizing, clarifying experiments with thought and form. Wholly reimagined from its previous incarnation, this ‘cluster of attunings’ showcases the maturity of this line of inquiry and so many of its emergent conversations, while at the same time finding the mettle to rethink the origins and legacies of ‘affect theory’ as such. An exciting offering for anyone who imagines the minor registers of experience deserves an unmistakably major volume.” -- Jordan Alexander Stein, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Fordham UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: A Shimmer of Inventories / Gregory J. Seigworth and Carolyn Pedwell 1 Part One. Tensions, In Solution 1. The Elements of Affect Theories / Derek P. McCormack 63 2. Ambiguous Affect: Excitements That Make the Self / Susanna Paasonen 85 3. Tomkins in Tension / Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson 103 4. Affect and Affirmation / Tyrone S. Palmer 122 5. Unfuckology: Affectability, Temporality, and Unleashing the Sex/Gender Binary / Kyla Schuller 141 Part Two. Minor Feelings and the Sensorial Possibilities of Form 6. Minor Feelings and the Affective Life of Race / Ann Cvetkovich 161 7. Resisting the Enclosure of Trans Affective Commons / Hil Malatino 179 8. Too Thick Love, or Bearing the Unbearable / Rizvana Bradley 191 9. Migration: An Intimacy / Omar Kasmani 214 Part Three. Unlearning and the Conditions of Arrival 10. Unlearning Affect / M. Gail Hamner 233 11. Why This? Affective Pedagogy in the Wake / Nathan Snaza 255 12. The Feeling of Knowing Music / Dylan Robinson and Patrick Nickleson 273 Part Four. The Matter of Experience, or, Reminding Consciousness of Its Necessary Modesty 13. Nonconscious Affect: Cognitive, Embodied, or Nonbifurcated Experience? / Tony D. Sampson 295 14. Catch an Incline: The Impersonality of the Minor / Erin Manning 315 15. Emotions and Affects of Convolution / Lisa Blackman 326 16. Haunting Voices: Affective Atmospheres as Transtemporal Contact / Cecilia Macón 347 Part Five. A Living Laboratory: Glitching the Affective Reproduction of the Social 17. The Affective Reproduction of Capital: Two Returns to Spinoza / Jason Read 367 18. Algorithmic Governance and Racializing Affect / Ezekiel Dixon-Román 384 19. Dividual Economies, of Data, of Flesh / Jasbir K. Puar 406 20. Algorithmic Trauma / Michael Richardson 423 Coda 447 A Note / Kathleen Stewart 449 Poisonality / Lauren Berlant 451 Contributors 465 Index 471
£92.70
Duke University Press Virgin Mary and the Neutrino
Book SynopsisIn Virgin Mary and the Neutrino, first published in French in 2006 and here appearing in English for the first time, Isabelle Stengers experiments with the possibility of addressing modern practices not as a block but through their divergence from each other. Drawing on thinkers ranging from John Dewey to Gilles Deleuze, she develops what she calls an “ecology of practices” into a capacious and heterogeneous perspective that is inclusive of cultural and political forces but not reducible to them. Stengers first advocates for an approach to sciences that would emphasize the way each should be situated by the kind of relationships demanded by what it attempts to address. This approach turns away from the disabling scientific/nonscientific binary—like the opposition between the neutrino and the Virgin Mary. An ecology of practices instead stimulates an appetite for thinking reality not as an arbiter but as what we can relate to through the generation of diverging Trade Review“Virgin Mary and the Neutrino is an extraordinary exploration of the events that have shaped the relationship between scientific practices and the public—the devastating effects of which we see today, especially in ecological situations. It is also the best introduction to Isabelle Stengers’s body of work, which is undoubtedly one of the most important and original in contemporary thought.” -- Didier Debaise, author of * Nature as Event: The Lure of the Possible *“Virgin Mary and the Neutrino counts among the contemporary classics written by one of the most creative and boldest philosophers of science. Isabelle Stengers’s proposals have the inevitable quality of inducing thought. This book will initiate anyone, no matter the stage of their career, who wants to become familiar with Stengers’s inspiring brilliance.” -- Marisol de la Cadena, author of * Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds *Table of ContentsTranslator’s Preface vii 1. Scientists in Trouble 1 2. The Force of Experimentation 17 3. Dissolving Amalgams 38 4. The Sciences in Their Milieus 61 5.Troubling the Public Order 86 Intermezzo: The Creation of Concepts 111 6. On the Same Plane? 119 7. We Are Not Alone in the World 144 8. Ecology of Practices 169 9. The Cosmopolitical Test 197 Appendix: The First Experimental Apparatus? 207 Notes 217 Bibliography 235 Index 241
£73.95
Duke University Press Tendings
Book SynopsisNathan Snaza brings contemporary feminist and queer popular culture's resurging interest in esoteric practices like tarot and witchcraft into conversation with Black feminist and new materialist thought to highlight new ways of rejecting the colonialist and racist mission of enlightenment modernity.
£74.70
Duke University Press Feminism against Cisness
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Feminism against Cisness showcase the future of feminist historical, theoretical, and political thought freed from the conceptual strictures of cisness: the fallacy that assigned sex determines sexed experience. The essays demonstrate that this fallacy hinges on the enforcement of white and bourgeois standards of gender comportment that naturalize brutalizing race and class hierarchies. It is, therefore, no accident that the social processes making cisness compulsory are also implicated in anti-Blackness, misogyny, Indigenous erasure, xenophobia, and bourgeois antipathy for working-class life. Working from trans historical archives and materialist trans feminist theories, this volume demonstrates the violent work that cis ideology has done and thinks toward a future for feminism beyond this ideology''s counterrevolutionary pull. Contributors. Cameron Awkward-Rich, Marquis Bey, Kay Gabriel, Jules Gill-Peterson, Emma Heaney, Margaux L. Kristjansson,
£78.30
Duke University Press Insurgent Visions
£86.40
Duke University Press Between Shadows and Noise
Book SynopsisAmber Jamilla Musser theorizes sensation as a Black feminist method for aesthetic interpretation and criticism that uses the knowledges held by the body to access the unrepresentable.Trade Review“Between Shadows and Noise is a brilliant meditation on anti-imperial forms of enmeshment and relation that exist beyond monolithic representation. Through a carefully crafted and resoundingly intimate practice of critical situatedness, Amber Jamilla Musser brings the critic into embodied relation with every scene of encounter. Animal bodies, maternal bodies, the bodies of strangers, and our own vulnerable bodies coalesce in this beautiful book to orient us toward the plurivocal and multisensory worlds always proliferating against colonial capture.” -- Julietta Singh, author of * The Breaks *“Bringing together unexpected constellations of contemporary texts while experimenting with form and point of view, Amber Jamilla Musser holistically reenvisions how a body of work can be stretched, massaged, and released in order to attune to the creative ways racialized, colonized, and queer bodies map and remap the embodied experiences of trauma and resilience. This thought-provoking, beautifully written, and creative work will reshape current conversations in Black studies, feminist studies, art criticism, performance studies, film studies, and beyond.” -- Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, author of * The Color Pynk: Black Femme Art for Survival *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Body Work 1 1. Us, the Uncanny, and the Threat of Black Femininity 21 2. Inside Out: Shango and Spectacles of the Spirit 42 3. Noise and the Body-Place: This ember state and the Critical Encounter 59 4. On the Brink: Approximation, Difference, and Ongoing Storms 76 5. Tamarind, Metabolism, and Rest: Making Racialized Labor Visible 94 Conclusion. Inflammation: Notes from the Front 112 Notes 131 Bibliography 157 Index 175
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New York University Press Losing Sleep
Book SynopsisNew insights into the anxiety over infant sleep safetyNew parents are inundated with warnings about the fatal risks of co-sleeping, or sharing a bed with a newborn, from medical brochures and website forums, to billboard advertisements and the evening news. In Losing Sleep, Laura Harrison uncovers the origins of the infant sleep safety debate, providing a window into the unprecedented anxieties of modern parenthood. Exploring widespread rhetoric from doctors, public health experts, and the media, Harrison explains why our panic has reached an all-time high. She traces the way safe sleep standards in the United States have changed, and shows how parents, rather than broader systems of inequality that impact issues of housing and precarity, are increasingly being held responsible for infant health outcomes. Harrison shows that infant mortality rates differ widely by race and are linked to socioeconomic status. Yet, while racial disparities in infant mortality point to systemic and structTrade ReviewLosing Sleep is a superb contribution to the literature on infant risk, maternal responsibility, and reproductive justice. Framing infant safe sleep as a social construct, Harrison analyzes the ways safe sleep campaigns reproduce inequalities and fail to account for structural causes of infant death. The book is insightful, engaging, and timely. * Monica J. Casper, author of Babylost: Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z *Losing Sleep has an impressive scope and dynamic analysis....Harrison artfully draws on scholarship across sociology, feminist theory, feminist science studies, and reproductive justice to showcase how medical, political, legal, and public policy approaches work together to reward some parents (primarily mothers) and punish others....Harrison invites readers to reflect on taken-for-granted parenting advice about infant sleep to demonstrate the social and political dimensions of it, an absorbing read. * Laury Oaks, author of Giving Up Baby: Safe Haven Laws, Motherhood, and Reproductive Justice *
£66.60
New York University Press Losing Sleep
Book SynopsisNew insights into the anxiety over infant sleep safetyNew parents are inundated with warnings about the fatal risks of co-sleeping, or sharing a bed with a newborn, from medical brochures and website forums, to billboard advertisements and the evening news. In Losing Sleep, Laura Harrison uncovers the origins of the infant sleep safety debate, providing a window into the unprecedented anxieties of modern parenthood. Exploring widespread rhetoric from doctors, public health experts, and the media, Harrison explains why our panic has reached an all-time high. She traces the way safe sleep standards in the United States have changed, and shows how parents, rather than broader systems of inequality that impact issues of housing and precarity, are increasingly being held responsible for infant health outcomes. Harrison shows that infant mortality rates differ widely by race and are linked to socioeconomic status. Yet, while racial disparities in infant mortality point to systemic and structTrade Review"Losing Sleep is a superb contribution to the literature on infant risk, maternal responsibility, and reproductive justice. Framing infant safe sleep as a social construct, Harrison analyzes the ways safe sleep campaigns reproduce inequalities and fail to account for structural causes of infant death. The book is insightful, engaging, and timely." * Monica J. Casper, author of Babylost: Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z *"Losing Sleep has an impressive scope and dynamic analysis....Harrison artfully draws on scholarship across sociology, feminist theory, feminist science studies, and reproductive justice to showcase how medical, political, legal, and public policy approaches work together to reward some parents (primarily mothers) and punish others....Harrison invites readers to reflect on taken-for-granted parenting advice about infant sleep to demonstrate the social and political dimensions of it, an absorbing read." * Laury Oaks, author of Giving Up Baby: Safe Haven Laws, Motherhood, and Reproductive Justice *
£23.74
New York University Press Embodied Avatars
Book SynopsisHow black women have personified art,expression,identity, and freedom through performanceWinner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or cultureWinner, 2016 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, presented by the American Society for Theatre ResearchWinner, 2016 Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship in African American theater, drama, and/or performance studies, presented by the American Society for Theatre ResearchTracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Uri McMillan contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self-objectification, transforming themselves into art objects. In doing so, these artists raised new ways to ponder the intersections of art, performance, and black female embodiment.McMillan reframes the conceTrade Review"Uri McMillans magisterial debut book engages while naming a two-century-long tradition of black womens performance art in the United States, intervening in the problematic racialization and gendering of particular art historical traditions buttressed by the presumed absence of black womens aesthetic and political enactments." * Theatre Journal *"Uri McMillan's magisterial debut book engages while naming a two-century-long tradition of black women's performance art in the United States...Part of the greatness of this book is its complicated engagement with racialized, gendered, and sexualized objecthood as method, the risk-taking practices whereby the historically unfree recalculate the possibilities objecthood for smuggling in liberatory alternatives." * Theatre Journal *"Embodied Avatarsdestabilizes the boundaries between art, objecthood, and survival within the last two centuries [....] Readers are left with the reverberating echoes of not only the black women artists profiled, but the resonances of their multiple avatars, becoming a fierce atonal chorus. Performing objecthood becomes a transformative human strategy in the face of searing dehumanization. Rather than arguing for another iteration of the human as a salvageable category, McMillans innovative scholarship illuminates a complex and obstinate way of being, a being that strikingly prefers not to." * Women & Performance *"Roll over Joseph Beuys, tell Yves Klein the news! Embodied Avatarsradically disrupts prevailing histories, definitions, and genealogies of performance art by focusing on black women who, over the course of two centuries, sought to turn their degraded bodies into dissident tools of emancipation and social critique. Recognizing the first modern stage of black performativity as the auction block, Uri McMillan reveals how black women turned objectification into objecthood, enabling them to remake, disguise, remold the self into an object of resistance, an embodied nightmare to the American dream. Full of eye-popping analytical turns and thrilling theoretical high wire acts, this book is both brilliant scholarship and a performance to be reckoned with." -- Robin D. G. Kelley,author of Thelonious Monk"Embodied Avatarspresents a sweeping and charismatic investigation of the ways in which Black women have strategically staged versions of 'themselves as modes of public, personal, and critical performance and as interventions in art, expression, identity, identification, and freedom.This vibrant and energetic study of art, performance, and embodiment is far-reaching, profound, lively, and engaging." -- Stephanie Leigh Batiste,author of Darkening Mirrors"Uri McMillan takes us on a journey to unexpected terrain. With powerful alchemy, he reveals how black women performance artists work on multiple registersthrough seduction, trickery, the comfort of the seemingly familiarto enact possibility, or what he theorizes as performance & in the service of a certain type of freedom. Meticulously researched and rigorously theorized, Embodied Avatarsis a model of interdisciplinary scholarship grounded in archival work and impressive textual analysis. This book is certain to forge new paths of inquiry and debate in performance, gender and sexuality studies, and black cultural studies." -- Nicole R. Fleetwood,author of Troubling Vision"AlthoughEmbodied Avatarsis an art historical text, the author displays an admirable dexterity across discipline and epistemologies: the mixture of art history, disability studies, object-oriented ontology, and discourses of black subjectivity is deft and, at times, dazzling." * QED *"Uri McMillans Embodied Avatars is a masterfully multilayered exposition of black womens performance art from the nineteenth century to the present. McMillan not only centers black women within traditional and feminist performance art, but also challenges black hegemonic ideas about objectification in performance." * Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Performing Objects 1 1. Mammy Memory: The Curious Case of Joice Heth, the Ancient Negress 23 2. Passing Performances: Ellen Craft's Fugitive Selves 65 3. Plastic Possibilities: Adrian Piper's Adamant Self-Alienation 95 4. Is This Performance about You? The Art, Activism, and Black Feminist Critique of Howardena Pindell 153 Conclusion: "I've Been Performing My Whole Life" 197 Notes 227 Index 275 About the Author 283 McMillan_i_283.indd 9 7/30/15 9:04 AM
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New York University Press Gilded Suffragists
Book SynopsisNew York City's elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolutionIn the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their namesAstor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and the likecarried enormous public value. These women were the media darlings of their day because of the extravagance of their costume balls and the opulence of the French couture clothes, and they leveraged their social celebrity for political power, turning women's right to vote into a fashionable cause. Although they were dismissed by critics as bored socialites trying on suffrage as they might the latest couture designs from Paris, these gilded suffragists were at the epicenter of the great reforms known collectively as the Progressive Era. From championing education for women, to pursuing careers, and advocating for the end of marriage, these women were engaged with the swirl of change that swept through the sTrade Review"Setting the record straight on the driving forces in the early-20th-century fight for women's suffrage . . . Neuman counters the popular opinion that these women were merely bored socialites trying on suffrage as they might the latest couture designs from Paris," and she makes a solid case . . . Neuman concisely explains how thesegildedwomen have been airbrushed out of history, resented by those who felt exploited, but thankfully, they succeeded, and women vote today because of them." * Kirkus Reviews *"This flowing account of women, whose financial contributions, celebrity, style, and innovative strategies revitalized a cause and changed history, will be welcomed by all readers." * Library Journal *"First impressions, 'that unconscious cue that forms a feeling or opinion.' Fashion, style, dress, all non-verbal signals to society about ones social status, occupation or heritage. Dr. Neuman brilliantly explores how the doyennes of Americas elite used their wardrobe and homes to lure a movement and promote an ideology. These political socialites made the Red Carpet their runway for the cause of womens suffrage and promote a fashionable trend under the label 'Votes for Women Campaign.'" -- Norine Fuller,Executive Director, The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, FIDM"Imagine, if you will, you've managed an invitation to a society event in Gilded Age Manhattan. In her compelling study of personality and social power, Johanna Neuman introduces you to the women in the room, all fashionable, most wealthy beyond imagination, and yet all politically powerless. These are not the women we think of as leaders in the fight for women's right to vote, yet here they are in this fascinating study, dressed to the nines, disarming to the patriarchy, and determined. Both socialites and activists, they shaped an age when fashion and celebrity became weapons of radical change." -- Marc Pachter,Director Emeritus, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution"In this fast-paced and important book, Johanna Neuman reminds us of the enormous mobilizations--the rallies and speeches and campaignsthat women of all classes engaged in to build one of the most consequential social movements in American history. Elite women from New York City, Neuman emphasizes, played a central role in these mobilizations. They entered the political fray at considerable risk and used their resources, influence and cultural capital to move the nation towards equal voting rights." -- Sven Beckert,author of Monied Metropolis"With its rollicking narratives of determined personalities and rancorous barbs, Gilded Suffragists makes the story of winning woman suffrage encompass the several determined and super-wealthy New York women whose leadership, social cachet and fashionable presence injected new liveliness and power into the movement at crucial junctures." -- Nancy F. Cott,Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University
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New York University Press Pain Generation
Book SynopsisExplores the perils and promise of feminist social media activismSocial media has become the front-and-center arena for feminist activism. Responding to and enacting the political potential of pain inflicted in acts of sexual harassment, violence, and abuse, Asian American and Asian Canadian feminist icons such as rupi kaur, Margaret Cho, and Mia Matsumiya have turned to social media to share their stories with the world. But how does such activism reconcile with the platforms on which it is being cultivated, when its radical messaging is at total odds with the neoliberal logic governing social media?Pain Generation troubles this phenomenon by articulating a neoliberal self(ie) gaze through which these feminist activistssee and storify the self on social media as good neoliberal subjects who are appealing, inspiring, and entertaining. This book offers a fresh perspective on feminist activism by demonstrating how the problematic neoliberal logic governing diTrade ReviewDeeply researched and meticulously reasoned, Pain Generation offers an incisive and thought-provoking new direction in thinking about the context, challenges, and possibilities for feminist activism in the neoliberalized digital space. The book provides us with a thorough, intimate, and nuanced analysis of an uneasy and complex relationship between feminism and neoliberalism as they are entangled with each other in social media. And by so doing, it not only exposes the underlying neoliberal structure of social media that controls and limits feminist activism, but also helps us imagine an alternative pathway for more critical, reflective, and reflexive social media practices for doing feminist activism online. * Merlyna Lim, Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society. *A committed and engaged account of how neoliberal logics limit and shape feminist activism on social media. The book offers tantalizing concepts to use in feminist media studies, chief among them the ‘neoliberal self(ie)gaze.’ While Ayu Saraswati sees the trouble in turning to social media to do feminist work, she nevertheless locates a space to engage in collective acts of resistance, solidarity, self-love, and accountability through what she calls ‘vigilant eco-love.’ The book itself is an act of ‘vigilant eco-love’ —thinking about how social media platforms and their ‘likes’ and ‘retweets’ limit intersectional feminist and anti-racist work and channel our pain toward self-care and personal responsibility over accountability and structural change. While passionately non-judgmental and attentive to how these pitfalls challenge our feminist work, Pain Generation provides a framework for doing feminist work online as vigilant eco-loving warriors. * Krista Lynes, author of Primatic Media, Transnational Circuits: Feminism in a Globalized Present *The analyses are incisive and the theories applicable far beyond the specific examples, especially for those promoting social activism in digital spaces. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals. -- CHOICE * CHOICE *This book is a compelling read for scholars interested in feminism, digital media, online activism, and for activists themselves. It reveals that many online practices or expressions used by activists – such as self-love for example –, have been neoliberalized. Ayu Sarawasti provides new concepts to think about the challenges of online feminist activism, and she suggests clear directions, solutions, and hope for social justice, so that feminist activism will not be exploited by the neoliberal machine. What makes this book very engaging is its thorough focus on the role of neoliberalism, but one might wonder if some of the complex dynamics described in the book might not be linked to other issues than only neoliberalism, for example the way that sexual violence is viewed as an individual issue and not a systemic one. The comprehensive study of the all-encompassing impact and influence of neoliberalism is nonetheless absolutely nuanced and definitely illuminating. -- InMedia Journal * InMedia Journal *
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New York University Press Pain Generation
Book SynopsisExplores the perils and promise of feminist social media activismSocial media has become the front-and-center arena for feminist activism. Responding to and enacting the political potential of pain inflicted in acts of sexual harassment, violence, and abuse, Asian American and Asian Canadian feminist icons such as rupi kaur, Margaret Cho, and Mia Matsumiya have turned to social media to share their stories with the world. But how does such activism reconcile with the platforms on which it is being cultivated, when its radical messaging is at total odds with the neoliberal logic governing social media?Pain Generation troubles this phenomenon by articulating a neoliberal self(ie) gaze through which these feminist activistssee and storify the self on social media as good neoliberal subjects who are appealing, inspiring, and entertaining. This book offers a fresh perspective on feminist activism by demonstrating how the problematic neoliberal logic governing digital spaces like Instagram aTrade Review"Deeply researched and meticulously reasoned, Pain Generation offers an incisive and thought-provoking new direction in thinking about the context, challenges, and possibilities for feminist activism in the neoliberalized digital space. The book provides us with a thorough, intimate, and nuanced analysis of an uneasy and complex relationship between feminism and neoliberalism as they are entangled with each other in social media. And by so doing, it not only exposes the underlying neoliberal structure of social media that controls and limits feminist activism, but also helps us imagine an alternative pathway for more critical, reflective, and reflexive social media practices for doing feminist activism online." * Merlyna Lim, Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society. *"A committed and engaged account of how neoliberal logics limit and shape feminist activism on social media. The book offers tantalizing concepts to use in feminist media studies, chief among them the ‘neoliberal self(ie)gaze.’ While Ayu Saraswati sees the trouble in turning to social media to do feminist work, she nevertheless locates a space to engage in collective acts of resistance, solidarity, self-love, and accountability through what she calls ‘vigilant eco-love.’ The book itself is an act of ‘vigilant eco-love’ —thinking about how social media platforms and their ‘likes’ and ‘retweets’ limit intersectional feminist and anti-racist work and channel our pain toward self-care and personal responsibility over accountability and structural change. While passionately non-judgmental and attentive to how these pitfalls challenge our feminist work, Pain Generation provides a framework for doing feminist work online as vigilant eco-loving warriors." * Krista Lynes, author of Primatic Media, Transnational Circuits: Feminism in a Globalized Present *"The analyses are incisive and the theories applicable far beyond the specific examples, especially for those promoting social activism in digital spaces. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- Choice * Choice *"This book is a compelling read for scholars interested in feminism, digital media, online activism, and for activists themselves. It reveals that many online practices or expressions used by activists – such as self-love for example –, have been neoliberalized. Ayu Sarawasti provides new concepts to think about the challenges of online feminist activism, and she suggests clear directions, solutions, and hope for social justice, so that feminist activism will not be exploited by the neoliberal machine. What makes this book very engaging is its thorough focus on the role of neoliberalism, but one might wonder if some of the complex dynamics described in the book might not be linked to other issues than only neoliberalism, for example the way that sexual violence is viewed as an individual issue and not a systemic one. The comprehensive study of the all-encompassing impact and influence of neoliberalism is nonetheless absolutely nuanced and definitely illuminating. " -- InMedia Journal * InMedia Journal *
£66.60
New York University Press The Color of Kink
Book SynopsisWinner of the MLA''s 2016 Alan Bray Prize for Best Book in GLBTQ Studies How BDSM can be used as a metaphor for black female sexuality. The Color of Kink explores black women''s representations and performances within American pornography and BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism) from the 1930s to the present, revealing the ways in which they illustrate a complex and contradictory negotiation of pain, pleasure, and power for black women. Based on personal interviews conducted with pornography performers, producers, and professional dominatrices, visual and textual analysis, and extensive archival research, Ariane Cruz reveals BDSM and pornography as critical sites from which to rethink the formative links between Black female sexuality and violence. She explores how violence becomes not just a vehicle of pleasure but also a mode of accessing and contesting power. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, criticTrade ReviewThe Color of Kink breaks entirely new ground in the study of pornography and sexual cultures. Prioritizing the depathologization of black female sexuality and kink cultural practices, this book is a refreshing breakthrough in black feminist and queer theories of sex. Ariane Cruz offers usable theories that unleash the imagination and lubricate the way we think about black sexual politics. -- Mireille Miller-Young,author of A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in PornographyAn exciting contribution to sexuality studies and a much-needed corrective to how we think about BDSM. With beautiful and sharp analysis, Ariane Cruz draws from a dazzling array of sources to parse out the pleasures of abjection that make BDSM an apt metaphor for thinking through black female sexuality. A wonderful, provocative book. -- Amber Jamilla Musser,author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism
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New York University Press Keeping the March Alive
Book SynopsisHow activist groups across the country adapted their strategies and tactics to their local contexts to keep the protests aliveOn January 21, 2017, the day after Trump's inauguration, feminist activists and allies across many progressive movements assembled across the United States to express their displeasure with the new President and his agenda. These marches were unprecedented in size, bringing together as many as 5.3 million Americans, with at least 408 protests in cities and towns across the country. These protests were large and dramatic, and had an outsized impact. But, they do not tell the whole story of this wave of contention. Keeping the March Alive follows thirty-five progressive groups founded after the Women's March across ten cities from Amarillo and Atlanta to Pasadena and Pittsburgh to tell the whole story of how some social movement organizations survive and thrive while others falter. Catherine Corrigall-Brown explains how activists navigate their local context andTrade ReviewPenetrating cross-sectional analysis of how different grassroots networks formed and endured through the challenges of the Trump years. This is a book both for the moment and – given the enduring challenges to American democracy – for the future. * Sidney Tarrow, author of Movements and Parties: Critical Connections in American Political Development *A terrific contribution to our understanding of the strategic choices that affect the ongoing mobilization of social movements. The book provides an impressive model of multi-method research and demonstrates the importance of tactics, coalition work, recruitment techniques, and online technologies in keeping the movement alive. * Suzanne Staggenborg, author of Grassroots Environmentalism *With great nuance and an impressive trove of quantitative and qualitative data, Corrigall-Brown’s deep dive into grassroots activism shows how local contexts fueled and shaped mobilization during an intense period of resistance. Not only an empirically rich and engaging read, Keeping the March Alive is also a welcome theoretical achievement in terms of movement context and survival, tactics, coalitions, and online mobilization. * Alison Dahl Crossley, author of Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution *
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New York University Press Scarred
Book SynopsisPROSE Award Winner for Biography and AutobiographyNamed one of Library Journal's Best Books of 2023Winner, Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Women's NonfictionOffers thought-provoking theories and life-transforming ways to deal with painWhat can we ask of pain? How can we be more creative and courageous in carrying pain in our lives? In this genre-bending work that is equal parts memoir and scholarly criticism, L. Ayu Saraswati provides thought-provoking theories and life-transforming ways to understand pain, specifically in relation to feminism. Arguing that pain is not merely a state we are in, Scarred reframes pain as a transnational feminist object, something that we can carry across international borders. Drawing on her own experience traveling across twenty countries within just over a year, Saraswati aims to bring readers along on her journey so that they might ask themselves, How can I live with pain differently?By using pain as a lens of feminist analysis, Scarred allows us Trade Review"How do we create new conversations with and about pain–conversations that are humane, enchanting, and subversive? How do we cultivate new, life-sustaining relationships with pain–rather than reject, repress, or in other ways deny it? (And why would we even want to do so?) How do we address both the private/personal and the social/systemic/political dimensions of pain? Traveling with and through pain, L. Ayu Saraswati explores these and related questions. She risks the personal, offering invaluable lessons and additional perspectives into the complex entanglement of feminist theory/praxis, healing, embodiment, enchantment, and pain." * AnaLouise Keating, author of The Anzaldúan Theory Handbook *"An intimate tour de force. Scarred is a necessary intervention into the human quest to understand pain and its im/possibilities. Indeed, even more so in this neoliberal world that encourages pain's suppression and elimination. From yoga retreats in Costa Rica, to the feminist practice of ‘gibberish’ in the mountains of Nepal, to experiences of ‘feminist enchantment’ in Ecuador, Iceland, and Catalonia, this book—part memoir, part ethnographic analysis—is a transdisciplinary and transcontinental fete of feminist cultural studies scholarship. Its theoretical insights, display of feminist autoethnographic fieldwork, and writing craft will have a lasting influence." * Devika Chawla, author of Home, Uprooted: Oral Histories of India’s Partition *"Saraswati artfully weaves memoir and auto-ethnography; theorizing and storytelling; and self-reflection and critical analysis to create a beautiful meditation on her feminist journey through pain. This methodologically innovative and theoretically provocative text is a must-read for anyone seeking insight into how we can live with pain differently." * Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, author of Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach *"Drawing on her travels across 20 countries in just over a year, Saraswati, a professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies, shines a feminist light on pain. Her book fuses several modes of storytelling, including memoir, academic theory, ethnography, and criticism, and aims to reframe the reader’s understanding of pain and the female body." * Publishers Weekly *"Theoretically astute yet intensely readable, this book suggests that all of us carry pain—and that everyone also inherently possesses the ability to work with pain instead of fighting against it. The book emphasizes that pain is integral to people; it’s not an incidental feature of circumstances. An exceptional discussion of strategies for processing pain with and through the body." * Library Journal (starred) *"With her latest book, L. Ayu Saraswati offers readers an original, inclusive and intimate examination of pain through a feminist lens. As rigorous as it is readable, Scarred seeks to reframe our relationships to pain, healing, embodiment and enchantment." -- Karla Strand * Ms. Magazine *
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New York University Press Queer Forms
Book SynopsisHow do we represent the experience of being a gender and sexual outlaw? In Queer Forms, Ramzi Fawaz explores how the central values of 1970s movements for women's and gay liberationincluding consciousness-raising, separatism, and coming out of the closetwere translated into a range of American popular culture forms. Throughout this period, feminist and gay activists fought social and political battles to expand, transform, or wholly explode definitions of so-called normal gender and sexuality. In doing so, they inspired artists, writers, and filmmakers to invent new ways of formally representing, or giving shape to, non-normative genders and sexualities. This included placing women, queers, and gender outlaws of all stripes into exhilarating new environmentsfrom the streets of an increasingly gay San Francisco to a post-apocalyptic commune, from an Upper East Side New York City apartment to an all-female version of Earthand finding new ways to formally render queTrade Review"This is the book I have been waiting for: fearless, brilliant, and filled with love for feminist and queer cultural forms. Rather than fetishizing formlessness as the pinnacle of freedom, Ramzi Fawaz assembles and mines a rich and moving archive of feminist and queer cultural forms that have given us tools to practice intimacy, radical vulnerability, friendship, and worldmaking. Queer Forms was written out of a deep affection for the visionary work of feminist and queer cultural producers, offering us a blueprint for allowing feminist and queer worlds to take shape." * Jennifer C. Nash, author of Birthing Black Mothers *"An invigorating work of queer feminist political theory and imagination. Defying the received demand that instances of nonnormative gender identity remain fluid and formless, Ramzi Fawaz dares to present subversive examples of gender and sexual outlaws whose actions track an unfinished project of freedom. In a range of brilliant readings across political movements and cultural texts, he advances new figures of the thinkable and democratic worldmaking that inspire free action in the present." * Linda Zerilli, University of Chicago *"Parting ways with queer theory’s preference for the ephemeral, Queer Forms feels the touch and re-touch of shapeshifting forms as it sets queer studies in new and dynamic relation to its objects in the world. In one of his signal claims, Fawaz uses the materiality of form to rethink the pervasive and privileged association of queerness with formlessness and fluidity. Thus, he argues that feminist and queer ideas become meaningful as they take material shape within the realm of popular cultural production, where they change audiences in ways that neither a pedantic politics nor a moralizing theory can." * Matt Brim, author of Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University *"An inspirational history of queer and feminist cultural politics forged in the 1970s and extending to the 1990s. Ramzi Fawaz brilliantly maps the forms of relationality that feminist, lesbian, and gay communities invented to visualize themselves and their futures. In an argument that is both crystalline and capacious, he has discerned patterns across a wide range of popular cultural texts, objects, and images, and he demonstrates how radical change has been—and can be—imagined and enacted. Queer Forms is generously both history and manifesto. It calls on us to ask with each other how we want to see our future take shape." * David J. Getsy, author of Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender *"With Queer Forms, Ramzi Fawaz has examined gender and sexual formlessness illustrated by queer and feminist film, literature and visual culture. This 'shapeshifting' allows for greater evolution, authenticity and intimacy for all." -- Karla Strand * Ms. Magazine *"Including detailed footnotes, a thorough bibliography, and illustrative images, this volume will interest and engage those working in the field of women's and gender studies." -- R. Stone (Mt. St. Joseph University) * CHOICE *
£66.60
New York University Press Gilded Suffragists
Book SynopsisNew York City's elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolutionIn the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their namesAstor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and the likecarried enormous public value. These women were the media darlings of their day because of the extravagance of their costume balls and the opulence of the French couture clothes, and they leveraged their social celebrity for political power, turning women's right to vote into a fashionable cause. Although they were dismissed by critics as bored socialites trying on suffrage as they might the latest couture designs from Paris, these gilded suffragists were at the epicenter of the great reforms known collectively as the Progressive Era. From championing education for women, to pursuing careers, and advocating for the end of marriage, these women were engaged with the swirl of change that swept through the sTrade Review"Setting the record straight on the driving forces in the early-20th-century fight for women's suffrage . . . Neuman counters the popular opinion that these women were merely bored socialites trying on suffrage as they might the latest couture designs from Paris," and she makes a solid case . . . Neuman concisely explains how thesegildedwomen have been airbrushed out of history, resented by those who felt exploited, but thankfully, they succeeded, and women vote today because of them." * Kirkus Reviews *"This flowing account of women, whose financial contributions, celebrity, style, and innovative strategies revitalized a cause and changed history, will be welcomed by all readers." * Library Journal *"First impressions, 'that unconscious cue that forms a feeling or opinion.' Fashion, style, dress, all non-verbal signals to society about ones social status, occupation or heritage. Dr. Neuman brilliantly explores how the doyennes of Americas elite used their wardrobe and homes to lure a movement and promote an ideology. These political socialites made the Red Carpet their runway for the cause of womens suffrage and promote a fashionable trend under the label 'Votes for Women Campaign.'" -- Norine Fuller,Executive Director, The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, FIDM"Imagine, if you will, you've managed an invitation to a society event in Gilded Age Manhattan. In her compelling study of personality and social power, Johanna Neuman introduces you to the women in the room, all fashionable, most wealthy beyond imagination, and yet all politically powerless. These are not the women we think of as leaders in the fight for women's right to vote, yet here they are in this fascinating study, dressed to the nines, disarming to the patriarchy, and determined. Both socialites and activists, they shaped an age when fashion and celebrity became weapons of radical change." -- Marc Pachter,Director Emeritus, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution"In this fast-paced and important book, Johanna Neuman reminds us of the enormous mobilizations--the rallies and speeches and campaignsthat women of all classes engaged in to build one of the most consequential social movements in American history. Elite women from New York City, Neuman emphasizes, played a central role in these mobilizations. They entered the political fray at considerable risk and used their resources, influence and cultural capital to move the nation towards equal voting rights." -- Sven Beckert,author of Monied Metropolis"With its rollicking narratives of determined personalities and rancorous barbs, Gilded Suffragists makes the story of winning woman suffrage encompass the several determined and super-wealthy New York women whose leadership, social cachet and fashionable presence injected new liveliness and power into the movement at crucial junctures." -- Nancy F. Cott,Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University
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New York University Press Feminist Manifestos
Book SynopsisA wide-reaching collection of groundbreaking feminist documents from around the worldFeminist Manifestos is an unprecedented collection of 150 documents from feminist organizations and gatherings in over 50 countries over the course of three centuries. In the first book of its kind, the manifestos are shown to contain feminist theory and recommend actions for change, and also to expand our very conceptions of feminist thought and activism. Covering issues from political participation, education, religion and work to reproduction, violence, racism, and environmentalism, the manifestos together challenge simplistic definitions of gender and feminist movements in exciting ways. In a wide-ranging introduction, Penny Weiss explores the value of these documents, especially how they speak with and to each other. In addition, an introduction to each individual document contextualizes and enhances our understanding of it. Weiss is particularly invested in how communities work together toward Trade ReviewFeminist Manifestos provides an impressive and unprecedented archive of feminist activism. This rich compendium includes feminist petitions, manifestos, resolutions, charters and declarations from fifty countries, starting in 1642 and ending in 2017. Each selection is accompanied by informative introductions. Ive been waiting for a book like this and cant wait to assign it in my courses -- Amrita Basu,Author of Violent Conjunctures in Democratic IndiaThis inspiring collection is breathtaking in its originality and daring in its premise. Reading the words collectively authored when feminists come together in struggle conveys the passion that inspires activism. Feminists thinking together in these manifestos provide hopeful and energizing answers to the question of what feminism is, challenging the categories and waves into which such variety is often awkwardly packaged. -- Myra Marx Ferree,Author of Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics In Global PerspectiveThis extensive, rich, and diverse anthology of collective feminist declarations is a vital source for understanding the long, global history of feminism. -- Estelle B. Freedman,Author of No Turning Back and The Essential Feminist Reader
£35.15
New York University Press Male Femininities
Book SynopsisInnovative essays that explore how men perform femininity and what femininity looks like without womenWhat counts as male femininity? Is it simply men behaving in effeminate ways or is it the absence of masculinity? Male Femininities presents a nuanced, critical collection of essays that highlight the extent to which male femininities are neither an imitation of femaleness nor an emptying of masculinity. These innovative essays focus on both gay and straight men, and transmasculine and genderqueer people in their construction and performance of femininity, thereby revealing the possibilities that open up when we critically examine femininity without women. Male Femininities asks, What does femininity look like for men?The contributorshighly regarded scholars and rising starscover a range of topics, including drag queens, cosmetic enhancements, trans fertility, and gender-non-conforming childhoods. Male Femininities illuminates what happens wheTrade Review"Rigorously and playfully complicating its core concepts, Male Femininities takes a sociological tour through the spaces where male bodies and male subjectivities encounter, embrace, disavow, and inhabit the feminine. Expansive in its empirical and theoretical scope, this book is a must-have for scholars and students of gender studies." * Jane Ward, author of The Tragedy of Heterosexuality *"Male Femininities explores the political potential of gender boundary crossing and encourages readers to see gender as distinct from sex and sexuality. Focusing on what happens when social rules are broken, each chapter reveals the variety of spaces in which gender can look different from what we might expect." * Kristen Barber, author of Styling Masculinity *"Kudos to the editors for bringing together such engaging work – including compelling first-person narratives and theoretically- and historically-grounded ethnographic research – that illustrates a range of male femininities in action." * Wendy Simonds, author of Hospital Land USA *
£73.80
New York University Press Embodied Avatars
Book SynopsisHow black women have personified art,expression,identity, and freedom through performanceWinner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or cultureWinner, 2016 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, presented by the American Society for Theatre ResearchWinner, 2016 Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship in African American theater, drama, and/or performance studies, presented by the American Society for Theatre ResearchTracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Uri McMillan contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self-objectification, transforming themselves into art objects. In doing so, these artists raised new ways to ponder the intersections of art, performance, and black female embodiment.McMillan reframes the conceTrade Review"Uri McMillans magisterial debut book engages while naming a two-century-long tradition of black womens performance art in the United States, intervening in the problematic racialization and gendering of particular art historical traditions buttressed by the presumed absence of black womens aesthetic and political enactments." * Theatre Journal *"Uri McMillan's magisterial debut book engages while naming a two-century-long tradition of black women's performance art in the United States...Part of the greatness of this book is its complicated engagement with racialized, gendered, and sexualized objecthood as method, the risk-taking practices whereby the historically unfree recalculate the possibilities objecthood for smuggling in liberatory alternatives." * Theatre Journal *"Embodied Avatarsdestabilizes the boundaries between art, objecthood, and survival within the last two centuries [....] Readers are left with the reverberating echoes of not only the black women artists profiled, but the resonances of their multiple avatars, becoming a fierce atonal chorus. Performing objecthood becomes a transformative human strategy in the face of searing dehumanization. Rather than arguing for another iteration of the human as a salvageable category, McMillans innovative scholarship illuminates a complex and obstinate way of being, a being that strikingly prefers not to." * Women & Performance *"Roll over Joseph Beuys, tell Yves Klein the news! Embodied Avatarsradically disrupts prevailing histories, definitions, and genealogies of performance art by focusing on black women who, over the course of two centuries, sought to turn their degraded bodies into dissident tools of emancipation and social critique. Recognizing the first modern stage of black performativity as the auction block, Uri McMillan reveals how black women turned objectification into objecthood, enabling them to remake, disguise, remold the self into an object of resistance, an embodied nightmare to the American dream. Full of eye-popping analytical turns and thrilling theoretical high wire acts, this book is both brilliant scholarship and a performance to be reckoned with." -- Robin D. G. Kelley,author of Thelonious Monk"Embodied Avatarspresents a sweeping and charismatic investigation of the ways in which Black women have strategically staged versions of 'themselves as modes of public, personal, and critical performance and as interventions in art, expression, identity, identification, and freedom.This vibrant and energetic study of art, performance, and embodiment is far-reaching, profound, lively, and engaging." -- Stephanie Leigh Batiste,author of Darkening Mirrors"Uri McMillan takes us on a journey to unexpected terrain. With powerful alchemy, he reveals how black women performance artists work on multiple registersthrough seduction, trickery, the comfort of the seemingly familiarto enact possibility, or what he theorizes as performance & in the service of a certain type of freedom. Meticulously researched and rigorously theorized, Embodied Avatarsis a model of interdisciplinary scholarship grounded in archival work and impressive textual analysis. This book is certain to forge new paths of inquiry and debate in performance, gender and sexuality studies, and black cultural studies." -- Nicole R. Fleetwood,author of Troubling Vision"AlthoughEmbodied Avatarsis an art historical text, the author displays an admirable dexterity across discipline and epistemologies: the mixture of art history, disability studies, object-oriented ontology, and discourses of black subjectivity is deft and, at times, dazzling." * QED *"Uri McMillans Embodied Avatars is a masterfully multilayered exposition of black womens performance art from the nineteenth century to the present. McMillan not only centers black women within traditional and feminist performance art, but also challenges black hegemonic ideas about objectification in performance." * Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Performing Objects 1 1. Mammy Memory: The Curious Case of Joice Heth, the Ancient Negress 23 2. Passing Performances: Ellen Craft's Fugitive Selves 65 3. Plastic Possibilities: Adrian Piper's Adamant Self-Alienation 95 4. Is This Performance about You? The Art, Activism, and Black Feminist Critique of Howardena Pindell 153 Conclusion: "I've Been Performing My Whole Life" 197 Notes 227 Index 275 About the Author 283 McMillan_i_283.indd 9 7/30/15 9:04 AM
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