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Book SynopsisCarment and Samy investigate the dynamics of state transitions in fragile contexts, with a focus on states trapped in fragility. They consider fragility’s evolution in trapped countries; in those that move in and out of it; and in those that have exited it, thus taking a major step toward a new theory of the so-called fragility trap.Trade Review“This is an important and original work. Given the evergreen interest in the topic and the countries discussed, it is likely to be widely cited and discussed. It both effectively engages in intellectual brush-clearing within a tangled and overgrown field and links its more streamlined conceptual developments to well-developed case studies that hew closely to the theory.”“One of this book’s many strengths is how Carment and Samy elucidate and convey both analytical and empirical information without relying on jargon, thus making the volume accessible to a wide range of scholars and practitioners. Furthermore, their use of a vast trove of data is expert and original, allowing them to beautifully achieve their primary task: explaining the nature of state fragility, how it is experienced, and how it may be overcome.”“In this volume, David Carment and Yiagadeesen Samy, building on their previous extensive research, offer new insights into the dynamics that ensnare countries in fragility traps and suggest strategies for exiting those traps. This excellently researched book and the authors’ accessible writing style make it of keen interest and relevance for the academic research and foreign policy communities alike.”“Carment and Samy offer a theoretically innovative and empirically rich analysis of the fragility trap. Their insights are a welcome contribution to scholarship on fragile states and, critically, to policy making.”“A lot of research has focused on the causes and correlates of state fragility. This book provides new and important insight into transitions toward resilience. Drawing on cross-national data and case studies, there is so much here to enrich debate, including key implications for policy.”

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Book SynopsisFrom female body building to virtual reality, from cosmetic surgery to cyberpunk, from reproductive medicine to public health policies to TV science programs, this book articulates the key issues concerning the status of the body for feminist cultural studies in a postmodern world.Trade Review"Technologies of the Gendered Body combines a lucid use of theory and an intelligent and entertaining discussion of key cultural practices, it is also a model of generous and engaged feminist theorizing."—Elspeth Probyn, University of Montreal"Balsamo takes us further into cyborg territory than any intelligent book has done. Her surveys provide a surefooted guide to the survival both of womens’ health and feminist politics in many of those new and unfamiliar areas of hi-tech experience that have already, almost unconsciously, become part of our daily lives."—Andrew Ross, New York University"Balsamo’s very thorough exploration of technology’s impact on and redefinition of the gendered body is at the vanguard of an area of study that is just now coming into its own. Her analyses are clear and masterful."—Cathy Schwichtenberg, University of Georgia

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ladies Errant is a brilliant piece of scholarship which makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Ariosto, of early modern representations of gender, and of the ideological dynamics that link gender tightly with other social-political structures. It will be important to anyone interested in questions of gender in the European early modern period."—Albert Russell Ascoli, University of California, Berkeley"A far-reaching and innovative work with important and suggestive revisions of previous notions of errancy and feminine behavior in Renaissance Italy. Ladies Errant succeeds brilliantly in weaving together texts by providing sophisticated theoretical framings that are at once subtle and powerful."—Margaret F. Rosenthal, University of Southern California

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

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Book SynopsisHomeland, country, region, locality, and globalisation: all words whose definitions in turn affect the definition of the word "woman." This title includes essays that discuss women in diverse locales - ranging from Quebec to Beirut.Trade Review“A signal contribution to our current understanding of the gendered politics of national and global economies of desire, labour, capital, and representation. Though the question of woman and/in the nation is not new, it has never before been engaged on such a scale or with such an attentiveness to diverse disciplines, media, and theoretical positions.”—Parama Roy, author of Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India“This is a superb collection, deftly edited and wonderfully argued. Individually, the contributors expand the scope of transnationality studies to include the Middle East and Latin America. The volume as a whole focuses on important analytics: gendered imaginaries in nationalism, regulatory practices, and globablized feminism. The editors’ argument for immanent critique is a useful contribution to thinking and teaching feminism in an international frame.”—Tani E. Barlow, University of WashingtonTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Between Woman and Nation / Norma Alarcon, Caren Kaplan, and Minoo Moallem I. Whose Imagined Community? El desorden, Nationalism, and Chicana/o Aesthetics / Laura Elisa Perez Bloody Metaphors and Other Allegories of the Ordinary / Elspeth Probyn Chicana Feminism: In the Tracks of "The" Native Woman / Norma Alarcon Re-Imagining Chicana Urban Identities in the Public Sphere, Cool Chuca Style / Rosa Linda Fregoso A Guest at the Wedding: Honor, Memory, and (National) Desire in Michel Khleife's Wedding in Galilee / Mary N. Layoun II. The Production of Nationness: Reading Regulatory Practices Seduction and the Ruses of Power / Saidiya Hartman From Nation-Church to Nation-State: Evolving Sex-Gender Relations in Quebec Society / Danielle Juteau Women Between Nation and State in Lebanon / Suad Joseph Relational Positionalities of Nationalisms, Racisms, and Feminisms / Daiva K. Stasiulis Feminism-in-Nationalism: The Gendered Subaltern at the Yucatan Feminist Congresses of 1916 / Emma Perez III. Transnational Subjects of Feminism: Critical Interventions in an Era of Globalization Multicultural Nationalism and the Poetics of Inauguration / Minoo Moallem and Iain A. Boal "Chicana! Rican? No, Chicana Riquena!" Refashioning the Transnational Connection / Angie Chabram-Dernersesian Fabricating Masculinity: Gender, Race, and Nation in a Transnational Frame / Dorinne Kondo Transnationalism, Feminism, and Fundamentalism / Minoo Moallem Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies: Beyond the Marxism/Poststructuralism/Feminism Divides / Caren Kaplan and Inderpal Grewal Works Cited Index Contributors

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Book SynopsisPresents a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century France. Employing psychoanalysis, feminist film theory, and the critical race theory, this book presents an argument that black women historically invoked both desire and primal fear in French men.Trade Review“A cogently argued study of representations of black women in French literature. In locating the Black Venus and the ideologies surrounding and informing her representations at the center of literary and cultural narratives, this book makes significant interventions in nineteenth-century French studies and current race and gender studies.”—Thadious M. Davis, Vanderbilt University“Intellectually rigorous, extremely well written, and solidly arguing against the dated French (and European) conceptualizations of black female sexuality. What a refreshing and much needed addition!”—Marjorie Attignol Salvodon, Connecticut CollegeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Theorizing Black Venus 1 Writing Sex, Writing DIfference: Creating the Master Text on the Hottentot Venus 16 Representing Sarah- Same Difference or No Difference at All? La Vénus hottentote, ou haine au Françaises 32 "The Other Woman": Reading a Body of Difference in Balzac's La Fille aux Yeux d'or 42 Black Blood, White Masks, and Négresse Sexuality in de Pon's Ourika, l'Africaine 52 Black Is the Difference: Identity, Colonialism, and Fetishism in La Belle Dorothée 62 Desirous and Dangerous Imaginations:: The Black Female Body and the Courtesan in Zola's Thérèse Raquin 71 Can a White Man Love a Black Woman? Perversions of Love beyond the Plae in Maupassant's "Boitelle" 86 Bamboulas, Bacchanals, and Dark Veils over Whtie Memories in Loti's Le Roman d'un spahi 91 Cinematic Venus in the Africanist Orient 105 Epilogue 119 Appendix: The Hottentot Venus, or Hatred of Frenchwomen 127 Notes 165 Works Cited 177 Index 185

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Book SynopsisWith a focus on the responses of upwardly-mobile, yet lower-to-middle class urban women to state-sponsored entertainment serials, this title demonstrates how television in India has profoundly shaped women's place in the family, community, and nation, and the crucial role it has played in the realignment of class, caste, religion, and politics.Trade Review“An outstanding work by a brilliant and passionate scholar. Screening Culture, Viewing Politics is a rare jewel. Not only does Mankekar explore a key historical moment in India’s history, but she brings a vibrant feminist political critique to her understanding of the construction of the modern Indian state. This book will become a classic.”—Ann Gray, University of Birmingham“In India, where nothing stands still, least of all, tradition, it is remarkable how the unwavering eye of Purnima Mankekar has studied the ceaseless working and reworking of the gendered anxieties of a nationalized, post-colonial, febrile middle under the flickering light of Doordharshan—India’s state run television. Screening Culture, Viewing Politics is a must for anyone interested in culture in the broadest and most fecund sense of that term.”—E. Valentine Daniel, author of Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence“Purnima Mankekar has crafted a compelling and richly informed account of one of the most difficult of anthropological topics: the power of television to turn local and gendered intimacies into—literally—gripping allegories of national identity. Fusing scholarship and elegance in an exceptionally accessible narrative, she attends to audiences as well as texts. In this way, she provides an exemplary demonstration of how superb ethnography can best disentangle the actual complexities behind the usual cant about modernity, nationalism, and the media.”—Michael Herzfeld, author of Portrait of a Greek ImaginationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Culture Wars 1 Part 1: Fields of Power: The National Television Family 2. National Television and the “Viewing Family” 45 3. “Women-Oriented” Narratives and the New Indian Woman 104 Part II: Engendering Communities 4. Mediating Modernities: The Ramayan and the Creation of Community and Nation 165 5. Television Tales, National Narratives, and a Woman’s Rage: Multiple Interpretations of Draupadi’s “Disrobing” 224 Part III: Technologies of Violence 6. “Air Force Women Don’t Cry”: Militaristic Nationalism and Representations of Gender 259 7. Popular Narrative, the Politics of Location, and Memory 289 Epilogue: Sky Wars 335 Notes 359 Bibliography 395 Index 417

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Book SynopsisSuitable for scholars and students in a range of disciplines, including anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, women's studies, political economy, and Caribbean studies, as well as labour and postcolonial studies, this book presents an ethnography of globalisation positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies.Trade Review“High Tech and High Heels is a treasure trove. Freeman is among a handful of truly original thinkers in the field of social anthropology and she has produced in this book a major contribution to our understanding of the fluid relationship between gender, social class, and culture.”—Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Princeton University“Freeman helps us understand how new forms of labor power are being tapped in old places. This is a penetrating demonstration of the genuine relevance of anthropology to the modern world. It also shows us in what ways change and persistence are subtly interwoven, in a world that is not quite so new as others tell us.”—Sidney Mintz, Johns Hopkins University“What Freeman’s innovative investigation of Barbadian women data-entry workers reveals is that cultural processes—globalization, identity(ies), constructions, consumerism—are informed in no small part by the ways in which paid labor is structured—and restructured. She alerts us to phenomena that should shake us out of our all-too-comfortable dichotomizing habits.”—Cynthia Enloe, Clark UniversityTable of ContentsList of tables, maps, and figures ix Acknowledgments xi 1. Introduction 1 2. Pink-Collar Bajans: Working Class through Gender and Culture on the Global Assembly Line 21 3. Localizing Informatics: Situating Women and Work in Barbados 66 4. Myths of Docile Girls and Matriarchs: Local Profiles of Global Workers 102 5. Inside Multitext and Data Air: Discipline and Agency in the "Open Office" 140 6. Fashioning Femininity and "Professional" Identities: Producing and Consuming Across Formal and Informal Sectors 213 7. Epilogue 253 Notes 263 Bibliography 293 Index 323

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Book SynopsisTalks about gender, ethnicity, and nation in China, as seen through an ethnography of the changing cultural production of the Miao, a minority population.Trade Review“Minority Rules is breathtaking. Combining sophisticated cultural analysis with sharp attention to political economy, Schein illuminates not only the way the Miao have been constructed historically but how they shape their own identities through cultural performances, whether in state theater or for tourists.”—Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Veiled Sentiments and Writing Women’s Worlds“A highly readable exploration of the cultural politics of reform-era China that deserves a broad readership among anthropologists, historians, and those in cultural studies.”—Ann Anagnost, author of National Past-Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern ChinaTable of ContentsIllustrations Preface and Acknowledgments 1 Introduction Part I. Nation / Representation 2 Of Origins and Ethnonyms Contested Histories, Productive Ethnologies 3 Making Minzu: The State, the Category, and the Work 4 Internal Orientalism: Gender and the Popularization of China's Others 5 Reconfiguring the Dominant Part II. Identity and Cultural Struggle 6 Songs for Sale: Spectacle from the Mao to Market 7 Scribes, Sartorial Acts, and the State: Calling Culture Back 8 Displacing Subalternity: The Mobile Other 9 Performances of Minzu Modernity 10 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOffers an innovative interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. This book examines representations of "native" Indian women and shows how these representations were deployed to advance notions of Indian self-rule as well as to defend British imperialism.Trade Review“En-Gendering India is a lucid and intelligent study of the play of gender and sexuality in Indian nationalism. Sangeeta Ray cautions against the perception that Hindu nationalism is no longer relevant in an era of globalization and migration, arguing that it has simply entered a more expansive phase. This is an important and timely book.”—Jennifer Sharpe, University of California, Los Angeles"A significant contribution to postcolonial and feminist studies. Ray’s scholarship is rigorous and persuasive, combining theoretical depth and erudition with original and nuanced textual analysis and interpretation."—Rajagopolan Radhakrishnan, University of MassachusettsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Gender and Nation: Woman Warriors in Chatterjee’s Devi Chaudhurani and Anandamath 2. Woman as “Suttee”: The Construction of India in Three Victorian Narratives 3. Woman as Nation and a Nation of Women: Tagore’s The Home and the World and Hosain’s Sultana’s Dream 4. New Woman, New Nations: Writing the Partition in Desai’s Clear Light of Day and Sidhwa’s Cracking India Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisOffers an interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian literary texts - primarily novels - produced between 1857 and 1947, this title examines representations of 'native' Indian women.Trade Review“En-Gendering India is a lucid and intelligent study of the play of gender and sexuality in Indian nationalism. Sangeeta Ray cautions against the perception that Hindu nationalism is no longer relevant in an era of globalization and migration, arguing that it has simply entered a more expansive phase. This is an important and timely book.”—Jennifer Sharpe, University of California, Los Angeles"A significant contribution to postcolonial and feminist studies. Ray’s scholarship is rigorous and persuasive, combining theoretical depth and erudition with original and nuanced textual analysis and interpretation."—Rajagopolan Radhakrishnan, University of MassachusettsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Gender and Nation: Woman Warriors in Chatterjee’s Devi Chaudhurani and Anandamath 2. Woman as “Suttee”: The Construction of India in Three Victorian Narratives 3. Woman as Nation and a Nation of Women: Tagore’s The Home and the World and Hosain’s Sultana’s Dream 4. New Woman, New Nations: Writing the Partition in Desai’s Clear Light of Day and Sidhwa’s Cracking India Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisIn contrast with scholarship on women and gender in the modern period, the author asserts that the rise of the absolute state, with its centralising and unifying tendencies, could actually increase women's economic, social, and legal opportunities and allow them to thrive in corporate organisations such as the guild.Trade Review“Fabricating Women offers a richly textured and much-needed look at the experience of working women that will enhance our understanding of the old regime in a variety of ways. This well-grounded portrait of one area of history simultaneously throws light on far broader issues, such as the role of the state, the working of the economy, and the legal status and economic opportunities of women.”—Gail Bossenga, author of The Politics of Privilege: Old Regime and Revolution in Lille“A welcome contribution to the literature on women’s work in preindustrial Europe. This is so well placed in the economic and social history of the period that it will become a classic among the books that define the age.”—Daryl M. Hafter, author of European Women and Preindustrial Craft"Crowston establishes herself in the forefront of scholars working on the eighteenth-century French economy, in a book that rightfully belongs on the shelf next to those of Thomas Brennan, Jean-Marc Moriceau, and Steven Kaplan." -- James B. Collins * Enterprise & Society *"Crowston provides fascinating insights into the lifestyle of the most prosperous dressmakers, and her book will delight students of material culture." -- Pamela Pilbeam * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables List of Abreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Making the Goods 1. Seamstresses and the Culture of Clothing in Old Regime France 2. From Mending to modes: Trade Hierarchies and the Labor Market 3. Tools, Techniques, and Commercial Practices Part Two: Making the Guilds 4. The Royal Government, Guilds, and the Seamstresses of Paris, Normandy, and Provence 5. The Tailors and the Seamstresses: Corporate Privilege, Gender, and the Law 6. Women’s Corporate Self-Government: The Administration of the Parisian Seamstresses’ Guild Part Three: Making the Mistresses 7. Career Paths in the Seamstresses’ Trade: From Apprenticeship to Mistress-ship 8. Marriage, Fortune, and Family: The World of the Mistress Seamstress 9. Making the New Century: The Seamstresses, fin et suite Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisProvides an examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. This book reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements came to symbolise the heart of colonialism in India. It exposes how this image has distracted from working conditions, low wages, and coercive labour practices enforced by the patronage system.Trade Review“Piya Chatterjee presents an innovative ethnography of female tea plantation workers through a kaleidoscope of drama, personal narrative, labor history review, and the interrogations of her subjects. A Time for Tea addresses issues of colonial and postcolonial power structures, transnational flows, subaltern history, labor relations, and feminist ethnography. Tea does not taste the same after one has read this strikingly original book.”—Kirin Narayan, author of Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching“This is a finely layered, theoretically astute and informed cultural and historical account of a tea plantation in India. The ethnography is not content to address localized politics and culture; its importance lies in the way in which it reveals the global and political dimensions of local practices of gendered labor.”—Inderpal Grewal, author of Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel“A Time for Tea says quite a bit about the endurance of women pluckers on a tea plantation in West Bengali called Sarah’s Hope Tea Estate. . . . The world drawn in A Time for Tea is the “other” world of tea, beyond ladies lounging in gauzy gowns upon velvet Victorian chaises, sipping Darjeeling, and munching cucumber sandwiches. . . . Indeed, this is not your typical coffee table tea book. . . . A Time for Tea is an argument for Fair Trade tea -- and more. . . . It ‘stirs the conscious, creates dissonance.’ And perhaps it also will produce a new perspective when you savor your next cuppa pai mu tan.” -- Donis W. Ford * Tea - A Magazine *“A detailed history of the labor structure on tea plantations. . . . Interesting. . . . Her use of language, rich in metaphor and allusion. indicates a deep-rooted empathy for these women, which is almost contrary to scholarly detachment. . . . A multifaceted understanding of a complex socioeconomic system.” -- Chitrita Banerji * Gastronomica *“Piya Chatterjee’s A Time for Tea is more than a skillful and reflective ethnography of women’s labor in the tea industry in India. Her analysis of the fieldwork she conducted on an Indian plantation is contextualized through a cultural and material history of the tea industry in India, which is intertwined with the politics and economics of empire, the impact of capitalism, and the shifting production and performance of gender, class, and consumption.” -- Suzanne Franzway and Mary Margaret Fonow * Signs *"A highly readable ethnography. . . . This book wears its theory lightly but is deftly and often ingeniously written. . . . [A] meditative and reflective work. . . ." -- Kamala Visweswaran * American Historical Review *"A tour de force of intimate reflection on the embodied histories and gendered fetishisms at work on a postcolonial plantation. . . . A Time for Tea holds lessons for a remarkable array of audiences, not only in its theoretically astute, well-researched argument but also in a passionate commitment to the poetics and politics of writing in solidarity with subaltern voices without presuming to speak them. . . . Wonderful. . . . Piya Chatterjee is a remarkable, visionary writer. A Time for Tea is an erudite and powerful book that should be read widely and closely." -- Sharad Chari * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi 1. Alap 1 2. Travels of Tea, Travels of Empire 20 3. Cultivating the Garden 51 4. The Raj Baroque 84 5. Estates of a New Raj 115 6. Discipline and Labor 168 7. Village Politics 235 8. Protest 289 9. A Last Act 325 Appendix 327 Glossary 333 Notes 335 Bibliography 383 Index 411

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Book SynopsisExamines how Chicana literature - its narrative techniques, stylistic conventions, plot dilemmas and resolutions - interrogate the multiple ways space and social relations constitute each other.Trade Review“Nowhere does the critical spatial imagination flourish more creatively than in Chicana literature. And nowhere is it more effectively expressed than in Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies. With her own sense of political and cultural urgency, Mary Pat Brady explores the multiple spatial and sexual borderlands of Chicana life, opening up a passionate and transgressive geography that sizzles with insight.”—Edward W. Soja, author of Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions"Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies is an outstanding work that reveals the connection between Chicana bodies, literary texts, and geopolitical space. It offers a conceptual framework based on theories of spatialization that provide a greater understanding of what Chicana writing does and why it is significant to our understanding of contemporary U.S. culture. Nobody else does what Mary Pat Brady does so well here."—Rafael Pérez-Torres, author of Movements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins”An important contribution to literary studies and spacial critique. In a masterful weave of spatial memories, Extinct Lands and Temporal Geographies unravels the contested national imagery of la frontera.”—Mary Romero, coeditor of Latino/a Popular CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Razing Arizona 2. Double-Crossing la Frontera Nómada 3. Intermarginalia: Chicana/a Spatiality and Sexuality in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa and Terri de la Peña 4. Sandra Cisneros’s Contrapuntal “Geography of Scars” 5. “Against the Nostalgia for the Whole and the One”: Cherrie Moraga, Aztlán, and the Spatiality of Memory 6. “War Again, or Somesuch”: Narrating the Scale and Scope of Narcospatiality Conclusion: Spelunking through the Interstices Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the ways popular protests are experienced and remembered by those who participate in them. This book focuses on the roles of two young women, Nana and Laura, in uprisings in Argentina. It offers discussions of resistance and the combined effects of globalization, neoliberal economic policies, and political corruption in Argentina.Trade Review”Contentious Lives dares to present the lives of two women who lived hard times but at a certain moment plunged into popular movements and then had to bear the consequences of their participation, to make sense of what they had done, and to fashion new relations with other people. The two women have entrusted Javier Auyero with stories few others would want to see in print: stories of suffering, indiscretion, indecision, bitterness, regret, and passion.”—Charles Tilly, Columbia University”Javier Auyero proves that you can go home again—and that with the proper experience elsewhere you can see more than you would have noticed if you had never left. Returning to his native Argentina as a sympathetic, well trained observer of political conflict, he shows us how intense personal lives and passionate political participation connect with each other. Auyero tells stories of Argentinian political and economic crises from an entirely fresh perspective.”—Viviana Zelizer, Princeton UniversityTable of Contents5. The Lived 1993: The Coming and Making of the Explosion 115 6. The Lived Sixteenth: The Feast and the Remains of the Riot 137 7. Nana’s Life: “Thirty-six Years of Crap” 153 8. Contested Memories 172 Conclusions: Ethnography and Recognition 191 Appendix. On Fieldwork, Theory, and the Question of Biography 201 Notes 209 References 217 Index 229 About the Series ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: On the Intersection of Individual and Collective Biographies and Protest 1 Part I. The Picketer 15 1. The Day before the Pueblada: A Town on the Edge 29 2. Laura’s Life: “How Did I Fall So Far?” 48 3. Being-in-the-Road: Insurgent Identities 60 4. After the Road: Contentious Legacies 89 Part II. The Queen of the Riot 101

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Book SynopsisFirst complete study of the1898 Dutch National Exhibition of Women's Labor, its international relevance, and how the Exhibition's representations of the colonies, gender, class, and ethnicity influenced political culture in the NetherlandsTrade Review“A unique study based on a virtual treasury of archival materials, Transforming the Public Sphere touches on many of the most important issues of major concern today to historians of feminism and women’s history.”—Marilyn Boxer, coauthor of Connecting Spheres: European Women in a Globalizing World, 1500 to the Present“Despite the veritable explosion of historical work on exhibitionary culture in the last decade, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of women in organizing the transnational spectacles that dominated the culturescapes of imperial modernity . . . . Transforming the Public Sphere . . . offers an important corrective to this oversight.”—Antoinette Burton, from the introductionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Abbreviations xi Introduction / Antoinette Burton 1 1. Feminist and the Public Sphere 9 2. An illustrated Women’s Conference 25 3. A Panorama in the Dunes 67 4. The Exhibition Experience 111 5. Colonialism on Display 193 6. Exhibition in Print and Visual Impressions 171 7. Creating a Counterpublic 193 8. After the Summer 215 Notes 225 List of References 271 Index 297 Illustrations fall after pages 116 and 148

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

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Book SynopsisEssays on the relationship between temporatlity and feminism that focus on the political and philosophical ramifications of being future oriented.Trade Review“Elizabeth Grosz has long been recognized as one of the most astute commentators on feminism, continental philosophy, and cultural studies. Renowned for her clarity and rigor, she has a well-deserved reputation as a major feminist philosopher. In Time Travels Grosz manages to surpass her already magisterial standards and produce a tour de force of originality. Here, Grosz finds her own voice and argues for a new theory of time and life. This is an exciting, inspired, and inspiring book.”—Claire Colebrook, author of Gilles Deleuze“What does it mean to introduce time into thought? Bergson formulated this question in the nineteenth century; Deleuze took it up again in postwar France. In her philosophical travels through legal studies, new technologies, and debates in Darwinism, Elizabeth Grosz brilliantly pursues its punch for us today: What would it mean for feminism to include an evolutionary materialism of time, and what would it mean for it to become an ineliminable part of a ‘new Bergsonism’ of the twenty-first century?”—John Rajchman, author of The Deleuze ConnectionsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. Nature, Culture, and the Future 1. Darwinism and Feminism: Preliminary Investigations into a Possible Alliance 13 2. Darwin and the Ontology of Life 35 3. The Nature of Culture 43 Part II. Law, Justice, and the Future 4. The Time of Violence: Derrida, Deconstruction, and Value 55 5. Drucilla Cornell, Identity, and the “Evolution” of Politics 71 Part III. Philosophy, Knowledge, and the Future 6. Deleuze, Bergson, and the Virtual 93 7. Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, and the Question of Ontology 113 8. The Thing 131 9. Prosthetic Objects 145 Part IV. Identity, Sexual Difference, and the Future 10. The Time of Thought 155 11. The Force of Sexual Difference 171 12. (Inhuman) Forces: Power, Pleasure, and Desire 185 13. The Future of Female Sexuality 197 Notes 215 References 241 Index 253

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Book SynopsisHow grassroots organizations tap into global networks and how gender plays into transnational political practices, addressing these issues through extended ethnographic researchTrade Review“Jennifer Bickham Mendez provides a nuanced ethnography that does not simply assert the gendered intricacies of local and global political-economic processes but artfully traces their unfolding in the contemporary Nicaraguan context. She reveals the organizational and discursive possibilities presented through the international feminist and human rights movements and also elucidates the constraints and tensions across local political hierarchies of organized labor, state bureaucracies, and a national/regional women’s movement fractured along class lines. Mendez’s analysis of MEC and the wider regional Network provides a powerful lens on the range of tactics, coping mechanisms, and organizational strategies currently being enacted on a stage that is simultaneously local, regional, and global.”—Carla Freeman, author of High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean“This is a compelling case study of a women’s NGO organizing women workers in a Free Trade Zone in post-Sandinista Nicaragua. Jennifer Bickham Mendez’s account reveals the challenges faced by a feisty NGO trying to survive and maintain its autonomy—from capital, the state, and the good intentions of international donors. It is a testimony to the strengths, but also the fragility, of civil society in today’s struggling democracies.”—Jane S. Jaquette, coeditor of Women and Democracy: Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe“From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras is written on the basis of ethnographic research and the author’s personal involvement over the course of a decade; it is therefore a historical chronicle, an investigation into the operations of a unique women’s organization, and a personal testimony.” -- Patricia Fernández-Kelly * Signs *“A must-read text for anyone interested in contemporary women’s movements, labor organizing, and issues of transnationalism and globalization in Latin America and elsewhere.” -- Lynn Stephen * American Ethnologist *“This well-written, well-organized and accessible book is exemplary in its ability to locate a case study within a larger context and reveal the connections between day-today organizing and the transnational links and multiple global spheres stimulated by globalization.” -- Norma Stoltz Chinchilla * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAbout the Series vi Preface vii Acknowledgments xi 1. "Just Us and Our Worms": The Working and Unemployed Women's Movement, "Maria Elena Cuardra" 1 2. Oppositional Politics in Nicaragua and the Formation of MEC 25 3. Gendering Power and Resistance in an Era of Globalizations 59 4. "Autonomous but Organized" : MEC's Search for an Organizational Structure 79 5. "Rompiendo Esqruemas" : MEC's Political Strategies and the Free Trade Zone 133 6. MEC and the Postsocialist State : Democracy, Rights, and Citizenship under Globalization 177 7. Resistance Goes Global : Power and Opposition in an Age of Globalization 205 Notes 227 Abbreviations and Acronyms 239 Bibliography 241 Index 267

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Book SynopsisA classic study of Zapotec women weavers and their reactions to global capitalismTrade Review“After it first appeared, Zapotec Women quickly became a must-read in the fields of gender and Latin American studies, and today it can fairly be regarded as a classic. This thoroughly revised edition is a tour de force. Not content merely to add a few pages at the beginning or end of chapters, Lynn Stephen has rethought several key conceptual frameworks and reconsidered the changes experienced in Teotitlán del Valle over the past twenty years.”— Matthew C. Gutmann, editor of Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America“How wonderful that this second edition of Zapotec Women is available! So well written and blessedly lacking in jargon, it comprehensively explains the evolution of women’s cooperatives in Teotitlán, including their interactions with the Mexican state and NGOs, and the effects of transnational forces like NAFTA and increased migration to the United States.”—Jean Jackson, coeditor of Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America“In Zapotec Women, Lynn Stephen presents a complex analysis of stereotypically strong women. She situates women’s independence, forged in daily life, in Zapotec tradition that is framed by state-sponsored images of ‘Mexican Indians’ and market transformations that have regional, national, and international dimensions. Stephen’s compelling analysis illuminates class, ethnic, and gender relations that are unexpected and contingent. She renders these social processes beautifully, leaving the reader with an appreciation of individual lives in the context of global transformation.”—Patricia Zavella, coeditor of Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader“This book is a light in the darkness. The author is a brilliant weaver who, with great expertise, intertwines the fine threads of gender, class, ethnicity, nationality, age, and art, rendering a magnificent tapestry. A rigorous anthropology of Zapotec women in a socio-historical context, the work also surprises by contemplating the aesthetic component of the sarapes created by the artisans of Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca.”—Eli Bartra, editor of Crafting Gender: Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean“[M]ore than seventy pages have been added to the new edition [of Zapotec Women], including new narrative, new analysis, new photographs, new tables, and new reference matter. . . . Ultimately, this new book is richer because it too has a history. In fact, Zaptoec Women, is now positioned as an unfolding story, a serial account of the world created by Zapotec women and North American anthropologists that will change, grow, shrink, and expand as long as people are involved in an exchange of political, economic, and cultural goods and ideas. Given the violent summer of 2006 and the unresolved political conflicts in Oaxaca, there is a renewed urgency to read this volume.” -- Patrick McNamara * The Americas *Table of ContentsList of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Ethnicity and Class in the Changing Lives of Zapotec Women 15 2. Kinship, Gender, and Economic Globalization 46 3. Six Women’s Stories:Julia, Cristina, Angela, Alicia, Imelda, and Isabel 63 4. Setting the Scene: The Zapotecs of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca 92 5. Contested Histories: Women, Men, and the Relations of Production in Teotitlan, 1920—1950s 122 6. Weaving as Heritage: Folk Art, Aesthetics, and the Commercialization of Zapotec Textiles 152 7. From Contract to Co-op: Gender, Commercialization, and Neoliberalism in Teotitlan 200 8. Changes in the Civil-Religious Hierarchy and Their Impact on Women 231 9: Fiesta. The Gendered Dynamics of Ritual Participation 250 10. Challenging Political Culture:Women’s Changing Political Participation in Teotitlan 282 After Words: On Speaking and Being Heard 324 Notes 333 Glossary of Spanish and Zapotec Terms 339 Bibliography 343 Index 371

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Book SynopsisA history of women's political organizing and state formation in Mexico before and during the populist regime of Cardenas, challenging assumptions that all Mexican women were conservative and anti-revolutionaryTrade Review“Jocelyn Olcott’s book combines impressive original research, lucid exposition, and keen insight. Three valuable case studies offer broad comparative analysis informed by telling details, examples, and anecdotes. Above all, the book successfully blends innovative women’s history with big, old, unresolved questions about popular mobilization, state-building, and the rise and fall of Cardenismo.”—Alan Knight, author of The Mexican Revolution“This book is extraordinarily important as a work of feminist political history. It’s a breathtakingly ambitious tour of Mexican women’s movements and feminist politics that will stand as a model for future histories of Latin American feminism and state formation.”—Heidi Tinsman, author of Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973“This book is a valuable addition to the growing literature gendering Mexico's revolution. Its depth and theoretical grounding raise important comparisons for scholars of history and politics throughout the Americas.” -- Ann S. Blum * Gender & History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Daughters of La Malinche: Gender and Revolutionary Citizenship 1 1. “A Right to Struggle”: Revolutionary Citizenship and the Birth of Mexican Feminism 27 2. Laboratory of Cardenismo: Constructing Michoacán’s Postrevolutionary Edifice 60 3. Educators and Organizers: Populating the National Women’s Movement 93 4. “All the Benefits of the Revolution”: Labor and Citizenship in the Comarca Lagunera 123 5. “Her Dignity as a Woman and Her Sovereignty as Citizen”: Claiming Revolutionary Citizenship 159 6. “All Are Avowed Socialists”: Political Conflict and Women’s Organizing in Yucatán 201 Conclusions and Epilogue: The Death of Cardenismo 232 Notes 245 Bibliography 287 Index 321

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Book SynopsisArgues for a reading practice that accounts for the queerness of temporality, for the way past, present, and future time appear out of sequence and in dialogue in our thinking about history and texts. This title presents New Historicist accounts of sexual identity that claim to respect historical proprieties.Trade Review“Carla Freccero’s beautifully written book offers a strong, persuasive, and new way of reading queer early modern texts. Refusing the historicist view that would draw fierce lines between premodern and modern, Freccero asks her reader to consider premodern texts as intervening in the logic of their times and persisting within modernity in spectral form. Her intense engagement with queer early modern scholarship is enriched and disoriented by her insistence that contemporary practices of ‘queering’ are haunted by their unfinished and unfinishable past. Her singular and deft way of moving between contemporary culture and politics and the animated remnants of premodern texts offers a brilliant model for contemporary scholarship and a truly innovative turn in queer studies.”—Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor at the University of California, Berkeley“Had he lived in the sixteenth century, André Breton would have proclaimed: ‘Art will be queer or it will not be.’ Such is the enduring truth we obtain from Carla Freccero’s powerful, inventive, indeed genial readings of the early modern canon. A brilliant work showing us what we can do with what we call the past.”—Tom Conley, author of The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France“Queer/Early/Modern is an important and exciting contribution to the literature on representations of sexuality and subjectivity in early modern literature and culture. The book will be of interest to anyone who has been engaged in the project of ‘queering’ the Renaissance and beyond not simply as a way of finding precursors for modern lifestyles and identities but as a political gesture meant to resist essentialist critiques that attempt to simplify the complexity of (queer) identities by anchoring them in rigid notions of history. Freccero is not afraid to make bold claims, and she has the historical knowledge and theoretical prowess to support them convincingly.” -- David LaGuardia * Journal of the History of Sexuality *“If the academy were a spa, then Queer/Early/Modern would be its hot-rock massage. At once painful and invigorating, this brilliant book destroys heteronormative historiography with a force belied only by its exquisitely beautiful prose.” -- Madhavi Menon * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments iv 1. Prolepses: Queer/Early/Modern 1 Part One. Past, Present 2. Always Already Queer (French) Theory 13 3. Undoing the Histories of Homosexuality 31 4. Queer Nation: Early/Modern France 51 Part Two. Futures 5. Queer Spectrality 69 Notes 105 Bibliography 149 Index 173

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Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated history of the pin-up since its birth more than 150 years ago reveals how the development of the pin-up is intimately connected to the history of feminismTrade Review“Pin-Up Grrrls is a funny, sexy, political take on the pin-up. In this book, women flaunt their sexuality, use images of themselves to their own ends, and remake the pin-up genre in endlessly creative ways.”—Susie Bright, author of Mommy’s Little Girl: On Sex, Motherhood, Porn, and Cherry Pie“Pin-ups that women love? That they create? Yes! In her brilliantly vibrant debut book, Maria Elena Buszek gives a lucid, rich, and thorough account of a nineteenth- and twentieth-century history in which women employ the power of erotic imagery to celebrate themselves. From the writing to the reproductions, Pin-up Grrrls is eye-opening.”—Joanna Frueh, performance artist and author of Swooning Beauty: A Memoir of Pleasure“Pin-Up Grrrls is a great read, and its treatment of the evolution of iconic images of women over the last two centuries will interest students of popular media, women's studies, and feminism as well as art history.” -- Leigh Ann Wheeler * Journal of American History *“Pin-Up Grrrls is an exhaustive chronicle of the pin-up from its stage, street, and screen origins to the postmodern feminist pin-up, and its storied relationship to feminism in the United States. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in feminism, history, art history, feminist art, histories of sexuality, or popular culture.” -- Chadwick Roberts * Journal of Popular Culture *“Pin-Up Grrrls is ultimately a tale of the feminist reclamation of female sexuality as much as it is the story of the pin-up. With great historical consciousness and painstaking research—and without falling back on tired old stereotypes of pro- or antiporn feminists—Buszek stakes a thoroughly convincing claim that feminism is a political movement that has always championed women’s sexual agency and that is sure to appeal to grrrls and womyn alike.” -- Rachel Fudge * Women's Review of Books *“Buszek not only provides us with an encyclopedic historical entomology of the pin-up but participates in a potent ongoing reaction to Clement Greenberg’s Adorno-esque pre-World War II condemnation of kitsch. . . . From the slippery issues of pornutopia and female fetishism, from The Bridge Across My Pussy to queer monsters, she-devils and fierce funny feminism, there can be few books as usefully provocative as this for an undergraduate or graduate class on feminism, popular culture and art history.” -- Jonathan Zilberg * Leonardo Reviews *“Buszek takes us on an academic journey through 150 years of saucy, socially aware images and their repercussions on the mainstream. For those of us who thought that reclaiming sexuality in the name of feminism was a fairly new concept, this is a great introduction to the revolutionary beauties of the past.” -- Catherine Plato * Curve *“Buszek’s academic background in art history allows her to convincingly dispute the notion of the pin-up as merely objectifying women, and her selection of archival images is a feast for the eyes. . . . BUST readers will still no doubt devour this intergenerational exposé of how strong women asserted themselves, their whole selves—including those lovely legs, bodacious busts, and devilish derrières.” -- Amanda McCorquodale * Bust *“By revealing that feminists from all eras have celebrated their sexuality through the pin-up, Buszek leaves readers with renewed respect for female sex icons such as Bettie Page, Sandra Bernhardt, and Lydia Thompson. Pin-up Grrrls also helps put today’s newfound pop culture obsession with pin-up culture . . . in context.” -- Jessalynn Keller * Nylon *“In Pin-Up Grrrls, feminist art scholar Buszek optimistically traces the development of feminism and the assertion of female sexuality in the public sphere through a well-illustrated focus on a 150-year history of the female pin-up. . . . Through meticulous research, presented in a chronological narrative structure, Buszek demonstrates the complex interaction between the pin-up and the historical contexts in which it articulates female sexuality.” -- Hillegonda C. Rietveld * Feminist Review *“Using the pin-up as an interpretative lens for probing complicated issues of women's sexual agency, Buszek offers a fascinating and lively . . . history of the American women's movement and its engagement with popular culture. Pin-Up Grrrls features ninety-four figures, many of which appear for the first time in print and provide ample visual support for her argument. . . . Buszek has tackled an enormous subject here, and her book should interest anyone looking for an overview of historical developments in feminist thought and female representation.” -- Marlis Schweitzer * American Quarterly *“With Pin-Up Grrrls, Buszek provides a unique blend of art, cultural, and women’s histories that will engage a wide and diverse audience.” -- Rachel Epp Buller * Woman's Art Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Defining/Defending the "Feminist Pin-Up" 1 1. Representing "Awarishness": The Theatrical Origins of the Feminist Pin-Up Girl 27 2. New Women for the New Century: Feminism and the Pin-Up at the Fin de Siècle 69 3. The Return of the Theatrical Feminism: Early-Twentieth-Century Pin-Ups on the State, Street, and Screen 115 4. Celebrating the "Kind of Girl Who Dominates": Film Fanzines and the Feminist Pin-Up 142 5. New Frontiers: Sex, Women, and World War II 185 6. Pop Goes the Pin-Up: New Roles and Readings in the Wake of Women's Liberation 232 7. Our Bodies/Ourselves: Pin-Ups in the Wake of Women's Liberation 268 8. From Womyn to Grrrls: The Postmodern Feminist Pin-Up 311 Conclusion/Commencement 355 Notes 365 Bibliography 403 Index 437

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Book SynopsisAn innovative analysis of how ideas of Indian identity negotiated within the Indian diaspora in Trinidad affect cultural identities "back home" in India.Trade Review“Tejaswini Niranjana listens to the tones and echoes of Indianness in the Caribbean and elaborates a South–South genealogy that obligates us to reconceive the cultural geography of modernity. From the ‘moral status of the coolie woman’ in British colonialist and Indian nationalist discourses to the figure of the ‘Indian woman’ in Afro-Trinidadian calypso, Hindi cinema musics, and female chutney-soca performances, she pronounces the gendered rhythms of popular music as subaltern cultural politics.”—Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics“Tejaswini Niranjana’s fine achievement in Mobilizing India is to have given shape to a compelling way of rethinking the conceptual agenda for the comparative study of the Third World.”—David Scott, author of Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment“Mobilizing India. . . is a sophisticated, well-written, and engaging book which does indeed-as promised- provide a model for comparative cultural research across the global South. Those interested in Caribbean cultural studies, in the development of popular music in postcolonial societies, in identity and gender politics in a multiracial polity, will all find much that is valuable and original in this book.” -- Bridget Brereton * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *“Niranjana . . . has written a sophisticated study of women, diasporic dynamics, and ethnic identity in Indo-Trinidadian society, using popular music as a lens though which to view these. . . . Her book is certainly recommended reading for students and scholars of South Asian diasporas and Caribbean studies.” -- Peter Manuel * Ethnomusicology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Note on Usage ix Introduction 1 1. “The Indian in Me”: Studying the Subaltern Diaspora 17 2. “Left to the Imagination”: Indian Nationalism and Female Sexuality 55 3. “Take a Little Chutney, Add a Touch of Kaiso”: The Body in the Voice 85 4. Jumping out of Time: The “Indian” in Calypso 125 5. “Suku Suku What Shall I Do?”: Hindi Cinema and the Politics of Music 169 Afterword: A Semi-Lime 191 Notes 223 Bibliography 253 Index 267

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Book SynopsisAn innovative analysis of how ideas of Indian identity negotiated within the Indian diaspora in Trinidad affect cultural identities "back home" in India.Trade Review“Tejaswini Niranjana listens to the tones and echoes of Indianness in the Caribbean and elaborates a South–South genealogy that obligates us to reconceive the cultural geography of modernity. From the ‘moral status of the coolie woman’ in British colonialist and Indian nationalist discourses to the figure of the ‘Indian woman’ in Afro-Trinidadian calypso, Hindi cinema musics, and female chutney-soca performances, she pronounces the gendered rhythms of popular music as subaltern cultural politics.”—Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics“Tejaswini Niranjana’s fine achievement in Mobilizing India is to have given shape to a compelling way of rethinking the conceptual agenda for the comparative study of the Third World.”—David Scott, author of Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment“Mobilizing India. . . is a sophisticated, well-written, and engaging book which does indeed-as promised- provide a model for comparative cultural research across the global South. Those interested in Caribbean cultural studies, in the development of popular music in postcolonial societies, in identity and gender politics in a multiracial polity, will all find much that is valuable and original in this book.” -- Bridget Brereton * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *“Niranjana . . . has written a sophisticated study of women, diasporic dynamics, and ethnic identity in Indo-Trinidadian society, using popular music as a lens though which to view these. . . . Her book is certainly recommended reading for students and scholars of South Asian diasporas and Caribbean studies.” -- Peter Manuel * Ethnomusicology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Note on Usage ix Introduction 1 1. “The Indian in Me”: Studying the Subaltern Diaspora 17 2. “Left to the Imagination”: Indian Nationalism and Female Sexuality 55 3. “Take a Little Chutney, Add a Touch of Kaiso”: The Body in the Voice 85 4. Jumping out of Time: The “Indian” in Calypso 125 5. “Suku Suku What Shall I Do?”: Hindi Cinema and the Politics of Music 169 Afterword: A Semi-Lime 191 Notes 223 Bibliography 253 Index 267

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Book SynopsisMexican American author Josie Méndez-Negrete's memoir of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father.Trade Review“Las hijas de Juan breaks new ground in the literature of Chicano/a autobiography by taking on the shameful issue of paternal incest at the same time that it demonstrates the process of healing through speaking, writing, and remembering. This book is the genuine song of the survivor, and the narrator’s personal story is also a political reality of the Chicano/a and Latino/a community, an ugly beast fed on silence that must be both contained and confronted. More than anything, Las hijas de Juan shows us the imperative need to speak the secrets that, unfortunately, bind and damage so many mujeres in our communities.”—Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Latino Studies“Las hijas de Juan is a searching and searingly honest portrayal of struggle, survival, and corage! This is a woman’s story that has lessons for the entire community.”—Louis Gerard Mendoza, author of Historia: The Literary Making of Chicana and Chicano History“To tell this story took an inordinate amount of courage; to have survived it makes me marvel at the power of the human spirit. As a reader, one feels deeply grateful for the privilege of being granted into its confidence. Josie Méndez-Negrete writes that the healing is not in the telling, but perhaps it resides in us, the listeners. May this story, then, travel far.”—Sandra Cisneros“Las Hijas de Juan is a tale of female triumph, justice and hope. . . . To its great merit this true story, written in the tone of a novel, exposes unflinchingly some of the tragic realities faced by many children worldwide who end up living as illegal immigrants and unaccounted for. It breaks the silence about incest within a poor Mexican-American family with such brutal candor that it has been hailed as a feminist survival story. By depicting the deep prejudices that persist in so many Mexican males, it candidly lays bare the cruelty and discrimination faced by their women, especially those who remain in limbo on both sides of the border picking up the pieces for their errant men.” -- Georgina Jiménez * Latin American Review of Books *Table of ContentsAbout the series xi Acknowledgments xiii Author's Note xv Prologue: Sin padre 1 México lindo y querido: Dearest and beloved Mexico 3 A donde iran los muertos? Quién sabe a donde iran: Where will the dead go? Who knows where they will go 41 Buscando abrigo y no lo encontraran: Searching for shelter they will never find 81 Que lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido: So far from the land that gave me birth 139 She kept her head in a jar by the door: Mantuvo su cabeza el el jarrón junto a la puerta 159 Epilogue: Purging the Skeletons, Bone by Bone 185 Songs Quoted in Text 191 Glossary 201

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers introductions to the work of fifteen avant-garde American women filmmakers.Trade Review“Women’s Experimental Cinema is an invaluable resource for students and devotees of experimental cinema and feminist film, fields defined by remarkable films and a dearth of critical attention. It brings to light the social and political roots and cultural impact of women’s experimental film, and the specific female, feminine, and feminist practices of an exceptional group of women artists.”—Alexandra Juhasz, editor of Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video“This definitive volume on U.S. women’s experimental cinema fills a significant and long-lamented gap within film studies, and in feminist film studies in particular. Together, these essays offer us a richly nuanced picture not only of women’s experimental film but of avant-garde filmmaking in general from the 1940s to the present.”—Sharon Willis, author of High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Film“A truly remarkable collection on feminist independent cinema, this is one of the most comprehensive and well thought out books on the subject to appear to date. . . . [T]he book moves from strength to strength to create a collection that is as cohesive as it is authoritative. . . . Well illustrated with behind-the-scenes production shots and frame blow ups from the films themselves, and written by some of the most gifted critics working in the field today, this collection is both deeply felt and rigorously detailed. Essential. All readers, all levels.” -- W. W. Dixon * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Women’s Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks / Robin Blaetz 1 Swing and Sway: Marie Menken’s Filmic Events / Melissa Ragona 20 Different/Same/Both/Neither: The Polycentric Cinema of Joyce Wieland / Paul Arthur 45 Evacuating Visual Fields, Layering Auditory Frames: Signature, Translation, Resonance, and Gunvor Nelson’s Films / Chris Holmlund 67 Moving and Moving: From Minimalism to Lives of Performers / Noel Carroll 89 Eye/Body: The Cinematic Paintings of Carolee Schneemann / M.M. Serra and Kathryn Ramey 103 “Absently Enchanted”: The Apocryphal, Ecstatic Cinema of Barbara Rubin / Ara Osterweil 127 Amy Greenfield: Film, Dynamic Movement, and Transformation / Robert A. Haller 152 Barbara Hammer: Lyrics and History / Chuck Kleinhans 167 Chick Strand’s Experimental Ethnography / Maria Pramaggiore 188 Amnesis Time: The Films of Marjorie Keller / Robin Blaetz 211 In the Ruins of the Image: The Work of Leslie Thornton / Mary Ann Doane 239 Sounds, Intervals, and Startling Images in the Films of Abigail Child / Maureen Turim 263 Peggy’s Playhouse: Contesting the Modernist Paradigm / William C. Wees 290 Su Friedrich: Breaking the Rules / Janet Cutler 312 The Experimental “Dunyementary”: A Cinematic Signature Effect / Kathleen McHugh 339 Women’s Experimental Cinema: Some Pedgogical Challenges / Scott Macdonald 360 Appendix: Film Distribution 383 Bibliography 385 Contributors 401 Index 405

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers introductions to the work of fifteen avant-garde American women filmmakers.Trade Review“Women’s Experimental Cinema is an invaluable resource for students and devotees of experimental cinema and feminist film, fields defined by remarkable films and a dearth of critical attention. It brings to light the social and political roots and cultural impact of women’s experimental film, and the specific female, feminine, and feminist practices of an exceptional group of women artists.”—Alexandra Juhasz, editor of Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video“This definitive volume on U.S. women’s experimental cinema fills a significant and long-lamented gap within film studies, and in feminist film studies in particular. Together, these essays offer us a richly nuanced picture not only of women’s experimental film but of avant-garde filmmaking in general from the 1940s to the present.”—Sharon Willis, author of High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Film“A truly remarkable collection on feminist independent cinema, this is one of the most comprehensive and well thought out books on the subject to appear to date. . . . [T]he book moves from strength to strength to create a collection that is as cohesive as it is authoritative. . . . Well illustrated with behind-the-scenes production shots and frame blow ups from the films themselves, and written by some of the most gifted critics working in the field today, this collection is both deeply felt and rigorously detailed. Essential. All readers, all levels.” -- W. W. Dixon * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Women’s Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks / Robin Blaetz 1 Swing and Sway: Marie Menken’s Filmic Events / Melissa Ragona 20 Different/Same/Both/Neither: The Polycentric Cinema of Joyce Wieland / Paul Arthur 45 Evacuating Visual Fields, Layering Auditory Frames: Signature, Translation, Resonance, and Gunvor Nelson’s Films / Chris Holmlund 67 Moving and Moving: From Minimalism to Lives of Performers / Noel Carroll 89 Eye/Body: The Cinematic Paintings of Carolee Schneemann / M.M. Serra and Kathryn Ramey 103 “Absently Enchanted”: The Apocryphal, Ecstatic Cinema of Barbara Rubin / Ara Osterweil 127 Amy Greenfield: Film, Dynamic Movement, and Transformation / Robert A. Haller 152 Barbara Hammer: Lyrics and History / Chuck Kleinhans 167 Chick Strand’s Experimental Ethnography / Maria Pramaggiore 188 Amnesis Time: The Films of Marjorie Keller / Robin Blaetz 211 In the Ruins of the Image: The Work of Leslie Thornton / Mary Ann Doane 239 Sounds, Intervals, and Startling Images in the Films of Abigail Child / Maureen Turim 263 Peggy’s Playhouse: Contesting the Modernist Paradigm / William C. Wees 290 Su Friedrich: Breaking the Rules / Janet Cutler 312 The Experimental “Dunyementary”: A Cinematic Signature Effect / Kathleen McHugh 339 Women’s Experimental Cinema: Some Pedgogical Challenges / Scott Macdonald 360 Appendix: Film Distribution 383 Bibliography 385 Contributors 401 Index 405

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Book SynopsisA collection that challenges the binary conception of conservative religion versus progressive secularism by highlighting the existence of multiple secularisms.Trade Review“The greatest strengths of [Secualarisms] are its thoughtful, incisive theoretical grounding and its inclusion of multiple minority reports which taken together challenge conventional secularism theorizing as it has developed.” - Jonathan Seitz, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory“Do you think you already know what secularism means? One virtue of this book is that the authors examine several modes and dimensions of secularism in different places, always closely attentive to the specific religious practices with which it is imbricated. Another is that the essays, taken together, loosen up the political imagination, allowing us to think outside the two-slot system—‘either secularism or theocracy’—which has such debilitating effects on political thought. An admirable collection of essays.”—William E. Connolly, author of Capitalism and Christianity, American Style“The greatest strengths of Secualarisms are its thoughtful, incisive theoretical grounding and its inclusion of multiple minority reports which taken together challenge conventional secularism theorizing as it has developed.” -- Jonathan Seitz * Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Times Like These / Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini 1 Part 1. Secular Interventions 1. (Un)Veiling Feminism / Afsaneh Najmabadi 39 2. Secularism and Laicism in Turkey / Taha Parla and Andrew Davison 58 3. Women Between Community and State: Some Implications of the Uniform Civil Code Debates / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan 76 4. Other Moderns, Other Jews: Revisiting Jewish Secularism in America / Laura Levitt 107 5. Disappearances: Race, Religion, and the Progress Narrative of U.S. Feminism / Tracy Fessenden 139 6. Late Secularism / Robert J. Baird 162 7. What Tangled Webs We Weave: Science, Secularism, and Religion in Contemporary India / Banu Subramaniam 178 Part 2. Secular Relations: Micronarratives 8. Secularizing the Pain of Footbinding in China: Missionary and Medical Stagings of the Universal Body / Angela Zito 205 9. Ghostly Appearances / Geeta Patel 226 10. "The Quick, the Dead, and the Yet Unborn": Untimely Sexualities and Secular Hauntings / Molly McGarry 247 Part 3. Public Alternatives 11. Toward Secular Diaspora: Relocating Religion and Politics / Tyler Roberts 283 12. Feminisms and Secularisms / Kathleen Sands 308 13. Continuity or Rupture? An Argument for Secular Britain / Ranu Samantrai 330 Bibliography 353 Contributors 387 Index 391

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Book SynopsisMoves social movement theory beyond simplistic understandings of social-justice activism as either right-wing or left-wing, and urges a more open-minded approach to the role of religion in social movements. This title examines the interplay of Biblical scripture, gender, and nationalism in Christian Right and Native American activism.Trade Review“Smith contributes a shrewdly innovative and theoretically ambitious analysis that transforms scholarship about progressive organizing and politics with her new insights on Native women organizing and theory, Christian Right arguments, and the intersections of ideas and interests that often are overlooked in western history.” - Myla Vicenti Carpio, Western Historical Quarterly“Native Americans and the Christian Right is an exciting and important project, one that can be improved by further research and the collection of more stories and accounts of effective change. It is written to encourage that very enterprise.” - Laurel C. Schneider, Contemporary Sociology“Native Americans and the Christian Right is an indispensible treatise on the radical relevance of indigenous criticism to interdisciplinary theory and all social movements. . . . Smith notably advances indigenous feminism not simply by reading ‘gender’ in indigenous politics but by engaging both indigenous and settler politics with indigenous feminist methodologies of alliance work for social change.” - Scott Lauria Morgensen, Signs“Smith has produced a brilliant, complex, and deeply original work that will stand as an important contribution to fields as wide-ranging as Native American studies, social movement theory, political science, religious studies, and gender theory.” - Tisa Wenger, Journal of Church and State“[A] fascinating and complex argument. . . . Native Americans and the Christian Right is a brave, provocative book. . . . Together with—as well as apart from—the political agenda of the book, Smith’s work presents a powerful analysis of social formation and identity articulation. She persuasively illustrates the ways contemporary Christian and Native groups alike are constituted by parties withvarying and variable interests that may align with those of unlikely allies in surprising and telling ways.” - Greg Johnson, Journal of the American Academy of Religion“In refusing to accept the typical explanations for the motivations of both groups, Smith enriches and challenges the reader to probe deeper into these “unlikely alliances” and offers up ideas for political activism, as well as new ways to understand the deeper issues of race and gender within social andpolitical activism. Her work challenges scholars to re-think how they construct identity, Native peoples, gender, social activism, Native Christianity, and sovereignty. This book is clearly aimed at future scholar-activists who want to envision a new form of progressive organizing that goes beyond the current model, but it is also immensely useful to scholars of Native, religious, and gender studies who are thinking about different theoretical models for how to address complicated alliances and identities within their own work.” - Angela Tarango, Religious Studies Review“Not many scholars could even imagine bringing together Native women activists with the Christian Right, but Andrea Smith manages to do so with the sort of intellectual integrity that has become a hallmark of her work. Even when I disagree with her conclusions I can’t help but get swept up in the sheer joy and hope of the journey she imagines.”—Robert Warrior, author of The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction“This is an amazing book that debunks many widely held beliefs about identity, Native activism, evangelical Christianity, sovereignty, and organizing. Andrea Smith’s analysis flows from race, to gender, to class, to nation, to income, to sexuality, to religion, and back to race in such a way that crude approximations of ideology or other notions of identity or consciousness are laid to rest. She has written an energetic and complicated work that will become an instant classic in Native studies, ethnic studies, religion, and feminist and gender studies.”—Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California“Native Americans and the Christian Right is an exciting and important project, one that can be improved by further research and the collection of more stories and accounts of effective change. It is written to encourage that very enterprise.” -- Laurel C. Schneider * Contemporary Sociology *“Native Americans and the Christian Right is an indispensible treatise on the radical relevance of indigenous criticism to interdisciplinary theory and all social movements. . . . Smith notably advances indigenous feminism not simply by reading ‘gender’ in indigenous politics but by engaging both indigenous and settler politics with indigenous feminist methodologies of alliance work for social change.” -- Scott Lauria Morgensen * Signs *“[A] fascinating and complex argument. . . . Native Americans and the Christian Right is a brave, provocative book. . . . Together with—as well as apart from—the political agenda of the book, Smith’s work presents a powerful analysis of social formation and identity articulation. She persuasively illustrates the ways contemporary Christian and Native groups alike are constituted by parties with varying and variable interests that may align with those of unlikely allies in surprising and telling ways.” -- Greg Johnson * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *“In refusing to accept the typical explanations for the motivations of both groups, Smith enriches and challenges the reader to probe deeper into these “unlikely alliances” and offers up ideas for political activism, as well as new ways to understand the deeper issues of race and gender within social and political activism. Her work challenges scholars to re-think how they construct identity, Native peoples, gender, social activism, Native Christianity, and sovereignty. This book is clearly aimed at future scholar-activists who want to envision a new form of progressive organizing that goes beyond the current model, but it is also immensely useful to scholars of Native, religious, and gender studies who are thinking about different theoretical models for how to address complicated alliances and identities within their own work.” -- Angela Tarango * Religious Studies Review *“Smith contributes a shrewdly innovative and theoretically ambitious analysis that transforms scholarship about progressive organizing and politics with her new insights on Native women organizing and theory, Christian Right arguments, and the intersections of ideas and interests that often are overlooked in western history.” -- Myla Vicenti Carpio * Western Historical Quarterly *“Smith has produced a brilliant, complex, and deeply original work that will stand as an important contribution to fields as wide-ranging as Native American studies, social movement theory, political science, religious studies, and gender theory.” * Tisa Wenger Journal of Church and State *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xxxvii Introduction: Why Rearticulation Matters 1 1. Set the Prisoners Free: The Christian Right and the Prison Industrial Complex 9 2. "The One Who Did Not Break His Promises": Native Nationalisms and the Christian Right 74 3. Without Apology": Native American and Evangelical Feminisms 115 4. Unlikely Allies: Rethinking Coalition Politics 200 5. Native Women and Sovereignty: Beyond the Nation-State 255 Conclusion 272 Appendix 1. A Brief Map of Christian Right and Native American Organizing 277 Appendix 2. Interviewees and Dates of Interviews 291 Bibliography 293 Index 351

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Book SynopsisOffers an interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France's leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of New Wave has concentrated on the film-makers and their films, this book focuses on the social and cultural turbulence of the cinema's formative years, from 1957 to 1962.Trade Review“Thanks to this unwavering translation, Geneviève Sellier’s bracing exposé has stripped the New Wave of its stylish attire to reveal an unappealing male body. Vigilant and determined, she has trolled a sea of French criticism to net her evidence.”—Dudley Andrew, Yale University“This remarkable book will change readers’ view of New Wave cinema. Geneviève Sellier approaches this key movement in French cinema from an original perspective, developing a nuanced yet incisive argument about the links between masculinity, auteurism, and filmic representations.”—Ginette Vincendeau, author of Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in ParisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: The Aesthetic Doxa on the New Wave 1 1. A New Generation Marked by the Emergence of Women 11 2. Cinephilia in the 1950s 22 3. Auteur Cinema: An Affair of State 34 4. Contrasting Receptions 41 5. The Precursors 70 6. Between Romanticism and Modernism 95 7. Nostalgia for a Heroic Masculinity 128 8. The Women of the New Wave: Between Modern and Archaic 145 9. Jeanne Moreau: Star of the New Wave and Icon of Modernity 184 10. Brigitte Bardot and the New Wave: An Ambivalent Relationship 199 11. The Independent Filmmakers of the Left Bank: A "Feminist" Alternative 210 Conclusion: The New Wave's Legacy: "Auteur Cinema" 221 Appendix One: Box Office Results 225 Appendix Two: The Press 227 Notes 231 Bibliography 245 Index 253

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Book SynopsisPresents an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France's leading feminist film scholars. This title argues that gender relations and the construction of sexual identities were the primary subject of New Wave cinema.Trade Review“Thanks to this unwavering translation, Geneviève Sellier’s bracing exposé has stripped the New Wave of its stylish attire to reveal an unappealing male body. Vigilant and determined, she has trolled a sea of French criticism to net her evidence.”—Dudley Andrew, Yale University“This remarkable book will change readers’ view of New Wave cinema. Geneviève Sellier approaches this key movement in French cinema from an original perspective, developing a nuanced yet incisive argument about the links between masculinity, auteurism, and filmic representations.”—Ginette Vincendeau, author of Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in ParisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: The Aesthetic Doxa on the New Wave 1 1. A New Generation Marked by the Emergence of Women 11 2. Cinephilia in the 1950s 22 3. Auteur Cinema: An Affair of State 34 4. Contrasting Receptions 41 5. The Precursors 70 6. Between Romanticism and Modernism 95 7. Nostalgia for a Heroic Masculinity 128 8. The Women of the New Wave: Between Modern and Archaic 145 9. Jeanne Moreau: Star of the New Wave and Icon of Modernity 184 10. Brigitte Bardot and the New Wave: An Ambivalent Relationship 199 11. The Independent Filmmakers of the Left Bank: A "Feminist" Alternative 210 Conclusion: The New Wave's Legacy: "Auteur Cinema" 221 Appendix One: Box Office Results 225 Appendix Two: The Press 227 Notes 231 Bibliography 245 Index 253

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Book SynopsisPunctuation offers playful interpretations of punctuation in relation to aesthetics, performance, and experimental art.Trade Review“[Brody’s] sophisticated and diverting links in Punctuation: Art, Politics and Play opens up writing not only as both performance and notation (as an instructional element concerning the dramaturgical aspects of a text) but also the political effects of the use of hyphenation as an element of arts. The surprising and promising aspect of the study makes readers aware of the very fact that politics are found exactly inside the l’art pour l’art conception of punctuation marks. . . . Punctuation is a valuable contribution to the repoliticisation of art through performance.” - Margarete Jahrmann, Leonardo“Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play is a good book, a clever book, and an exciting book. The singularity of Brody’s approach, the verve and creativity of her readings, and the work’s interdisciplinarity—particularly its much-needed liaisons among textual, queer, and performance studies—are significant strengths.” - Kevin Bourque, GLQ“[D]azzling in its inter-disciplinarity and most delightful to read. Jennifer DeVere Brody has produced a study on performance art which is itself a performance, a play on punctuation which defamiliarizes the mundane accompaniment to communication, which is punctuation, and reinvents its components as significant cultural markers.” - Kathryn Southworth, English“This is the book that puts the ‘pun’, not to mention the ‘punk’, in ‘punctuation.’ Jennifer DeVere Brody focuses on punctuation as performance, highlighting its role in novels, poetry, art, dance and racial and gender politics. She plays with full stops, semicolons and apostrophes all the while, including a chapter in the form of a dialogue during which one character talks largely in smileys. The result is a book of spirited cultural criticism, not a monograph on linguistics.” - Raphael Salkie, Times Higher Education Supplement“DeVere Brody’s work is undeniably vanguard in a subject that has long ceased to be edgy and new. She should be applauded for her vigor and bravery. It’s a hefty dose of insight and perspective for the prescriptivist in all of us.” - Jo Ristow, Feminist Review blog”A puncturing of semantic space, Jennifer DeVere Brody’s Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play performs at every turn a subversive politics that celebrates the margins as places where the real deal goes down. . . . Hats off to Brody for taking us someplace new.” - Gregory Kirk Murray, Rain Taxi“Here is a book that earns the right to the spaces between its sumptuously smart words. Here is a book that pays attention to the ‘minor’ detail of punctuation in ways that percolate with questions pertaining to history, subject formation, ethnicity, racialization, technology, authorship, physiology, philosophy, aesthetic value, the social, the political, and more (to pile up the commas). Lacing her arguments with humor as well as insight, Jennifer DeVere Brody here tracks punctuation’s contradictory performances across a number of times and places. She offers close readings of artists and authors who deploy punctuation pointedly in a variety of mediums, amplifying the mark of the mark, the score of the score, the thrust or lean of the emphaticals that prop our points. Here is a book that doubles as a stage upon which the understudied finally gets to strut and fret with an embodied wit, critical grace, and socially relevant verve.”—Rebecca Schneider, Brown University“In Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play, Jennifer DeVere Brody productively bridges both performance criticism and literary analysis through a consideration of punctuation. To be certain, this is a bold and innovative move that compels us to consider what is too often taken for granted: how punctuation performs. Brody’s book is decidedly interdisciplinary, as she analyzes a diverse array of performance texts always mindful of the intersections of art, politics, and play. As a result, Brody brings important insight to issues of race, gender, and performance through this examination of punctuation. Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play is a most ambitious and significant work that will certainly have a cross-disciplinary impact.”—Harry J. Elam Jr., Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University“Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play is a good book, a clever book, and an exciting book. The singularity of Brody’s approach, the verve and creativity of her readings, and the work’s interdisciplinarity—particularly its much-needed liaisons among textual, queer, and performance studies—are significant strengths.” -- Kevin Bourque * GLQ *“[Brody’s] sophisticated and diverting links in Punctuation: Art, Politics and Play opens up writing not only as both performance and notation (as an instructional element concerning the dramaturgical aspects of a text) but also the political effects of the use of hyphenation as an element of arts. The surprising and promising aspect of the study makes readers aware of the very fact that politics are found exactly inside the l’art pour l’art conception of punctuation marks. . . . Punctuation is a valuable contribution to the repoliticisation of art through performance.” -- Margarete Jahrmann * Leonardo Reviews *“[D]azzling in its inter-disciplinarity and most delightful to read. Jennifer DeVere Brody has produced a study on performance art which is itself a performance, a play on punctuation which defamiliarizes the mundane accompaniment to communication, which is punctuation, and reinvents its components as significant cultural markers.” -- Kathryn Southworth * English *“DeVere Brody’s work is undeniably vanguard in a subject that has long ceased to be edgy and new. She should be applauded for her vigor and bravery. It’s a hefty dose of insight and perspective for the prescriptivist in all of us.” -- Jo Ristow * Feminist Review blog *“This is the book that puts the ‘pun’, not to mention the ‘punk’, in ‘punctuation.’ Jennifer DeVere Brody focuses on punctuation as performance, highlighting its role in novels, poetry, art, dance and racial and gender politics. She plays with full stops, semicolons and apostrophes all the while, including a chapter in the form of a dialogue during which one character talks largely in smileys. The result is a book of spirited cultural criticism, not a monograph on linguistics.” -- Raphael Salkie * Times Higher Education *”A puncturing of semantic space, Jennifer DeVere Brody’s Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play performs at every turn a subversive politics that celebrates the margins as places where the real deal goes down. . . . Hats off to Brody for taking us someplace new.” -- Gregory Kirk Murray * Rain Taxi *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix For(e)thought: Pre/Script: gesturestyluspunctum 1 1. Smutty Daubings 27 2. Belaboring the Point . . . 62 3. Hyphen-Nations 85 4. "Queer" Quotation Marks 108 5. Sem;erot;cs ; Colon:zat:ons : Exclamat!ons ! 134 Post\Script: Cyberpunktuations? 156 Notes 169 Bibliography 191 Index 207

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Book SynopsisA look at how the modern woman was envisioned in postrevolutionary Mexican popular culture and how she figured in contestations over Mexican national identity.Trade Review“This interesting volume approaches a very important topic: the changes in visual culture relating to middle- and upper-class women in Mexico during the years immediately following the violence of the Mexican revolution. . . . [T]his introduction to the topic of changing visual culture related to women in a time of political, economic, and social change is well conceived and fascinating.” - Linda B. Hall, The Americas“With Imagining la Chica Moderna, Joanne Hershfield has made another important contribution to our understanding of popular culture in post-revolutionary Mexico.” - Stephanie Mitchell, Social History“Joanne Hershfield’s intriguing monograph, Imagining la Chica Moderna reminds readers of an era following the 1910-1920 Mexican revolution in which multiple cultural experiments emerged. . . . Imaging La Chica Moderna is as insightful as it is suggestive.” - Marjorie Becker, Journal of Social History“Richly illustrated, this book provides a smart, engaging and accessible study of Mexican modernity through the lens of popular visual culture.” - Freya Schiwy, Bulletin of Latin American Research“[A] detailed and comprehensive study.” - Georgina Jimenez, Latin American Review of Books“[S]everal aspects of Hershfield’s study recommend it for classroom use. . . . [She] writes clearly, carefully avoids jargon and cumbersome theoretical digressions, and assumes no prior knowledge of Mexican history. Her book might be productively used in any class that seeks to explore the relationship between visual culture and social life.” - Jocelyn Olcott, American Historical Review“Imagining la Chica Moderna is an engaging book that both demonstrates the role of gender in fashioning the Mexican nation and underscores the primacy of popular culture in that enterprise.”—Ann Marie Stock, editor of Framing Latin American Cinema: Contemporary Critical Perspectives“Joanne Hershfield’s book will become an essential reference guide for unpacking la chica moderna as a central trope of postrevolutionary Mexican society. By demonstrating the ways that ‘the modern girl’ was simultaneously cosmopolitan and native, Hershfield makes sense of the seemingly out-of-place phenomenon of the ‘Mexican flapper’ and her multiple meanings within the project of Mexican nationhood.”—Eric Zolov, author of Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture“[A] detailed and comprehensive study.” -- Georgina Jimenez * Latin American Review of Books *“[S]everal aspects of Hershfield’s study recommend it for classroom use. . . . [She] writes clearly, carefully avoids jargon and cumbersome theoretical digressions, and assumes no prior knowledge of Mexican history. Her book might be productively used in any class that seeks to explore the relationship between visual culture and social life.” -- Jocelyn Olcott * American Historical Review *“Joanne Hershfield’s intriguing monograph, Imagining la Chica Moderna reminds readers of an era following the 1910-1920 Mexican revolution in which multiple cultural experiments emerged. . . . Imaging La Chica Moderna is as insightful as it is suggestive.” -- Marjorie Becker * Journal of Social History *“Richly illustrated, this book provides a smart, engaging and accessible study of Mexican modernity through the lens of popular visual culture.” -- Freya Schiwy * Bulletin of Latin American Research *“This interesting volume approaches a very important topic: the changes in visual culture relating to middle- and upper-class women in Mexico during the years immediately following the violence of the Mexican revolution. . . . [T]his introduction to the topic of changing visual culture related to women in a time of political, economic, and social change is well conceived and fascinating.” -- Linda B. Hall * The Americas *“With Imagining la Chica Moderna, Joanne Hershfield has made another important contribution to our understanding of popular culture in post-revolutionary Mexico.” -- Stephanie Mitchell * Social History *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 3 1. Visualizing the New Nation 21 2. En México como en París: Fashioning la Chica Moderna 44 3. Domesticating la Chica Moderna 73 4. Picturing Working Women 102 5. La Moda Mexicana: Exotic Women 127 Conclusion. Imagining "Real" Mexican Women 156 Notes 163 Bibliography 173 Index 195

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Book SynopsisExamines how Muslim women came to represented as invisible, backward, and victimized in the written history of late colonial Bengal. This title argues that their near-invisibility, except as victims, in normative histories of India was central to the consolidation of national identity in the colonial period and beyond.Trade Review“Seeking to correct erstwhile celebratory representations of Muslim women, Visible Histories neither extols the virtues of Muslim womanhood in the late colonial period of Bengal, nor does it seek to redress for their untold stories. Visible Histories’ contribution to colonial historiography is more nuanced.” - Anita Anantharam, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History“Mahua Sarkar’s . . . original and stimulating study. . . . Sarkar also seeks to enlarge notions of women’s ‘agency’ beyond those privileged by liberal feminists.” - Barbara D. Metcalf, Journal of Women’s History“By engaging with existing scholarship, Sarkar draws eclectically on a range of disciplines: sociology, anthropology, history, feminist and gender studies. The book represents historical sociology at its cutting edge by bringing intellectual history into the post-colonial present.” - Durba Ghosh, Social History“. . . Mahua Sarkar’s project . . . marks indeed a welcome and important intervention in postcolonial Indian historiography.” - Rochona Majumdar, Economic & Political Weekly“Visible Histories, Disappearing Women is an analytically insightful, genuinely original work that breaks new ground in South Asian history, gender and women’s studies, postcolonial theory, and historical sociology. One of its strengths is Mahua Sarkar’s insistence that history as a discipline and feminism as a politics have disappeared the Muslim woman as a subject.”—Antoinette Burton, editor of Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History“Mahua Sarkar’s insightful study of Bengali Muslim women’s writings and oral testimonies is not a simple project of reclaiming the history of marginalized subjects. The point of her thoughtful and penetrating analysis is to illuminate the structures of representation—in both official histories and popular memories—that produce the specific ways in which the figure of the Muslim woman becomes visible. Sarkar exposes the nation-centered focus and the liberal-feminist politics that have shaped the specific marginalization of Muslim women in accounts of late colonial Bengal. Hers is ultimately a passionate and nuanced call for a re-orientation of existing scholarship with far-reaching implications for the contours both of historiography and of contemporary politics.”—Mrinalini Sinha, author of Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire“Mahua Sarkar’s project . . . marks indeed a welcome and important intervention in postcolonial Indian historiography.” -- Rochona Majumdar * Economic and Political Weekly *“By engaging with existing scholarship, Sarkar draws eclectically on a range of disciplines: sociology, anthropology, history, feminist and gender studies. The book represents historical sociology at its cutting edge by bringing intellectual history into the post-colonial present.” -- Durba Ghosh * Social History *“Mahua Sarkar’s . . . original and stimulating study. . . . Sarkar also seeks to enlarge notions of women’s ‘agency’ beyond those privileged by liberal feminists.” -- Barbara D. Metcalf * Journal of Women's History *“Seeking to correct erstwhile celebratory representations of Muslim women, Visible Histories neither extols the virtues of Muslim womanhood in the late colonial period of Bengal, nor does it seek to redress for their untold stories. Visible Histories’ contribution to colonial historiography is more nuanced.” -- Anita Anantharam * Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Writing Difference 1 1. The Colonial Cast: The Merchant, the Soldier, the "Writer" (Clerk), Their Lovers, and the Trouble with "Native Women's" Histories 27 2. The Politics of (In)visibility: Muslim Women in (Hindu) Nationalist Discourse 48 3. Negotiating Modernity: The Social Production of Muslim-ness in Late Colonial Bengal 78 4. Difference in Memory 133 Conclusion: Connections 196 Notes 205 Bibliography 287 Index 331

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Book SynopsisPunctuation offers playful interpretations of punctuation in relation to aesthetics, performance, and experimental art.Trade Review“[Brody’s] sophisticated and diverting links in Punctuation: Art, Politics and Play opens up writing not only as both performance and notation (as an instructional element concerning the dramaturgical aspects of a text) but also the political effects of the use of hyphenation as an element of arts. The surprising and promising aspect of the study makes readers aware of the very fact that politics are found exactly inside the l’art pour l’art conception of punctuation marks. . . . Punctuation is a valuable contribution to the repoliticisation of art through performance.” - Margarete Jahrmann, Leonardo“Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play is a good book, a clever book, and an exciting book. The singularity of Brody’s approach, the verve and creativity of her readings, and the work’s interdisciplinarity—particularly its much-needed liaisons among textual, queer, and performance studies—are significant strengths.” - Kevin Bourque, GLQ“[D]azzling in its inter-disciplinarity and most delightful to read. Jennifer DeVere Brody has produced a study on performance art which is itself a performance, a play on punctuation which defamiliarizes the mundane accompaniment to communication, which is punctuation, and reinvents its components as significant cultural markers.” - Kathryn Southworth, English“This is the book that puts the ‘pun’, not to mention the ‘punk’, in ‘punctuation.’ Jennifer DeVere Brody focuses on punctuation as performance, highlighting its role in novels, poetry, art, dance and racial and gender politics. She plays with full stops, semicolons and apostrophes all the while, including a chapter in the form of a dialogue during which one character talks largely in smileys. The result is a book of spirited cultural criticism, not a monograph on linguistics.” - Raphael Salkie, Times Higher Education Supplement“DeVere Brody’s work is undeniably vanguard in a subject that has long ceased to be edgy and new. She should be applauded for her vigor and bravery. It’s a hefty dose of insight and perspective for the prescriptivist in all of us.” - Jo Ristow, Feminist Review blog”A puncturing of semantic space, Jennifer DeVere Brody’s Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play performs at every turn a subversive politics that celebrates the margins as places where the real deal goes down. . . . Hats off to Brody for taking us someplace new.” - Gregory Kirk Murray, Rain Taxi“Here is a book that earns the right to the spaces between its sumptuously smart words. Here is a book that pays attention to the ‘minor’ detail of punctuation in ways that percolate with questions pertaining to history, subject formation, ethnicity, racialization, technology, authorship, physiology, philosophy, aesthetic value, the social, the political, and more (to pile up the commas). Lacing her arguments with humor as well as insight, Jennifer DeVere Brody here tracks punctuation’s contradictory performances across a number of times and places. She offers close readings of artists and authors who deploy punctuation pointedly in a variety of mediums, amplifying the mark of the mark, the score of the score, the thrust or lean of the emphaticals that prop our points. Here is a book that doubles as a stage upon which the understudied finally gets to strut and fret with an embodied wit, critical grace, and socially relevant verve.”—Rebecca Schneider, Brown University“In Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play, Jennifer DeVere Brody productively bridges both performance criticism and literary analysis through a consideration of punctuation. To be certain, this is a bold and innovative move that compels us to consider what is too often taken for granted: how punctuation performs. Brody’s book is decidedly interdisciplinary, as she analyzes a diverse array of performance texts always mindful of the intersections of art, politics, and play. As a result, Brody brings important insight to issues of race, gender, and performance through this examination of punctuation. Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play is a most ambitious and significant work that will certainly have a cross-disciplinary impact.”—Harry J. Elam Jr., Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University“Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play is a good book, a clever book, and an exciting book. The singularity of Brody’s approach, the verve and creativity of her readings, and the work’s interdisciplinarity—particularly its much-needed liaisons among textual, queer, and performance studies—are significant strengths.” -- Kevin Bourque * GLQ *“[Brody’s] sophisticated and diverting links in Punctuation: Art, Politics and Play opens up writing not only as both performance and notation (as an instructional element concerning the dramaturgical aspects of a text) but also the political effects of the use of hyphenation as an element of arts. The surprising and promising aspect of the study makes readers aware of the very fact that politics are found exactly inside the l’art pour l’art conception of punctuation marks. . . . Punctuation is a valuable contribution to the repoliticisation of art through performance.” -- Margarete Jahrmann * Leonardo Reviews *“[D]azzling in its inter-disciplinarity and most delightful to read. Jennifer DeVere Brody has produced a study on performance art which is itself a performance, a play on punctuation which defamiliarizes the mundane accompaniment to communication, which is punctuation, and reinvents its components as significant cultural markers.” -- Kathryn Southworth * English *“DeVere Brody’s work is undeniably vanguard in a subject that has long ceased to be edgy and new. She should be applauded for her vigor and bravery. It’s a hefty dose of insight and perspective for the prescriptivist in all of us.” -- Jo Ristow * Feminist Review blog *“This is the book that puts the ‘pun’, not to mention the ‘punk’, in ‘punctuation.’ Jennifer DeVere Brody focuses on punctuation as performance, highlighting its role in novels, poetry, art, dance and racial and gender politics. She plays with full stops, semicolons and apostrophes all the while, including a chapter in the form of a dialogue during which one character talks largely in smileys. The result is a book of spirited cultural criticism, not a monograph on linguistics.” -- Raphael Salkie * Times Higher Education *”A puncturing of semantic space, Jennifer DeVere Brody’s Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play performs at every turn a subversive politics that celebrates the margins as places where the real deal goes down. . . . Hats off to Brody for taking us someplace new.” -- Gregory Kirk Murray * Rain Taxi *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix For(e)thought: Pre/Script: gesturestyluspunctum 1 1. Smutty Daubings 27 2. Belaboring the Point . . . 62 3. Hyphen-Nations 85 4. "Queer" Quotation Marks 108 5. Sem;erot;cs ; Colon:zat:ons : Exclamat!ons ! 134 Post\Script: Cyberpunktuations? 156 Notes 169 Bibliography 191 Index 207

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Book SynopsisA preeminent science studies scholar shows how feminist and postcolonial science studies challenge the problematic modernity versus tradition binary.Trade Review“It seems that a work of this nature is long overdue and, will significantly improve the communication between modernity theorists and those working in feminist or postcolonial studies.” - Carolyn Anderson, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith“This is an ambitious and impressive book. . . . Harding’s book is a significant contribution to the literature on science, feminism, and postcoloniality. It is certainly a step in the direction of the transformation of science and politics that is Harding’s goal.” - Susan Hekman, Contemporary Sociology“Sciences from Below is a brilliant synthesis of three approaches to science and technology studies and a call for increased exchange betweenthem.” - Nancy Tuana, Isis“[T]he philosophical—and human—imperatives that led [Harding] to write this book are extremely important, and the book itself opens possibilities that philosophers must explore.” - Emily R. Grosholz, Women’s Review of Books“[A] stunning synthesis of research from post-positivist, feminist, and postcolonial science studies scholars.” - Bonnie Shulman, Technology and Culture“Sciences from Below is a splendid book. Sandra Harding’s project of intellectual integration, bringing together some of the most influential literatures on modernity, science, and feminism, is a welcome, much-needed project. Her project is needed because the social justice movements need synthetic scholarship, and it is needed because there is an academic tower of Babel with few translators.”—Hilary Rose, author of Love, Power, and Knowledge: Towards a Feminist Transformation of the Sciences“Sandra Harding fills significant gaps in three crucial, overlapping, yet strangely independent scholarly literatures on science and technology: feminist analyses of science, “traditional” science and technology studies, and postcolonial science studies. This is a unifying and strengthening project of great significance both practically (for the future of science throughout the world) and within academe.”—Anne Fausto-Sterling, author of Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality“Sandra Harding’s voice is one of the most important in the science and technology studies field. With Sciences from Below, she opens up a broad vista, one in which the entire field of social movements and alternative visions of modernity is gendered.”—David J. Hess, Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Director of the Program in Ecological Economics, Values, and Policy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute“Sciences from Below is a brilliant synthesis of three approaches to science and technology studies and a call for increased exchange betweenthem.” -- Nancy Tuana * Isis *“[A] stunning synthesis of research from post-positivist, feminist, and postcolonial science studies scholars.” -- Bonnie Shulman * Technology and Culture *“[T]he philosophical—and human—imperatives that led [Harding] to write this book are extremely important, and the book itself opens possibilities that philosophers must explore.” -- Emily R. Grosholz * Women's Review of Books *“It seems that a work of this nature is long overdue and, will significantly improve the communication between modernity theorists and those working in feminist or postcolonial studies.” -- Carolyn Anderson * Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith *“This is an ambitious and impressive book. . . . Harding’s book is a significant contribution to the literature on science, feminism, and postcoloniality. It is certainly a step in the direction of the transformation of science and politics that is Harding’s goal.” -- Susan Hekman * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Why Focus on Modernity? 1 I. Problems with Modernity's Science and Politics: Perspectives from Northern Science Studies 1. Modernity's Misleading Dream: Latour 23 2. The Incomplete First Modernity of Industrial Society: Beck 49 3. Co-evoloving Science and Society: Gibbons, Nowotny, and Scott 75 II. Views from (Western) Modernity's Peripheries 4. Women as Subjects of History and Knowledge 101 5. Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies: Are There Multiple Sciences? 130 6. Women on Modernity's Horizons: Feminist Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies 155 III. Interrogating Tradition: Challenges and Possibilities 7. Multiple Modernities: Postcolonial Standpoints 173 8. Haunted Modernities, Gendered Traditions 191 9. Moving On: A Methodological Provocation 214 Notes 235 Bibliography 257 Index 281

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Book SynopsisCompares the self-representations of the US Mexicanas with the fictional and artistic representations of academic-affiliated, professional intellectual Chicana writers. This work looks at how the Chicana professional intellectuals and the US Mexicana women refigure demeaning constructions of female gender roles and racial, and sexual identities.Trade Review“Debra J. Blake makes a great contribution to Chicano/a studies, feminist theory, folklore, and literary studies. Much has been written on La Malinche, La Llorona, and the Virgin of Guadalupe but Blake’s study is one of the most thorough, perceptive, and brilliantly argued.”—María Herrera-Sobek, author of Chicano Folklore: A Handbook“Debra J. Blake’s approach to the discussion of the archetypes of La Malinche, La Llorona, and La Virgen de Guadalupe, and her inclusion of other lesser-known figures, allow her to go beyond the mere rehashing of the same old discussions as she introduces women’s voices whose very existence questions the archetypes. By including and analyzing personal narratives collected in a series of interviews, the author explores the real-life existence of these figures in contemporary Chicana lives. This scholarly and illuminating text offers a fresh view of these often oversimplified images and icons found in Mexican female iconography.”—Norma E. Cantú, author of Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la FronteraTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Power of Representation: History, Memory, and the Cultural Refiguring of La Malinche's Lineage 13 2. Chicana Feminism: Spirituality, Sexuality, and Mexica Goddesses Re-membered 70 3. Las Historias: Sexuality, Gender Roles, and La Virgen de Guadalupe Reconsidered 102 4. Cultural Anxieties and Truths: Gender, Nationalism, and La Llorona Retellings 144 5. Reading Dynamics of Power: Oral Histories, Feminist Research, and the Politics of Location 185 Conclusion 215 Notes 223 References 253 Index 273

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Book SynopsisAn ethnography of class dynamics and the subject formation of migrant domestic workers. It explores what the migrant domestic workers mean to the families that hire them, to urban economies, to rural provinces such as Anhui, and to the Chinese state.Trade Review“New Masters, New Servants offers a sweeping critique of China’s reforms. It is politically and ideologically engaged, packed with insightful and brilliant discussions of relations between ‘state and market, countryside and city, mental and manual work, and gender and domesticity’. . . . [Yan’s book is] a good read for those eager to understand developments in China over the last two decades.” - Shiling McQuaide, Labour/Le Travail“New Masters, New Servants is a sharp and brilliant book on many conceptual and methodological fronts. . . . For anyone who is interested in discovering the strange contours and texture of neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics, and its impact on individuals from one of the most marginalized social groups, this book is a must-read. For students and researchers in the fields of gender, consumption studies, critical development studies, migration, labor and, above all, subaltern subjectivity, this book is also a source of inspiration and intellectual satisfaction.” - Wanning Sun, The China Journal“Yan’s new volume is both thought-provoking and entertaining. Clearly, theface of a globalizing China cannot be understood without a focus on theplight of migrant workers. This book is a timely contribution that providesthat lens.” - Ingrid Neilson, Pacific Affairs“This provocative and challenging book will be a must-read for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates in anthropology, Asian Studies, cultural studies and critical theory, as well as for scholars seeking a though-provoking account of the metamorphosis of labour, class and subjectivity concomitant with postsocialism in China.” - Arianne Gaetano, Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology“It is this ethnographic work that makes the book an invaluable addition to the study of gender, labour, class, rural/urban relations and ‘development’ in China. It allows Yan to present a nuanced and insightful discussion of these subjects and to offer a compelling critique of the teleology of ‘development’ usually given uncritical primacy in contemporary Chinese discourse.” - Jason Young, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies“New Masters, New Servants is the best book to date on migrant labor, gendered domestic labor, and capitalist transformation in China. It is politically and theoretically engaged, full of brilliant insights into the new logics of capitalism and neoliberalism in China, and packed with wonderfully told ethnographic stories, anecdotes, and vignettes. A must read.”—Ralph A. Litzinger, author of Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging“New Masters, New Servants is unique in its scope and ambition. One has the sense that Yan Hairong has really penetrated through several layers of mystification to see the inner workings of Chinese postsocialism and of neoliberalism at large. And through her sensitive and impassioned ethnographic engagement, she has animated the issues with lovingly rendered treatments of the circumstances and subject formation of domestic workers.”—Louisa Schein, author of Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China’s Cultural Politics“New Masters, New Servants is a sharp and brilliant book on many conceptual and methodological fronts. . . . For anyone who is interested in discovering the strange contours and texture of neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics, and its impact on individuals from one of the most marginalized social groups, this book is a must-read. For students and researchers in the fields of gender, consumption studies, critical development studies, migration, labor and, above all, subaltern subjectivity, this book is also a source of inspiration and intellectual satisfaction.” -- Wanning Sun * The China Journal *“New Masters, New Servants offers a sweeping critique of China’s reforms. It is politically and ideologically engaged, packed with insightful and brilliant discussions of relations between ‘state and market, countryside and city, mental and manual work, and gender and domesticity’. . . . [Yan’s book is] a good read for those eager to understand developments in China over the last two decades.” -- Shiling McQuaide * Labour/Le Travail *“This provocative and challenging book will be a must-read for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates in anthropology, Asian Studies, cultural studies and critical theory, as well as for scholars seeking a though-provoking account of the metamorphosis of labour, class and subjectivity concomitant with postsocialism in China.” -- Arianne Gaetano * Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *“Yan’s new volume is both thought-provoking and entertaining. Clearly, the face of a globalizing China cannot be understood without a focus on the plight of migrant workers. This book is a timely contribution that provides that lens.” -- Ingrid Neilson * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction 1 1. The Emaciation of the Rural: "No Way Out" 25 2. Mind and Body, Gender and Class 53 Part I. "Intellectuals' Burdens" and Domestic Labor 57 Part II. Searching for the Proper Baomu 80 Intermezzo 1. A Survey of Employers 109 3. Suzhi as a New Human Value: Neoliberal Governance of Labor Migration 111 Intermezzo 2. Urban Folklore on Neoliberalism 139 4. A Mirage of Modernity: Pas de Deux of Consumption and Production 145 5. Self-Development and the Specter of Class 187 Intermezzo 3. Diary and Song 217 6. The Economic Law and Liminal Subjects 221 Notes 251 References 287 Index 307

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Book SynopsisCompares the self-representations of the US Mexicanas with the representations of academic-affiliated, intellectual Chicana writers and visual artists. This work looks at how the Chicana professional intellectuals and the US Mexicana women refigure demeaning constructions of female gender roles and racial, ethnic, and sexual identities.Trade Review“Debra J. Blake makes a great contribution to Chicano/a studies, feminist theory, folklore, and literary studies. Much has been written on La Malinche, La Llorona, and the Virgin of Guadalupe but Blake’s study is one of the most thorough, perceptive, and brilliantly argued.”—María Herrera-Sobek, author of Chicano Folklore: A Handbook“Debra J. Blake’s approach to the discussion of the archetypes of La Malinche, La Llorona, and La Virgen de Guadalupe, and her inclusion of other lesser-known figures, allow her to go beyond the mere rehashing of the same old discussions as she introduces women’s voices whose very existence questions the archetypes. By including and analyzing personal narratives collected in a series of interviews, the author explores the real-life existence of these figures in contemporary Chicana lives. This scholarly and illuminating text offers a fresh view of these often oversimplified images and icons found in Mexican female iconography.”—Norma E. Cantú, author of Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la FronteraTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Power of Representation: History, Memory, and the Cultural Refiguring of La Malinche's Lineage 13 2. Chicana Feminism: Spirituality, Sexuality, and Mexica Goddesses Re-membered 70 3. Las Historias: Sexuality, Gender Roles, and La Virgen de Guadalupe Reconsidered 102 4. Cultural Anxieties and Truths: Gender, Nationalism, and La Llorona Retellings 144 5. Reading Dynamics of Power: Oral Histories, Feminist Research, and the Politics of Location 185 Conclusion 215 Notes 223 References 253 Index 273

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Book SynopsisShows how Portugal's economic integration into the European Union (EU) in 1996 fundamentally changed ordinary encounters between African migrants and Portuguese citizens. This book examines this economic transition through transformations in popular ideologies of difference in workspaces in Lisbon between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s.Trade Review“Fikes convincingly links new regulation enforcement to the emergence of novel notions and practices of citizenship. Her focus on citizenship governmentality enables a fruitful articulation between a macro-perspective(on state legislation and economic reform) and the micro-level approach to individual motives and practices cherished by anthropologists. Managing African Portugal is an interesting. . . exploration of the social consequences of modern European integration on ‘race’ ideologies and relations.” - Ana Mourão, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Association“[ A] brilliantly written book. . . . This is an important book that finally puts Portugal on the map of an English readership interested in questions of modernity, race, citizenship and nationalism.” - Bernd Reiter, Ethnic and Racial Studies“Fikes’ book is a thoughtful assessment of how colonial legacies impact contemporary social relations in an EU context and is a poignant critique of how government-sponsored ‘multiculturalist’ programs can increase the marginality of the people they purport to help.” - Samuel Weeks, Etnografica“Managing African Portugal is a well-developed ethnographic account of migrant experiences in Portugal. Kesha Fikes’ political economic perspective brings to light the performative interactions involved in the fashioning and refashioning of citizens and migrants alike. . . . Fikes nuanced discussion of gender, race, transnational migration, and citizenship helps demonstrate the value of ethnography.” - Brandon D. Lundy and Jessica Lopes, African Studies Quarterly“This is a unique study that transcends traditional ethnography. . . . Managing African Portugal is a must-read for anyone interested in the study of postcolonial relations within Europe and the livelihoods of African migrants who are systematically excluded from citizenship.” - Isabel P. B. Fêo Rodrigues, American Anthropologist“In Keisha Fikes’s engaging ethnography, Managing African Portugal, she offers a detailed account of how European Union accession hasmeant the production of the social, political, and economic distinction between migrants and citizens. . . . Through Fikes’s ethnography, the reader sees how the Europeanized demands to distinguish the citizen from the migrant not only make possible a new vision of the Portuguese citizen as ‘white’ and middle class but also forces the ‘African migrant’ away from economic independence and out of public space.” - Damani J. Partridge, American Ethnologist“Managing African Portugal is a moving ethnography of the fraught but persistent lives of Cape Verdean peixeiras (fishmongers) caught between the cultural logics of citizenship, remittances, and migrant labor. But it is also a searing account of how state-organized anti-racist campaigns, meant to free citizens like the peixeiras from racial violence, can be one of the means of locking them into new forms of class violence.”—Elizabeth A. Povinelli, author of The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality“Managing African Portugal is a timely and invaluable contribution to the study of African migrants in Europe. Kesha D. Fikes offers a thoughtful examination of how colonialism’s legacies inform the social politics of a European nation-state now significantly embedded within the contours of the European Union. In so doing, she illuminates interpretations of race as historically constituted effects of different political regimes and policies.”—Paulla A. Ebron, author of Performing Africa “Managing African Portugal is a well-developed ethnographic account of migrant experiences in Portugal. Kesha Fikes’ political economic perspective brings to light the performative interactions involved in the fashioning and refashioning of citizens and migrants alike. . . . Fikes nuanced discussion of gender, race, transnational migration, and citizenship helps demonstrate the value of ethnography.” -- Brandon D. Lundy and Jessica Lopes * African Studies Quarterly *“[ A] brilliantly written book. . . . This is an important book that finally puts Portugal on the map of an English readership interested in questions of modernity, race, citizenship and nationalism.” -- Bernd Reiter * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“Fikes convincingly links new regulation enforcement to the emergence of novel notions and practices of citizenship. Her focus on citizenship governmentality enables a fruitful articulation between a macro-perspective (on state legislation and economic reform) and the micro-level approach to individual motives and practices cherished by anthropologists. Managing African Portugal is an interesting. . . exploration of the social consequences of modern European integration on ‘race’ ideologies and relations.” -- Ana Mourão * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“Fikes’ book is a thoughtful assessment of how colonial legacies impact contemporary social relations in an EU context and is a poignant critique of how government-sponsored ‘multiculturalist’ programs can increase the marginality of the people they purport to help.” -- Samuel Weeks * Etnografica *“In Keisha Fikes’s engaging ethnography, Managing African Portugal, she offers a detailed account of how European Union accession hasmeant the production of the social, political, and economic distinction between migrants and citizens. . . . Through Fikes’s ethnography, the reader sees how the Europeanized demands to distinguish the citizen from the migrant not only make possible a new vision of the Portuguese citizen as ‘white’ and middle class but also forces the ‘African migrant’ away from economic independence and out of public space.” -- Damani J. Partridge * American Ethnologist *“This is a unique study that transcends traditional ethnography. . . . Managing African Portugal is a must-read for anyone interested in the study of postcolonial relations within Europe and the livelihoods of African migrants who are systematically excluded from citizenship.” -- Isabel P. B. Fêo Rodrigues * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xix Introduction 1 1. Miscegenation Interrupted 31 2. Ri(gh)tes of Intimacy at Docapesca 65 3. Black Magik Women: Policing Appearances 93 4. Being in Place: Domesticating the Citizen-Migrant Distinction 123 Afterword: After Integration 163 Notes 165 References 171 Index 183

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Book SynopsisA biography of the most important woman in the history of economic thought.Trade Review"This is a remarkable book. It is the first attempt of which I am aware to deal with the complexity of Joan Robinson's contributions to Cambridge economics in the 1930s. Robinson is an iconic figure, and a series of legends-mostly created by Robinson herself in a complex process of personality and career formation-makes such a historical reconstruction necessary. 'Necessary' is the right word, since the entire history of what is now called macroeconomics, and a number of elements of the history of neoclassical economics in the pre-Second World War period, have been told from the perspective of Cambridge, England, by individuals engaged in defending the Cambridge tradition." -- E. Roy Weintraub, author of How Economics Became a Mathematical Science "The Provocative Joan Robinson is an engaging, insightful, and highly original treatment of a significant figure and community in the history of economics." -- Steven G. Medema, author of The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic IdeasTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Collage with Woman in Foreground 1 1. The Improbable Theoretician 17 Excursus: Robinson and Kahn 51 2. The Making of The Economics of Imperfect Competition 89 3. Becoming a Keynesian 161 "Who Is Joan Robinson?" 235 Notes 247 Bibliography 279 Index 295

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Book SynopsisArguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivities into the present, Christina Sharpe interprets African diasporic and Black Atlantic visual and literary texts that address those “monstrous intimacies” and their repetition as constitutive of post-slavery subjectivity. Her illuminating readings juxtapose Frederick Douglass’s narrative of witnessing the brutal beating of his Aunt Hester with Essie Mae Washington-Williams’s declaration of freedom in Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond, as well as the “generational genital fantasies” depicted in Gayl Jones’s novel Corregidora with a firsthand account of such “monstrous intimacies” in the journals of an antebellum South Carolina senator, slaveholder, and vocal critic of miscegenation. Sharpe explores the South African–born writer Bessie Head&rsquTrade Review“Through compelling and intricate readings of visual and written texts, Sharpe is concerned with unpacking the intersection between violence, sex, and subjectivity in post-slavery subjects. Sharpe’s work is a poignant reflection on historical time and convincingly deals with the ways that the horrors of the past continue to structure the present. . . . Sharpe’s book is an eloquent and at times challenging analysis of the construction of post-slavery subjects as subjects who are by no means ‘post’ but continue to be structured by the past that is not quite past.” - Sam McBean, Elevate Difference“This is a bold, challenging book which is unrelenting in its interpretation of slavery and the effects it has had on subsequent generations, black and white. In effect, the monstrous intimacies continue.” - Danielle Mulholland, M/C Reviews“Sharpe’s Monstrous Intimacies succeeds in illuminating the complex entanglements of desire and horror at the heart of Black and White subjectification ‘after’ slavery. More profoundly, this text powerfully balances the fact of history’s monstrous persistence and the desire for what she identifies, after Dionne Brand, as a modality of Black life unhinged to historical narrative (129).” - Sarah Cervenak, Women’s Studies“The materials in Monstrous Intimacies register as being profoundly relevant not only for African American literature, but also for studies of the history of slavery in relation to the U.S. South. Moreover, her second chapter, focusing on the literature and culture of South Africa, addresses histories of racism, colonialism, and imperialism and speaks to discourses on the global South.” - Riché Richardson, Southern Literary Journal"Overall…Sharpe successfully demonstrates the presence of "monstrous intimacies" in each chapter. Most importantly, she creates a methodology for understanding the psychological development of post-slavery subjects and the seductive story-telling that represents his or her experience." - Denia Fraser, Kritikon Litterarum“Monstrous Intimacies is a remarkable study, lucid, engaging, and thoroughly engrossing.”—Sharon Patricia Holland, author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity“Monstrous Intimacies is an original, enriching look at the variety of artistic forms and practices that interrogate the illness of the post-slavery subject. It is international in its scope, interdisciplinary in its approach, and consistently intelligent in its execution.”—Ashraf Rushdy, author of Remembering Generations: Race and Family in Contemporary African American Fiction“Sharpe’s Monstrous Intimacies succeeds in illuminating the complex entanglements of desire and horror at the heart of Black and White subjectification ‘after’ slavery. More profoundly, this text powerfully balances the fact of history’s monstrous persistence and the desire for what she identifies, after Dionne Brand, as a modality of Black life unhinged to historical narrative (129).” -- Sarah Cervenak * Women's Studies *“This is a bold, challenging book which is unrelenting in its interpretation of slavery and the effects it has had on subsequent generations, black and white. In effect, the monstrous intimacies continue.” -- Danielle Mulholland * M/C Reviews *“Through compelling and intricate readings of visual and written texts, Sharpe is concerned with unpacking the intersection between violence, sex, and subjectivity in post-slavery subjects. Sharpe’s work is a poignant reflection on historical time and convincingly deals with the ways that the horrors of the past continue to structure the present. . . . Sharpe’s book is an eloquent and at times challenging analysis of the construction of post-slavery subjects as subjects who are by no means ‘post’ but continue to be structured by the past that is not quite past.” -- Sam McBean * Elevate Difference *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Making Monstrous Intimacies: Surviving Slavery, Bearing Freedom 1 1. Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Reading the "Days That Were Pages of Hysteria" 27 2. Bessie Head, Saartje Baartman, and Maru Redemption, Subjectification, and the Problem of Liberation 67 3. Isaac Julien's The Attendant and the Sadomasochism of Everyday Black Life 111 4. Kara Walker's Monstrous Intimacies 153 Notes 189 Bibliography 223 Index 243

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