{"product_id":"the-global-and-the-intimate-9780231154499","title":"The Global and the Intimate","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBalancing feminist theory's commitment to the everyday with a keen understanding of the structures that shape lives, The Global and the Intimate demonstrates how the site-specific material practices undertaken by embodied agents both connect with and affect other people and places across the globe. It is a richly textured book that merits a wide audience while inviting a reconsideration of hierarchies of space and scale and their relevance to feminist investigations. -- Sallie Marston, University of Arizona\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Global and the Intimate -- Geraldine Pratt and Victoria RosnerI. The Anatomy of Intimacy: Bodies, Feelings, and the Everyday 1. Intimacy: A Useful Category of Transnational Analysis -- Ara Wilson 2. In the Interests of Taste and Place: Economies of Attachment -- Elspeth Probyn 3. Jamaica Kincaid's Practical Politics of the Intimate in My Garden (book) -- Agnese Fidecaro 4. Widening Circles -- Rachel AdamsII. Memory, History, Community: Personal Narrative in a Transnational Frame 5. Facing: Intimacy Across Divisions -- Mieke Bal 6. Objects of Return -- Marianne Hirsch 7. Narratives and Rights: Zlata's Diary and the Circulation of Stories of Suffering Ethnicity -- Sidonie Smith 8. Letter from Argentina -- Nancy K. MillerIII. Legislating Intimacy: Women's Work, State Control, and the Politics of Reputation 9. \"Security Moms\" in Twenty-First-Century U.S.A.: The Gender of Security in Neoliberalism -- Inderpal Grewal 10. \"Like a Family, But Not Quite\": Emotional Labor and Cinematic Politics of Intimacy -- Tsung-Yi Michelle Huang and Chi-She Li 11. What We Women Talk About When We Talk About Interracial Love -- Min Jin Lee 12. The Pedagogy of the Spiral: Intimacy and Captivity in a Women's Prison -- Marisa Belausteguigoitia RiusIV. Global Feminism and the Subjects of Knowledge 13. Witnessing, Femicide, and a Politics of the Familiar -- Melissa W. Wright 14. Solidarity, Self-Critique, and Survival: Sangtin's Struggles with Fieldwork -- Sangtin Writers 15. Tehran Kids -- Mikhal Dekel","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51358992728407,"sku":"9780231154499","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231154499.jpg?v=1754123134","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-global-and-the-intimate-9780231154499","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}