Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies – serie
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Terrorist Assemblages
Homonationalism in Queer Times
Häftad, 2017
347 kr
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Tenth Anniversary Expanded EditionTen years on, Jasbir K. Puar’s pathbreaking Terrorist Assemblages remains one of the most influential queer theory texts and continues to reverberate across multiple political landscapes, activist projects, and scholarly pursuits. Puar argues that configurations of …
Attachments to War
Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America
Häftad, 2017
396 kr
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In Attachments to War Jennifer Terry traces how biomedical logics entangle Americans in a perpetual state of war. Focusing on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars between 2002 and 2014, Terry identifies the presence of a biomedicine-war nexus in which new forms of wounding provoke the continual …
Black Feminism Reimagined
After Intersectionality
Häftad, 2019
266 kr
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In Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, often celebrated as its primary intellectual and political contribution to feminist theory. Charting the institutional history and contemporary uses of intersectionality in the academy, Nash …
Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices
Av Ella Shohat
Inbunden, 2006
1463 kr
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Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices brings together for the first time a selection of trailblazing essays by Ella Shohat, an internationally renowned theorist of postcolonial and cultural studies of Iraqi-Jewish background. Written over the past two decades, these twelve essays-some classic, some less …
No More Separate Spheres!
A Next Wave American Studies Reader
Av Cathy N. Davidson, Jessamyn Hatcher
Häftad, 2002
507 kr
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No More Separate Spheres! challenges the limitations of thinking about American literature and culture within the narrow rubric of “male public” and “female private” spheres from the founders to the present. With provocative essays by an array of cutting-edge critics with diverse viewpoints, this …
Women's Studies on Its Own
A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change
Häftad, 2002
429 kr
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"We thought the study of women would be a temporary phase; eventually we would all go back to our disciplines."-Gloria Bowles, From the AfterwordSince the 1970s, Women's Studies has grown from a volunteerist political project to a full-scale academic enterprise. Women's Studies on Its Own assesses …
Scandal of the State
Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India
Häftad, 2003
385 kr
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The Scandal of the State is a revealing study of the relationship between the postcolonial, democratic Indian nation-state and Indian women’s actual needs and lives. Well-known for her work combining feminist theory and postcolonial studies, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan shows how the state is central to …
Lesbian Rule
Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire
Häftad, 2003
521 kr
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With hair slicked back and shirt collar framing her young patrician face, Katherine Hepburn's image in the 1935 film Sylvia Scarlett was seen by many as a lesbian representation. Yet, Amy Villarejo argues, there is no final ground upon which to explain why that image of Hepburn signifies lesbian or …
Question of Women in Chinese Feminism
Av Tani Barlow
Inbunden, 2004
497 kr
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The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism is a history of thinking about the subject of women in twentieth-century China. Tani E. Barlow illustrates the theories and conceptual categories that Enlightenment Chinese intellectuals have developed to describe the collectivity of women. Demonstrating …
Wayward Reproductions
Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought
Häftad, 2004
441 kr
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Wayward Reproductions breaks apart and transfigures prevailing understandings of the interconnection among ideologies of racism, nationalism, and imperialism. Alys Eve Weinbaum demonstrates how these ideologies were founded in large part on what she calls “the race/reproduction bind”––the notion …
No Bond but the Law
Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780–1870
Av Diana Paton
Inbunden, 2004
1622 kr
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Investigating the cultural, social, and political histories of punishment during ninety years surrounding the 1838 abolition of slavery in Jamaica, Diana Paton challenges standard historiographies of slavery and discipline. The abolition of slavery in Jamaica, as elsewhere, entailed the termination …
Transnational America
Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms
Häftad, 2005
385 kr
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In Transnational America, Inderpal Grewal examines how the circulation of people, goods, social movements, and rights discourses during the 1990s created transnational subjects shaped by a global American culture. Rather than simply frame the United States as an imperialist nation-state that …
Time Travels
Feminism, Nature, Power
Inbunden, 2005
1575 kr
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Recently the distinguished feminist theorist Elizabeth Grosz has turned her critical acumen toward rethinking time and duration. Time Travels brings her trailblazing essays together to show how reconceptualizing temporality transforms and revitalizes key scholarly and political projects. In these …
Time Travels
Feminism, Nature, Power
Häftad, 2005
385 kr
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Recently the distinguished feminist theorist Elizabeth Grosz has turned her critical acumen toward rethinking time and duration. Time Travels brings her trailblazing essays together to show how reconceptualizing temporality transforms and revitalizes key scholarly and political projects. In these …
Red Riviera
Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea
Häftad, 2005
343 kr
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This compelling ethnography of women working in Bulgaria’s popular sea and ski resorts challenges the idea that women have consistently fared worse than men in Eastern Europe’s transition from socialism to a market economy. For decades western European tourists have flocked to Bulgaria’s beautiful …
Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Häftad, 2006
454 kr
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Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico is an empirically rich history of women’s political organizing during a critical stage of regime consolidation. Rebutting the image of Mexican women as conservative and antirevolutionary, Jocelyn Olcott shows women activists challenging prevailing …
Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices
Av Ella Shohat
Häftad, 2006
632 kr
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Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices brings together for the first time a selection of trailblazing essays by Ella Shohat, an internationally renowned theorist of postcolonial and cultural studies of Iraqi-Jewish background. Written over the past two decades, these twelve essays-some classic, some less …
Body of War
Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia
Häftad, 2007
385 kr
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In The Body of War, Dubravka Žarkov analyzes representations of female and male bodies in the Croatian and Serbian press in the late 1980s and in the early 1990s, during the war in which Yugoslavia disintegrated. Žarkov proposes that the Balkan war was not a war between ethnic groups; rather, …
Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves
How Feminism Travels Across Borders
Av Kathy Davis
Inbunden, 2007
1266 kr
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The book Our Bodies, Ourselves is a feminist success story. Selling more than four million copies since its debut in 1970, it has challenged medical dogmas about women’s bodies and sexuality, shaped health care policies, energized the reproductive rights movement, and stimulated medical research on …
Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves
How Feminism Travels Across Borders
Av Kathy Davis
Häftad, 2007
385 kr
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The book Our Bodies, Ourselves is a feminist success story. Selling more than four million copies since its debut in 1970, it has challenged medical dogmas about women’s bodies and sexuality, shaped health care policies, energized the reproductive rights movement, and stimulated medical research on …
Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau
Häftad, 2007
378 kr
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Santha Rama Rau was one of the best known South Asian writers in postwar America. Born into India’s elite in 1923, Rama Rau has lived in the United States since the 1940s. Although she is no longer well known, she was for several decades a popular expert on India. She provided an insider’s view of …
Sciences from Below
Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities
Inbunden, 2008
1263 kr
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In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around …
Sciences from Below
Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities
Häftad, 2008
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385 kr
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In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around …
Modern Girl Around the World
Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization
Av The Modern Girl around the World Research Group, Alys Eve Weinbaum m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
353 kr
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During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. Modern Girls wore sexy clothes and high …
Becoming Imperial Citizens
Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire
Häftad, 2010
310 kr
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In this remarkable account of imperial citizenship, Sukanya Banerjee investigates the ways that Indians formulated notions of citizenship in the British Empire from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth. Tracing the affective, thematic, and imaginative tropes that underwrote …
Alimentary Tracts
Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial
Av Parama Roy
Häftad, 2010
396 kr
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In Alimentary Tracts Parama Roy argues that who eats and with whom, who starves, and what is rejected as food are questions fundamental to empire, decolonization, and globalization. In crucial ways, she suggests, colonialism reconfigured the sensorium of colonizer and colonized, generating novel …
Why Stories Matter
The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory
Inbunden, 2011
1295 kr
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Why Stories Matter is a powerful critique of the stories that feminists tell about the past four decades of Western feminist theory. Clare Hemmings examines the narratives that make up feminist accounts of recent feminist history, highlights the ethical and political dilemmas raised by these …
Why Stories Matter
The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory
Häftad, 2011
466 kr
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Why Stories Matter is a powerful critique of the stories that feminists tell about the past four decades of Western feminist theory. Clare Hemmings examines the narratives that make up feminist accounts of recent feminist history, highlights the ethical and political dilemmas raised by these …
Citizenship from Below
Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom
Av Mimi Sheller
Inbunden, 2012
1285 kr
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Citizenship from Below boldly revises the history of the struggles for freedom by emancipated peoples in post-slavery Jamaica, post-independence Haiti, and the wider Caribbean by focusing on the interplay between the state, the body, race, and sexuality. Mimi Sheller offers a new theory of …
Spectacular Rhetorics
Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms
Häftad, 2011
385 kr
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Spectacular Rhetorics is a rigorous analysis of the rhetorical frameworks and narratives that underlie human rights law, shape the process of cultural and legal recognition, and delimit public responses to violence and injustice. Integrating visual and textual criticism, Wendy S. Hesford …
