This anthology introduces students to the modern period's history of key ideas related to sexual difference, gender, race, class, and sexuality. While most introductory Women's Studies textbooks focus on the United States, even if they add multiculturalism to the discussion, this book looks at women in diverse locations around the world and ...
"We thought the study of women would be a temporary phase; eventually we would all go back to our disciplines." - Gloria Bowles, from the afterword. Since the 1970s, Womens Studies has grown from a volunteerist political project to a full scale academic enterprise. "Women's Studies on Its Own" assesses the present and future of the field, ...
"Transnational America" is a path-breaking study of the production of middle-class Indian and American citizens in the context of late-twentieth-century neoliberalism. Inderpal Grewal considers how the circulation and travels of South Asian Indians between India and the U.S. during the 1990s created transnational subjects shaped by a global ...
While concepts of time underlie many of the central projects of feminist theory, law and justice, and the natural sciences as well as ideas about political struggle, temporality is rarely their direct object of analysis. In her essays brought together in this volume, Elizabeth Grosz moves questions about time and duration to the fore in order to ...
Moving across academic disciplines, geographical boundaries, and literary genres, "Home and Harem" examines how travel shaped ideas about culture and nation in nineteenth-century imperialist England and colonial India. Inderpal Grewal's study of the narratives and discourses of travel reveals the ways in which the colonial encounter created linked ...
With hair slicked back and shirt collar framing her young patrician face, Katharine 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 why such a cross-dressing Hollywood fantasy ...
"Wayward Reproductions" breaks apart and transfigures prevailing understandings of the interconnection among ideologies of racism, nationalism, and imperialism. It demonstrates how these ideologies were founded in large part on what Alys Eve Weinbaum calls 'the race/reproduction bind' - the notion that race is something that is biologically ...
Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labour and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile's latifundia system of traditional landed estates and throughout the governments of Eduardo Frei and Salvador Allende (1964-1973). Heidi Tinsman analyses differences between men's and women's participation in ...
This interdisciplinary study examines how the narratives and discourses of travel reveal the ways in which the colonial encounter created linked, yet distinct, constructs of nation and gender. It explores the impact of this encounter on English and Indian men and women. Looking at England, the author draws on 19th-century aesthetics, landscape art ...
"The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism" is a history of ideas about women in twentieth-century China. Tani E. Barlow tracks the categories that Chinese intellectuals have developed to think about women and connects these paradigms to transnational debates about eugenics, gender, sexuality, and the psyche. Contending that Chinese feminism has a ...
"For the Record" considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a return? And conversely, what kind of 'archive' does such a recuperative hermeneutics produce? ...
Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labour and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile's latifundia system of traditional landed estates and throughout the governments of Eduardo Frei and Salvador Allende (1964-1973). Heidi Tinsman analyses differences between men's and women's participation in ...
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