Cargando…
Pedagogies of crossing : meditations on feminism, sexual politics, memory, and the sacred /
A collection of essays by Alexander addressing the implications of transnational thinking for our understanding of gender, sex, sexuality, and race.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Durham [N.C.] :
Duke University Press,
2005.
|
| Colección: | Perverse modernities.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A collection of essays by Alexander addressing the implications of transnational thinking for our understanding of gender, sex, sexuality, and race. "M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race theories, with some of her more recent work. In this landmark interdisciplinary volume, Alexander points to a number of critical imperatives made all the more urgent by contemporary manifestations of neoimperialism and neocolonialism. Among these are the need for North American feminism and queer studies to take up transnational frameworks that foreground questions of colonialism, political economy, and racial formation; for a thorough re-conceptualization of modernity to account for the heteronormative regulatory practices of modern state formations; and for feminists to wrestle with the spiritual dimensions of experience and the meaning of sacred subjectivity. In these meditations, Alexander deftly unites large, often contradictory, historical processes across time and space. She focuses on the criminalization of queer communities in both the United States and the Caribbean in ways that prompt us to rethink how modernity invents its own traditions; she juxtaposes the political organizing and consciousness of women workers in global factories in Mexico, the Caribbean, and Canada with the pressing need for those in the academic factory to teach for social justice; she reflects on the limits and failures of liberal pluralism; and she presents original and compelling arguments that show how and why transgenerational memory is an indispensable spiritual practice within differently constituted women-of-color communities as it operates as a powerful antidote to oppression. In this multifaceted, visionary book, Alexander maps the terrain of alternative histories and offers new forms of knowledge with which to mold alternative futures."--Provided by publisher |
|---|---|
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 410 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-393) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822386988 0822386984 1283021919 9781283021913 9786613021915 6613021911 |