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The global and the intimate : feminism in our time /
Sixteen essays by prominent feminist scholars and authors establish new paths in the study of intimacy and globalization, challenging globalization's grand narratives and their representation of women as either victims of forced migration or local actors of limited influence. These essays inter...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Gender and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Global and the Intimate; I THE ANATOMY OF INTIMACY; 1. Intimacy: A Useful Category of Transnational Analysis; 2. In the Interests of Taste and Place: Economies of Attachment; 3. Jamaica Kincaid's Practical Politics of the Intimate in My Garden (Book); 4. Widening Circles; II MEMORY, HISTORY, COMMUNITY; 5. Facing: Intimacy Across Divisions; 6. Objects of Return; 7. Narratives and Rights: Zlata's Diary and the Circulation of Stories of Suffering Ethnicity; 8. Letter from Argentina; III LEGISLATING INTIMACY.
- ""Security Moms"" in Twenty-First-Century U.S.A.: The Gender of Security in Neoliberalism10. ""LIke a Family, Byt Not Quite"": Emotional Labor and Cinematic Politics of Intimacy; 11. What We Women Talk About When We Talk About Interracial Love; 12. The Pedagogy of the Spiral: Intimacy and Captivity in a Women's Prison; IV GLOBAL FEMINISM AND THE SUBJECTS OF KNOWLEDGE; 13. Witnessing, Femicide, and a Politics of the Familiar; 14. Solidarity, Self-Critique, and Survival: Sangtin's Struggles with Fieldwork; 15. Tehran Kids; Contributors; Index.