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Feminist (Re)visions utilizes the study of space and place-which extends through sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and area studies, historical perspectives, and philosophy-as a paradigm for cross-disciplinary inquiry. Noting that both the study of space/place and feminism are transected by the lines of spacial, conceptual, and ontological disintegration in contemporary academia, Gail Currie and Celia Rothenberg have culled a collection of writings drawn together from feminist scholars across several disciplines to address three questions: how are subjects constituted in relation to the spaces and places they occupy; how are those spaces and places in turn negotiated and transformed; and how are feminists actively constructing new visions of the female subject in the context of the postmodern academic terrain? This work sets the stage for the development of a productive feminist praxis in an academic world some fear has been relativized and depoliticized by the postmodern turn.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Landscapes: Negotiating Space
Chapter 3 Critical Dwellings: Foregrounding Space in the Feminist Picture
Chapter 4 "Your Life Vest is Under Your Seat": The Politics of Airline Seating
Chapter 5 From a Room to a Cyberspace of One's Own: Technology and the Women-Only Heterotopia
Chapter 6 Family Business: The Household, Gender, and Generational Relations in an International Ski Resort in the Tirolean Alps
Part 7 Ethnoscapes: Production of Place
Chapter 8 Manufactured Tradition and the Embodiment of Place: Ethiopian Muslims in a Deterritorialized World
Chapter 9 Ambiguous Symbols: Women and the Ascetic Ideal in Jainism
Chapter 10 Embodied Spirits: Palestinians and the Experience of Possession
Chapter 11 Consciousness Razing: Self-Defining Feminism and the Problem of Postmodern Politics
Part 12 Theoryscapes: Landscapes of Theory Production
Chapter 13 Weaving Intimacy and Reflexivity: The Locational Politics of Power, Knowledge, and Identities
Chapter 14 Cross-Pollinations: Tropes and Consequences in Scientific Writing
Chapter 15 Fear of a Real Planet: Sublunary Fantasies of Gender, Sex, and Nation
Chapter 16 Crossing Performativities: "Reclaiming" as both Utterance and Gender Construction
Chapter 17 Afterword

Product details

Published Aug 12 2002
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 288
ISBN 9780585383477
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Gail Currie

Anthology Editor

Celia E. Rothenberg

Celia E. Rothenberg is associate professor in the…

Contributor

Mary Armstrong

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Mimi Arnstein

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Rhiannon Bury

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Shu-Ju Ada Cheng

Shu-Ju Ada Cheng is assistant professor of sociolo…

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Camilla Gibb

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Liz Millward

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Henrietta Moore

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Anne Vallely

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Michael Witmore

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