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Feminist (Re)visions of the Subject
Landscapes, Ethnoscapes, and Theoryscapes
Gail Currie (Anthology Editor) , Celia E. Rothenberg (Anthology Editor) , Mary Armstrong (Contributor) , Mimi Arnstein (Contributor) , Jessica Barkley Blaustein (Contributor) , Rhiannon Bury (Contributor) , Melinda Yuen-ching Chen (Contributor) , Shu-Ju Ada Cheng (Contributor) , Camilla Gibb (Contributor) , Jacqueline McGibbon (Contributor) , Liz Millward (Contributor) , Henrietta Moore (Contributor) , Banu Subramaniam (Contributor) , Anne Vallely (Contributor) , Michael Witmore (Contributor)
Feminist (Re)visions of the Subject
Landscapes, Ethnoscapes, and Theoryscapes
Gail Currie (Anthology Editor) , Celia E. Rothenberg (Anthology Editor) , Mary Armstrong (Contributor) , Mimi Arnstein (Contributor) , Jessica Barkley Blaustein (Contributor) , Rhiannon Bury (Contributor) , Melinda Yuen-ching Chen (Contributor) , Shu-Ju Ada Cheng (Contributor) , Camilla Gibb (Contributor) , Jacqueline McGibbon (Contributor) , Liz Millward (Contributor) , Henrietta Moore (Contributor) , Banu Subramaniam (Contributor) , Anne Vallely (Contributor) , Michael Witmore (Contributor)
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Description
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
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 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 288 |
ISBN | 9780585383477 |
Imprint | Lexington Books |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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For scholars beginning their academic careers at a time when feminist scholarship is more established and made more challenging by postmodern critiques of knowledge... this book will be a guide and inspiration. For more weary practioners, too, this book includes much to stimulate new ideas and will also provide a series of new examples for teaching about the ways in which social divisions... are written into the landscape.
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
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Feminist (Re)visions of the Subject contains some wonderufl essays; all of them raise questions and push the boundaries of postmodern thinking and the nature of women as subjects.
Louise Johnson, Deakin University, Australia, Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography
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Currie and Rothenberg have deftly identified a provocative and rich approach to feminist praxis...
Canadian Woman Studies
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Finally, an original collection of feminist essays that takes the theoretical insights of postmodernism into exciting new critical terrains by rethinking the complexity of space, place, and knowledge production across diverse disciplinary sites. Even scholars exhausted by academic feminism's theoretical preoccupations will welcome this collection's innovative analyses of the subject's complex situatedness in the seemingly contradictory terrains of everyday life and theoretical reflection.
Robyn Wiegman, Duke University