By placing the global and the intimate in near relation, sixteen essays by prominent feminist scholars and authors forge a distinctively feminist approach to questions of transnational relations, economic development, and intercultural exchange. This pairing enables personal modes of writing and engagement with globalization debates and forges a definition of justice keyed to the specificity of time, place, and feeling. Writing from multiple disciplinary and geographical perspectives, the contributors participate in a long-standing feminist tradition of upending spatial hierarchies and making theory out of the practices of everyday life.
- Contents
- 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 Neoliberalism
- 10. "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
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