The Global and the Intimate

The Global and the Intimate

Feminism in Our Time

  • Autor: Pratt, Geraldine; Rosner, Victoria
  • Editor: Columbia University Press
  • Col·lecció: Gender and Culture Series
  • ISBN: 9780231154482
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780231520843
  • Lloc de publicació:  New York , United States
  • Any de publicació digital: 2012
  • Mes: Maig
  • Idioma: Anglés
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