Caren Kaplan: 24 books
Wayward Reproductions
Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2004
Wayward Reproductions breaks apart and transfigures prevailing understandings of the interconnection among ideologies of racism, nationalism, and imperialism. Alys Eve Weinbaum demonstrates how these ideologies were founded in large part on what she calls “the race/reproduction bind”––the...
The Red Riviera
Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2005
This compelling ethnography of women working in Bulgaria’s popular sea and ski resorts challenges the idea that women have consistently fared worse than men in Eastern Europe’s transition from socialism to a market economy. For decades western European tourists have flocked to Bulgaria’s beautiful...
The Age of the World Target
Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2006
Martin Heidegger once wrote that the world had, in the age of modern science, become a world picture. For Rey Chow, the world has, in the age of atomic bombs, become a world target, to be attacked once it is identified, or so global geopolitics, dominated by the United States since the end of the...
The Body of War
Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
In The Body of War, Dubravka Žarkov analyzes representations of female and male bodies in the Croatian and Serbian press in the late 1980s and in the early 1990s, during the war in which Yugoslavia disintegrated. Žarkov proposes that the Balkan war was not a war between ethnic groups; rather, ethnicity...
Partners in Conflict
The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2002
Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labor and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile’s latifundia system of traditional landed estates and throughout the governments of Eduardo Frei and Salvador Allende. Heidi Tinsman analyzes differences between...
Figurations
Child, Bodies, Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2002
Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure. In Figurations, Claudia Castañeda shows how this malleability is itself generated—how the child is "made" by different constituencies and how the resulting historically, geographically,...
by Antoinette Burton, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
Santha Rama Rau was one of the best known South Asian writers in postwar America. Born into India’s elite in 1923, Rama Rau has lived in the United States since the 1940s. Although she is no longer well known, she was for several decades a popular expert on India. She provided an insider’s view...
The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves
How Feminism Travels across Borders
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
The book Our Bodies, Ourselves is a feminist success story. Selling more than four million copies since its debut in 1970, it has challenged medical dogmas about women’s bodies and sexuality, shaped health care policies, energized the reproductive rights movement, and stimulated medical research...
The Scandal of the State
Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003
The Scandal of the State is a revealing study of the relationship between the postcolonial, democratic Indian nation-state and Indian women’s actual needs and lives. Well-known for her work combining feminist theory and postcolonial studies, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan shows how the state is central...
Alimentary Tracts
Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
In Alimentary Tracts Parama Roy argues that who eats and with whom, who starves, and what is rejected as food are questions fundamental to empire, decolonization, and globalization. In crucial ways, she suggests, colonialism reconfigured the sensorium of colonizer and colonized, generating novel experiences...
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