Robyn Wiegman: 25 books
American Anatomies
Theorizing Race and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 1995
In this brilliantly combative study, Robyn Wiegman challenges contemporary clichés about race and gender, a formulation that is itself a cliché in need of questioning. As part of what she calls her "feminist disloyalty," she turns a critical, even skeptical, eye on current debates about...
by Robyn Wiegman
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
No concept has been more central to the emergence and evolution of identity studies than social justice. In historical and theoretical accounts, it crystallizes the progressive politics that have shaped the academic study of race, gender, and sexuality. Yet few scholars have deliberated directly on...
by Wendy Brown, Robyn Wiegman, Gayle Salamon
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
At many universities, women’s studies programs have achieved department status, establishing tenure-track appointments, graduate programs, and consistent course enrollments. Yet, as Joan Wallach Scott notes in her introduction to this collection, in the wake of its institutional successes, women’s...
No Bond but the Law
Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780–1870
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004
Investigating the cultural, social, and political histories of punishment during ninety years surrounding the 1838 abolition of slavery in Jamaica, Diana Paton challenges standard historiographies of slavery and discipline. The abolition of slavery in Jamaica, as elsewhere, entailed the termination...
No More Separate Spheres!
A Next Wave American Studies Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2002
No More Separate Spheres! challenges the limitations of thinking about American literature and culture within the narrow rubric of “male public” and “female private” spheres from the founders to the present. With provocative essays by an array of cutting-edge critics with diverse viewpoints,...
by Jocelyn H. Olcott, Robyn Wiegman, Inderpal Grewal
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2006
Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico is an empirically rich history of women’s political organizing during a critical stage of regime consolidation. Rebutting the image of Mexican women as conservative and antirevolutionary, Jocelyn Olcott shows women activists challenging prevailing...
Terrorist Assemblages
Homonationalism in Queer Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2007
In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer subjects...
Sciences from Below
Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around...
Lesbian Rule
Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
With hair slicked back and shirt collar framing her young patrician face, Katherine Hepburn's image in the 1935 film Sylvia Scarlett was seen by many as a lesbian representation. Yet, Amy Villarejo argues, there is no final ground upon which to explain why that image of Hepburn signifies lesbian or...
Transnational America
Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
In Transnational America, Inderpal Grewal examines how the circulation of people, goods, social movements, and rights discourses during the 1990s created transnational subjects shaped by a global American culture. Rather than simply frame the United States as an imperialist nation-state that imposes...
by Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism is a history of thinking about the subject of women in twentieth-century China. Tani E. Barlow illustrates the theories and conceptual categories that Enlightenment Chinese intellectuals have developed to describe the collectivity of women. Demonstrating how...
by Ella Shohat, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006
Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices brings together for the first time a selection of trailblazing essays by Ella Shohat, an internationally renowned theorist of postcolonial and cultural studies of Iraqi-Jewish background. Written over the past two decades, these twelve essays—some classic, some less...
Why Stories Matter
The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Why Stories Matter is a powerful critique of the stories that feminists tell about the past four decades of Western feminist theory. Clare Hemmings examines the narratives that make up feminist accounts of recent feminist history, highlights the ethical and political dilemmas raised by these narratives,...
Becoming Imperial Citizens
Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
In this remarkable account of imperial citizenship, Sukanya Banerjee investigates the ways that Indians formulated notions of citizenship in the British Empire from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth. Tracing the affective, thematic, and imaginative tropes that underwrote Indian...
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