The Global and the Intimate : : Feminism in Our Time / / ed. by Victoria Rosner, Geraldine Pratt.

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• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Rachel,; Bal, Mieke,; Dekel, Mikhal,; Fidecaro, Agnese,; Grewal, Inderpal,; Hirsch, Marianne,; Huang, Tsung-yi Michelle,; Lee, Min Jin,; Li, Chi-she,; Miller, Nancy K.,; Pratt, Geraldine,; Probyn, Elspeth,; Rius, Marisa Belausteguigoitia,; Rosner, Victoria,; Smith, Sidonie,; Wilson, Ara,; Wright, Melissa W.,; Writers, Sangtin,
• HerausgeberIn: Pratt, Geraldine,; Rosner, Victoria,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Gender and Culture Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 20 halftones

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 eng...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• I. THE ANATOMY OF INTIMACY.
• 1. Intimacy
• 2. In the Interests of Taste and Place
• Jamaica Kincaid's Practical Politics of the Intimate in My Garden (book)
• 4. Widening Circles
• II. MEMORY, HISTORY, COMMUNITY
• 5. Facing
• 6. Objects of Return
• 7. Narratives and Rights
• 8. Letter from Argentina
• III. LEGISLATING INTIMACY
• 9. "Security Moms" in Twenty-First-Century U.S.A
• 10. "Like a Family, But Not Quite"
• 11. What We Women Talk About When We Talk About Interracial Love
• 12. The Pedagogy of the Spiral
• IV. GLOBAL FEMINISM AND THE SUBJECTS OF KNOWLEDGE
• 13. Witnessing, Femicide, and a Politics of the Familiar
• 14. Solidarity, Self-Critique, and Survival
• 15. Tehran Kids
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Backmatter