Perry Vexy Thing

On Gender and Liberation
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0227-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Imani Perry recenters patriarchy to contemporary discussions of feminism through a social and literary analysis of cultural artifacts—ranging from nineteenth-century slavery court cases and historical vignettes to literature and contemporary art—from the Enlightenment to the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Perry, Imani

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Seafaring, Sovereignty, and the Self: Of Patriarchy and the Conditions of Modernity 14
2. Producing Personhood: The Rise of Capitalism and the Western Subject 42
Interlude 1. How Did We Get Here? Nobody's Supposed to Be Here 86
3. In the Ether: Neoliberalism and Entrepreneurial Woman 98
4. Simulacra Child: Hypermedia and the Mediated Subject 129
5. Sticks Broken at the River: The Security State and the Violence of Manhood 151
Interlude 2. Returning to the Witches 171
6. Unmaking the Territory and Remapping the Landscape 177
7. The Utterance of My Name: Invitation and the Disorder of Desire 199
8. The Vicar of Liberation 226
Notes 255
Bibliography 273
Index 283

Über Autor(innen)

Imani Perry is Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop, also published by Duke University Press, and More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States.