Global and the Intimate

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-15449-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 528 g

Reihe: Gender and Culture Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pratt, Geraldine

Rosner, Victoria

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Global and the Intimate -- Geraldine Pratt and Victoria Rosner

I. The Anatomy of Intimacy: Bodies, Feelings, and the Everyday1. Intimacy: A Useful Category of Transnational Analysis -- Ara Wilson2. In the Interests of Taste and Place: Economies of Attachment -- Elspeth Probyn3. Jamaica Kincaid's Practical Politics of the Intimate in My Garden (book) -- Agnese Fidecaro4. Widening Circles -- Rachel Adams

II. Memory, History, Community: Personal Narrative in a Transnational Frame5. Facing: Intimacy Across Divisions -- Mieke Bal6. Objects of Return -- Marianne Hirsch7. Narratives and Rights: Zlata's Diary and the Circulation of Stories of Suffering Ethnicity -- Sidonie Smith8. Letter from Argentina -- Nancy K. Miller

III. Legislating Intimacy: Women's Work, State Control, and the Politics of Reputation9. "Security Moms" in Twenty-First-Century U.S.A.: The Gender of Security in Neoliberalism -- Inderpal Grewal10. "Like a Family, But Not Quite": Emotional Labor and Cinematic Politics of Intimacy -- Tsung-Yi Michelle Huang and Chi-She Li11. What We Women Talk About When We Talk About Interracial Love -- Min Jin Lee12. The Pedagogy of the Spiral: Intimacy and Captivity in a Women's Prison -- Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius

IV. Global Feminism and the Subjects of Knowledge13. Witnessing, Femicide, and a Politics of the Familiar -- Melissa W. Wright14. Solidarity, Self-Critique, and Survival: Sangtin's Struggles with Fieldwork -- Sangtin Writers15. Tehran Kids -- Mikhal Dekel

Leseproben

Read the introduction, >The Global and the Intimate, by Geraldine Pratt and Victoria Rosner

Über Autor(innen)

Rosner, Victoria
Victoria Rosner is associate dean at Columbia University, where she teaches courses on modernist literature, gender, and space. She is the author of Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life.

Pratt, Geraldine
Geraldine Pratt is professor of geography at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Working Feminism and Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love and the coauthor of Gender, Work, and Space.

Geraldine Pratt is professor of geography at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Working Feminism and Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love and the coauthor of Gender, Work, and Space.

Victoria Rosner is associate dean at Columbia University, where she teaches courses on modernist literature, gender, and space. She is the author of Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life.