Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire
In Intoxicated Mel Y. Chen explores the ongoing imperial relationship between race, sexuality, and disability. They focus on nineteenth-century biopolitical archives in England and Australia to show how mutual entanglements of race and disability take form through toxicity.Read more about Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire
Femminismi queer transnazionali. Critiche post e decoloniali all’omofobia, all’islamofobia e all’omonazionalismo
Questo volume propone alcuni importanti contributi di un femminismo transnazionale che dagli anni Novanta cerca di spostare il baricentro delle questioni di genere oltre l’occidente bianco, radicando la propria riflessione e la propria pratica a un contesto postcoloniale. Essi...Read more about Femminismi queer transnazionali. Critiche post e decoloniali all’omofobia, all’islamofobia e all’omonazionalismo
To Defend this Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Geography of Race in Nicaragua
To Defend this Sunrise examines how black women on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua engage in regional, national, and transnational modes of activism to remap the nation’s racial order under conditions of increasing economic precarity and autocracy. The book considers how, since the 19th century...Read more about To Defend this Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Geography of Race in Nicaragua
Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
Advances in LGBTQ rights in the recent past—marriage equality, the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and the expansion of hate crimes legislation—have been accompanied by a rise in attacks against trans, queer and/or gender-nonconforming people of color. In Atmospheres of Violence...Read more about Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism
Western feminists, pundits, and policymakers tend to portray the Muslim world as the last and most difficult frontier of global feminism. Challenging this view, Elora Shehabuddin presents a unique and engaging history of feminism as a story of colonial and postcolonial interactions between...Read more about Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism
Global Raciality: Empire, PostColoniality, DeColoniality
Global Raciality expands our understanding of race, space, and place by exploring forms of racism and anti-racist resistance worldwide. Contributors address neoliberalism; settler colonialism; race, class, and gender intersectionality; immigrant rights; Islamophobia; and homonationalism...Read more about Global Raciality: Empire, PostColoniality, DeColoniality
Persian Carpets: Nation as a Transnational Commodity
Persian Carpets: the Nation As a Transnational Commodity tracks the Persian carpet as an exotic and mythological object, as a commodity, and as an image from mid-nineteenth-century England to contemporary Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Following the journey of this single object, the...Read more about Persian Carpets: Nation as a Transnational Commodity
Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that...Read more about Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran
Moallem refers to the gendered notions of brother and sister as keys to understanding the invention of the Islamic ummat as a modern fraternal community. Using magazines, novels, and films, she offers a feminist transnational analysis of contemporary Iranian culture that questions dominant...Read more about Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran
Gender in the Hindu Nation: RSS Women as Ideologues
The three insightful essays in this volume offer a detailed account of women who are active in the Rashtriya Sevika Samiti. It analyses differences in their, and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s articulation of the place that women occupy in their ideology, in symbolic space, and in a...Read more about Gender in the Hindu Nation: RSS Women as Ideologues
Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico’s Global Factories
In this engrossing and original book, Leslie Salzinger takes us with her into the gendered world of Mexico's global factories. Her careful ethnographic work, personal voice, and sophisticated analysis capture the feel of life inside the maquiladoras and make a compelling case that...Read more about Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico’s Global Factories
Right Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists Around the World
An oft-neglected subject, right-wing women are an important component in understanding the many racist, fascist, and anti-feminist movements of the 20th century. Providing original research on an array of right-wing groups around the world, the contributors paint a disturbing and...Read more about Right Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists Around the World
Measured Excess: Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea
This insightful analysis of the ways in which South Korean economic development strategies have reshaped the country's national identity gives specific attention to the manner in which women, as the primary agents of consumption, have been affected by this transformation. Past scholarship...Read more about Measured Excess: Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea
Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State
In Between Woman and Nationconstructions such as nationalism, homeland, country, region, and locality are for the first time examined in the context of gender. The contributors—leading scholars of ethnicity, transnationalism, globalization, and feminist theory—are united in...Read more about Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State