Download or read book Postnational Feminisms written by Hena Ahmad and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Postnational Feminisms: Postcolonial Identities and Cosmopolitanism in the Works of Kamala Markandaya, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Anita Desai offers a significant contribution to the field of postcolonial and Third World feminist studies. It reevaluates the ways in which Third World women writers interrogate the relationship between woman and nation in the postcolonial context. Hena Ahmad brings forth the concept of "postnational feminism", which she deploys to show how these major writers challenge the role of women as signifiers of national cultures in their works. This innovative concept illuminates the ambivalence of these uniquely positioned writers as Ahmad explores the connection between postnationalism and Third World feminism." -- BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Joyce Feminism Post Colonialism written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Joyce is located between, and constructed within, two worlds: the national and international, the political and cultural systems of colonialism and postcolonialism. Joyce's political project is to construct a postcolonial contra-modernity: to write the incommensurable differences of colonial, postcolonial, and gendered subjectivities, and, in doing so, to reorient the axis of power and knowledge. What Joyce dramatizes in his hybrid writing is the political and cultural remainder of imperial history or patriarchal canons: a remainder that resists assimilation into the totalizing narratives of modernity. Through this remainder - of both politics and the psyche - Joyce reveals how a minority culture can construct political and personal agency. Joyce: Feminism / Post / Colonialism, edited by Ellen Carol Jones, bears witness to the construction of that agency, tracing the inscription of the racial and sexual other in colonial, nationalist, and postnational representations, deciphering the history of the possible. Contributors are Gregory Castle, Gerald Doherty, Enda Duffy, James Fairhall, Peter Hitchcock, Ellen Carol Jones, Ranjana Khanna, Patrick McGee, Marilyn Reizbaum, Susan de Sola Rodstein, Carol Shloss, and David Spurr.
Download or read book The Illusions Of Post Feminism written by Vicki Coppock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1995. As feminists reflect on the impact of the 'second wave' of feminism, and assess the gains of the last thirty years, invariably they have questioned whether claims that women have achieved equality are justified. In the late 1980s, there was a proliferation of popular imagery of 'new' men and 'post-feminist' women, with the concept of 'post-feminism' reinforcing and emphasizing the differences between independent, upwardly-mobile, career orientated women, and those women who 'choose' the more 'natural' role of wife and mother. The Illusions of'Post-Feminism':New Women, Old Myths maintains that 'post-feminism' is a myth. Through in-depth interviews with women about four major areas of their lives: education, work, the media and the family, the authors challenge and expose the myths implicit in the concept of 'post-feminism'. The research illustrates that women's discontent continues, despite the assumption that gender equality would result from equal opportunities legislation. The chapters highlight the ineffective nature of liberal reformism and demonstrate how power relations still lie at the root of the oppression of women. With its provoking and challenging analysis, this revealing book breaks the silence of women's real experiences by showing the actuality of women's lives today.
Download or read book Postnationalism in Chicana o Literature and Culture written by Ellie D. Hernández and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, Chicana/o literary and cultural productions have dramatically shifted from a nationalist movement that emphasized unity to one that openly celebrates diverse experiences. Charting this transformation, Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture looks to the late 1970s, during a resurgence of global culture, as a crucial turning point whose reverberations in twenty-first-century late capitalism have been profound. Arguing for a postnationalism that documents the radical politics and aesthetic processes of the past while embracing contemporary cultural and sociopolitical expressions among Chicana/o peoples, Hernández links the multiple forces at play in these interactions. Reconfiguring text-based analysis, she looks at the comparative development of movements within women's rights and LGBTQI activist circles. Incorporating economic influences, this unique trajectory leads to a new conception of border studies as well, rethinking the effects of a restructured masculinity as a symbol of national cultural transformation. Ultimately positing that globalization has enhanced the emergence of new Chicana/o identities, Hernández cultivates important new understandings of borderlands identities and postnationalism itself.
Download or read book Postfeminisms written by Ann Brooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once seen as synonymous with "anti-feminism" postfeminism i now understood as the theoretical meeting ground between feminism and anti-foundationalist movements such as postmodernism, post-structuralism and post-colonialsm. In this clear exposition of some of the major debates, theorists and practitioners, Ann Brooks shows how feminism is being redefined for the twenty first century. Individual chapters look at postfeminism in relation to feminist epistemology, Foucault, psychoanalytic theory and semiology postmodernism and postcolonialism, cultural politics, popular culture, film and media, and sexuality and identity For all students looking for guidance through the sometimes murky waters of contemporary feminist theory, this book wil provide a reassuring first port of call.
Download or read book Postnational feminism in third world women s literature written by Hena Ahmad and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Feminist Conversations written by Dovile Budryte and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a wealth of knowledge about addressing women's social and political issues and discusses some of the most striking examples of democratization. Women across all cultural lines will feel empowered to re-ignite our movement towards an egalitarian society transcending all boundaries and barriers.--T. V. Means, Ph.D.
Download or read book Mediating Post Socialist Femininities written by Nadia Kaneva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this collection of essays examines the ways in which popular media re-construct ideas and ideals of femininity in the post-socialist cultural space. The authors explore a comprehensive range of questions including: How have post-socialist women engaged with media as media producers and consumers, as well as objects of media representation? What are the consequences of the commodification of femininity in the post-socialist context? How does the female body serve as a battleground for the enactment and renegotiation of gendered identities and ideologies? How can we understand and theorize post-socialist women’s activist movements? In seeking answers to such questions, this volume highlights the need to reconsider feminism as a political and theoretical project with many faces. It bridges research on the mediation of post-socialist femininities with broader concerns about the transnational trajectories of feminism today. This book was originally published as a special issue of Feminist Media Studies.
Download or read book Transitions Environments Translations written by Joan W. Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Transitions, Environments, Translations explore the varied meanings of feminism in different political, cultural, and historical contexts. They respond to the claim that feminism is Western in origin and universalist in theory, and to the assumption that feminist goals are self-evident and the same in all contexts. Rather than assume that there is a blueprint by which to measure the strength or success of feminism in different parts of the world, these essays consider feminism to be a site of local, national and international conflict. They ask: What is at stake in various political efforts by women in different parts of the world? What meanings have women given to their efforts? What has been their relationship to feminism--as a concept and as an international movement? What happens when feminist ideas are translated from one language, one political context, to another?
Download or read book Feminist Trouble written by Éléonore Lépinard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY NC ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Feminism is in trouble. For more than two decades, Islamic veils, niqabs, and burkinis, forced and arranged marriages, polygamy and Sharia rules concerning women have been the object of intense public scrutiny and legal regulations in many Western countries, especially in Europe, and feminists have been actively engaged on both sides of the debates. In Feminist Trouble, Éléonore Lépinard draws on extended fieldwork with numerous women's organizations in France and Quebec. Giving voice to women of color and white women, Lépinard dissects hierarchies of privilege, in particular whiteness, in feminist politics, grappling with Islam and Islamic veiling debates to understand how these changes have transformed contemporary feminist movements, intersectional politics, and the feminist collective subject. A critical look at feminism, its divisions, and its future, Feminist Trouble argues that feminism should not be centered around an identity-women-but should instead focus on a feminist ethic of responsibility which reckons with power asymmetries and requires women to prioritize their ethical responsibility to the feminist project.
Download or read book Postnational Feminism in the Postmodern Novels of Transnational Women Writers written by Amy Aroopala and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the modern European novel can reconcile nationalist sentiment with feminist concerns, the contemporary literature of globalization often represents new subjectivities that ultimately privilege either postcolonial nationalism or Western feminism, resulting in debates between postcolonial nationalists and feminists. This dissertation intervenes in these debates by considering how both nationalist and Western feminist discourses rely on a Western Enlightenment “self”/“Other” binary opposition that constructs identity around a single characteristic, like nationality or gender, and marginalizes others. Because transnationalism often intensifies nationalist sentiments, transnational women can feel particularly conflicted by these concerns. Thus, I consider how some transnational women writers avail themselves of a postmodern understanding of multiple subjectivities, new conceptions of time and space, and the possibilities of nonstandard language and experimental forms to reconfigure nationalism and feminism, destabilizing this “self”/ “Other” binary and creating a space of “postnational feminism.” Chapter Two compares the modern novel Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre to Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf and considers how the notion of a unified, centered subject, based on a “self”/ “Other” binary, leads to conflicting nationalist and feminist sentiments in the contemporary era of globalization. However, the multiple subjectivities in Kahf’s novel deconstruct this binary and present Islam as a postnational feminist alternative to nationalism. Chapter Three then considers how a Western Enlightenment sense of time and space creates the modern nation and excludes all kinds of differences, like those of gender and sexuality. While Salman Rushdie’s postmodern destabilization of “the nation” maintains the “self”/ “Other” binary in gender construction, Ameena Meer’s Bombay Talkie dismantles it in terms of nation and gender, depicting what the time and space of postnational feminism looks like. Chapter Four analyzes how language and form affect this binary by comparing two memoirs, Bharati Mukherjee’s Days and Nights in Calcutta and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee. While Mukherjee’s realistic narrative employs standard form and language and repeats Orientalist depictions of Indian women, Cha regards standard language and literary form as hostile to difference. In her use of nonstandard language and experimental forms, she merges “self” with “Other” and illustrates how it enables postnational feminism.
Download or read book Feminist Post Development Thought written by Kriemild Saunders and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at a conference held 1998 at the City University of New York.
Download or read book European Others written by Fatima El-Tayeb and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the complications of race, religion, sexuality, and gender in Europeanizing from below
Download or read book Learning Gender after the Cold War written by Ioana Cîrstocea and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role and place of feminist politics in the transformation of the former socialist world and points out the geopolitical mechanisms involved in the deployment of technocratic norms, expert discourses, activist repertoires and academic knowledge on women’s rights and gender equality in the 1990s-2000s. Based on an interdisciplinary approach and scrutinizing transnational flows of people, resources and ideas, the analysis brings together themes and spaces that have been disconnected in previous scholarship. It sheds light on the integration of feminist resources into contemporary governance through complex entanglements of international aid to democratization, “activism beyond borders” and systemic transformation of higher education.The book will be of interest to researchers and students of sociology, political science, gender studies, and East-European studies.
Download or read book Gender Sex and the Postnational Defense written by Annica Kronsell and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a feminist constructivist institutional approach the author explores how gender aspects and UN SCR 1325 has influenced the way that the post-national defense organizes its practices and the policies pursued.
Download or read book Transnational Feminist Politics Education and Social Justice written by Sheila L. Macrine and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes on Contributors -- Foreword, Antonia Darder (Loyola Marymount University, USA) Acknowledgements -- Introduction, Sheila L. Macrine (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA) and Silvia Edling (University of Gṽle, Sweden) -- Part I: Overviews, Challenges and Possibilities -- 1. Borders and Bridges: Securitized Regimes, Racialized Citizenship, and Insurgent Feminist Praxis, Chandra Talpade Mohanty ( Syracuse University, USA) -- 2. The Refugee Crisis is a Feminist Issue, Sheila L. Macrine (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA) and Silvia Edling (University of Gṽle, Sweden) -- 3. How the Neoliberal Ultraconservative Alliance in Brazil Threatens Women's Lives: Learning to Fight and Survive , Inny Accioly (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil) -- 4. The Antidemocratic Fantasmatic Logic of Right-Wing Populism: Theoretical Reflections, Gundula Ludwig (Bremen University, Germany) -- 5. Technologies of Surveillance: A Transnational Black Feminist Analysis, K. Melchor Quick Hall ( Fielding Graduate University, USA ) -- 6. Hot Rockin' Vampires on Skateboards: Neoliberalism's Feminism, Robin Truth Goodman (( Florida State University, USA) -- Part II: Contextualizations, Education and the Teacher Profession -- 7. Feminism and Anti-feminism in Sweden, in the Wake of #MeToo, Sarah Ljungquist (University of Gṽle, Sweden) -- 8. Suppression of Teacher's Voices: Agency and Freedom within Neoliberal Masculinist Performativity, Geraldine Mooney Simmies (University of Limerick, Ireland) -- 9. Marias, Marielles, Mals̊: Southern Epistemologies, Resistance and Emancipation, Maria Luiza Süssekind (ANPEd, Brazil) and Ines Barbosa de Oliveira (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) -- 10. The Greek Crisis and the Gender Gap: Reinforcing Connections between Education and Women's Empowerment, Maria Nikolakaki (University of Peloponnese, Greece) -- 11. The Emergence of the Anti-Gender Agenda in Swedish Higher Education, Guadalupe Francia (University of Gṽle, Sweden) -- Conclusion, Silvia Edling (University of Gṽle, Sweden) and Sheila L. Macrine (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA).
Download or read book Feminist Post Liberalism written by Judith A. Baer and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminism and liberalism need each other, argues Judith Baer. Her provocative book, Feminist Post-Liberalism, refutes both conservative and radical critiques. To make her case, she rejects classical liberalism in favor of a welfare—and possibly socialist—post-liberalism that will prevent capitalism and a concentration of power that reinforces male supremacy. Together, feminism and liberalism can better elucidate controversies in American politics, law, and society. Baer emphasizes that tolerance and self-examination are virtues, but within both feminist and liberal thought these virtues have been carried to extremes. Feminist theory needs liberalism's respect for reason, while liberal theory needs to incorporate emotion. Liberalism focuses too narrowly on the individual, while feminism needs a dose of individualism. Feminist Post-Liberalism includes anthropological foundations of male dominance to explore topics ranging from crime to cultural appropriation. Baer develops a theory that is true to the principles of both feminist and liberal ideologies.
