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  • Terrorist Assemblages

    Homonationalism in Queer Times

    by Jasbir K. Puar, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman ...
    Series series Next wave
    In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer subjects into the fold of the nation-state, through developments including the legal recognition inherent in ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Sciences from Below

    Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities

    by Sandra Harding, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around the world. Harding illuminates the idea of multiple modernities as well as the major contributions of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Scandal of the State

    Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India

    by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The Scandal of the State is a revealing study of the relationship between the postcolonial, democratic Indian nation-state and Indian women’s actual needs and lives. Well-known for her work combining feminist theory and postcolonial studies, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan shows how the state is central to understanding women’s identities and how, reciprocally, women and “women’s issues” affect the state’s ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico

    by Jocelyn H. Olcott, Robyn Wiegman, Inderpal Grewal ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico is an empirically rich history of women’s political organizing during a critical stage of regime consolidation. Rebutting the image of Mexican women as conservative and antirevolutionary, Jocelyn Olcott shows women activists challenging prevailing beliefs about the masculine foundations of citizenship. Piecing together material from national and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • No More Separate Spheres!

    A Next Wave American Studies Reader

    by Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    No More Separate Spheres! challenges the limitations of thinking about American literature and culture within the narrow rubric of “male public” and “female private” spheres from the founders to the present. With provocative essays by an array of cutting-edge critics with diverse viewpoints, this collection examines the ways that the separate spheres binary has malingered unexamined in feminist ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves

    How Feminism Travels across Borders

    by Kathy Davis, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    The book Our Bodies, Ourselves is a feminist success story. Selling more than four million copies since its debut in 1970, it has challenged medical dogmas about women’s bodies and sexuality, shaped health care policies, energized the reproductive rights movement, and stimulated medical research on women’s health. The book has influenced how generations of U.S. women feel about their bodies and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Wayward Reproductions

    Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought

    by Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman, Alys Eve Weinbaum ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    Wayward Reproductions breaks apart and transfigures prevailing understandings of the interconnection among ideologies of racism, nationalism, and imperialism. Alys Eve Weinbaum demonstrates how these ideologies were founded in large part on what she calls “the race/reproduction bind”––the notion that race is something that is biologically reproduced. In revealing the centrality of ideas about ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Age of the World Target

    Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work

    by Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman, Rey Chow, PhD ...
    Series series Next Wave Provocations
    Martin Heidegger once wrote that the world had, in the age of modern science, become a world picture. For Rey Chow, the world has, in the age of atomic bombs, become a world target, to be attacked once it is identified, or so global geopolitics, dominated by the United States since the end of the Second World War, seems repeatedly to confirm. How to articulate the problematics of knowledge ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Transnational America

    Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms

    by Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    In Transnational America, Inderpal Grewal examines how the circulation of people, goods, social movements, and rights discourses during the 1990s created transnational subjects shaped by a global American culture. Rather than simply frame the United States as an imperialist nation-state that imposes unilateral political power in the world, Grewal analyzes how the concept of “America” functions as ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Body of War

    Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia

    by Dubravka Žarkov, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    In The Body of War, Dubravka Žarkov analyzes representations of female and male bodies in the Croatian and Serbian press in the late 1980s and in the early 1990s, during the war in which Yugoslavia disintegrated. Žarkov proposes that the Balkan war was not a war between ethnic groups; rather, ethnicity was produced by the war itself. Žarkov explores the process through which ethnicity was ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Lesbian Rule

    Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire

    by Amy Villarejo, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    With hair slicked back and shirt collar framing her young patrician face, Katherine Hepburn's image in the 1935 film Sylvia Scarlett was seen by many as a lesbian representation. Yet, Amy Villarejo argues, there is no final ground upon which to explain why that image of Hepburn signifies lesbian or why such a cross-dressing Hollywood fantasy edges into collective consciousness as a lesbian ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Partners in Conflict

    The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973

    by Heidi Tinsman, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labor and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile’s latifundia system of traditional landed estates and throughout the governments of Eduardo Frei and Salvador Allende. Heidi Tinsman analyzes differences between men’s and women’s participation in Chile’s Agrarian Reform movement and considers how conflicts over ... Read more

    $28.79 USD