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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

  • Women's Studies on Its Own

    A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change

    by Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Sneja Gunew ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    "We thought the study of women would be a temporary phase; eventually we would all go back to our disciplines."—Gloria Bowles, From the AfterwordSince the 1970s, Women's Studies has grown from a volunteerist political project to a full-scale academic enterprise. Women's Studies on Its Own assesses the present and future of the field, demonstrating how institutionalization has extended a vital, ... Read more

    $28.79 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

  • No Bond but the Law

    Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780–1870

    by Diana Paton, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    Investigating the cultural, social, and political histories of punishment during ninety years surrounding the 1838 abolition of slavery in Jamaica, Diana Paton challenges standard historiographies of slavery and discipline. The abolition of slavery in Jamaica, as elsewhere, entailed the termination of slaveholders’ legal right to use violence—which they defined as “punishment”—against those they ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Figurations

    Child, Bodies, Worlds

    by Claudia Castañeda, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure. In Figurations, Claudia Castañeda shows how this malleability is itself generated—how the child is "made" by different constituencies and how the resulting historically, geographically, and culturally specific figures are put to widely divergent uses, often to very powerful effect. Situated at the ... Read more

    $22.29 USD