UID:
edocfu_9959677568002883
Format:
1 online resource (412 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-43120-3
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9786613431202
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0-8223-9494-4
Series Statement:
Next wave : new directions in women's studies
Content:
A passionate advocate of identity studies and a keen reader of U.S. institutional politics, Robyn Wiegman turns her attention in Object Lessons to the critical practices and political ambitions of identity-based fields. In a series of case studies drawn from women s studies, queer studies, ethnic studies, and American studies, she examines the unspoken belief that better theory will produce progressive social change in order to consider the political desire that fuels current scholarly debate. Her metacritical analysis is neither a defense nor a dismissal of such political commitment but
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Doing justice with objects (or, the "progress" of gender) -- Telling time (when feminism and queer theory diverge) -- The political conscious (Whiteness studies and the paradox of particularity) -- Refusing identification (Americanist pursuits of global non-complicity) -- Critical kinship (universal aspirations and intersectional judgments) -- The vertigo of critique (rethinking heteronormativity).
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-5146-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-5160-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822394945
