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Alys Eve Weinbaum is Professor of English at the University of Washington,¿author of Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought, and coeditor of The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization, both also published by Duke University Press.
List of contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Human Reproduction and the Slave Episteme 1
1. The Surrogacy/Slavery Nexus 29
2. Black Feminism as a Philosophy of History 61
3. Violent Insurgency, or "Power to the Ice Pick" 88
4. The Problem of Reproductive Freedom in Neoliberalism 111
5. A Slave Narrative for Postracial Times 147
Epilogue. The End of Men and the Black Womb of the World 177
Notes 187
Bibliography 243
Index 275
About the author
Alys Eve Weinbaum is Professor of English at the University of Washington, author of Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought, and coeditor of The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization, both also published by Duke University Press.
Summary
Alys Eve Weinbaum investigates the continuing resonances of Atlantic slavery in the cultures and politics of human reproduction that characterize contemporary capitalism, showing how black feminist thought offers the best means through which to understand the myriad ways slavery continues to haunt the present.
