Pedagogies of Crossing - Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred

Informationen zum Autor M. Jacqui Alexander is Professor of Women’s Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. She is a coeditor of Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray! Feminist Visions for a Just World and Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures. Klappentext A collection of essays by Alexander addressing the implications of transnational thinking for our understanding of gender, sex, sexuality, and race. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays by Alexander addressing the implications of transnational thinking for our understanding of gender! sex! sexuality! and race Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I: Transnational Erotics: State, Capital, and the Decolonization of Desire 1. Erotic Autonomy as a Politics of Decolonization: Feminism, Tourism, and the State in the Bahamas 21 2. Imperial Desire/Sexual Utopias: White Gay Capital and Transnational Tourism 66 Part II: Maps of Empire, Old and New 3. Whose New World Order? Teaching for Justice 91 4. Anatomy of a Mobilization 117 5. Transnationalism, Sexuality, and the State: Modernity's Traditions at the Height of Empire 181 Part III. Dangerous Memory: Secular Acts, Sacred Possession 6. Remembering This Bridge Called My Back, Remembering Ourselves 725 7. Pedagogies of the Sacred: Making the Invisible Tangible 287 Notes 333 Bibliography 373 Index 395

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• Authors: M. Jacqui Alexander, M.jacqui Alexander
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.01.2006
• EAN: 9780822336457
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3645-7
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities; Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories