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This book presents sixteen essays by feminists of theory and literature. It is useful to academics and students of feminism, gender studies, queer theory, and contemporary literature. Its essays both account for the current state of the field and sub-disciplines they tackle as well as making fresh critical interventions.
List of contents
Introduction Jennifer Cooke; Part I. Frontiers: 1. Radical transfeminism: trans as anti-static ethics escaping neoliberal encapsulation Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift; 2. Graphic witness: visual and verbal testimony in the #me too movement Leigh Gilmore; 3. Trapped in the political real: imagining black motherhood beyond pathology and protest Candice Merritt; 4. Feminism at the borders: migration and representation Emily J. Hogg; 5. Sex work in a post-work imaginary: on abolitionism, careerism, and respectability Helen Hester and Zahra Stardust; 6. The new plutocratic (post)feminism Diane Negra and Hannah Hamad; Part II. Fields: 7. Feminism and literary disability studies Susannah B. Mintz; 8. Feminism's critique of the Anthropocene Samantha Walton; 9. Queer feminism Sam McBean; 10. Social reproduction: new questions for the gender, affect, and substance of value Marina Vishmidt and Zöe Sutherland; Part III. Forms: 11. Feminist dwellings: imagining the domestic in the twenty-first-century literary novel Karen Schaller; 12. Who rules the world?: reimaging the contemporary feminist Dystopia Sarah Dillon; 13. Transnational feminism and the young adult novel Jill Richards; 14. Feminist manuals and manifestos in the twenty-first century Jennifer Cooke; 15. 'This is not a memoir': feminist writings from life Kaye Mitchell; 16. New feminist poetries: the open wound Julie Carr; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Jennifer Cooke is author of Contemporary Feminist Life-writing: The New Audacity (Cambridge, forthcoming) and Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory, and Film (2009) and edited Scenes of Intimacy: Reading, Writing and Theorizing Contemporary Literature (2013) and a special issue of Textual Practice (September 2013). She chairs the Gendered Lives Research Group.
Summary
This book presents sixteen essays by feminists of theory and literature. It is useful to academics and students of feminism, gender studies, queer theory, and contemporary literature. Its essays both account for the current state of the field and sub-disciplines they tackle as well as making fresh critical interventions.
