Wayward Reproductions - Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought

Informationen zum Autor Alys Eve Weinbaum is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle. Klappentext An interpretive history of the way competing ideas of reproduction as a biological and sexual process became central to the organization of knowledge about the flow of capital, labor power, human bodies, and babies both within nations and across national Zusammenfassung An interpretive history of the way competing ideas of reproduction as a biological and sexual process became central to the organization of knowledge about the flow of capital! labor power! human bodies! and babies both within nations and across national borders Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Geneaology Unbound: Reproduction and Contestation of the Racial Nation 15 2. Writing Feminist Geneaology: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Reproduction of Racial Nationalism 61 3. Engels’s Originary Ruse: Race and Reproduction in the Story of Capital 106 4. Sexual Selection and the Birth of Psychoanalysis: Darwin, Freud, and the Universalization of Wayward Reproduction 145 5. The Sexual Politics of Black Internationalism: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Reproduction of Racial Globality 187 Coda: Gene/alogies for a New Millennium 227 Notes 247 Works Cited 307 Index 339

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• Authors: Alys Eveweinbaum, Weinbaum, Alys Eve Weinbaum
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.06.2004
• EAN: 9780822333159
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3315-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave; Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology