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Informationen zum Autor Robyn Wiegman is Professor of Women’s Studies and Literature at Duke University. She is the author of American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender, editor of Women’s Studies on Its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change, and coeditor of The Futures of American Studies, all published by Duke University Press. Klappentext 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 womens 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 a sustained inquiry into the hope it generates, the thinking it inspires, and the conformity it inadvertently demands. Zusammenfassung Examining debates in interdisciplinary identity studies! this title studies debates in Women's Studies! American Studies! Queer Theory and Whiteness studies! especially at points when the key terms changed! as happened when Women's Studies was superseded by Gender Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction: How to Read This Book 1 1. Doing Justice with Objects: Or, the "Progress" of Gender 36 2. Telling Time: When Feminism and Queer Theory Diverge 91 3. The Political Conscious: Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity 137 4. Refusing Identification: Americanist Pursuits of Global Noncomplicity 197 5. Critical Kinship: Universal Aspirations and Intersectional Judgments 239 6. The Vertigo of Critique: Rethinking Heteronormativity 301 Bibliography 345 Index 391
