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1 online resource (vii, 325 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Gender and culture
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Gender and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Global and the Intimate; I THE ANATOMY OF INTIMACY; 1. Intimacy: A Useful Category of Transnational Analysis; 2. In the Interests of Taste and Place: Economies of Attachment; 3. Jamaica Kincaid's Practical Politics of the Intimate in My Garden (Book); 4. Widening Circles; II MEMORY, HISTORY, COMMUNITY; 5. Facing: Intimacy Across Divisions; 6. Objects of Return; 7. Narratives and Rights: Zlata's Diary and the Circulation of Stories of Suffering Ethnicity; 8. Letter from Argentina; III LEGISLATING INTIMACY. |
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""Security Moms"" in Twenty-First-Century U.S.A.: The Gender of Security in Neoliberalism10. ""LIke a Family, Byt Not Quite"": Emotional Labor and Cinematic Politics of Intimacy; 11. What We Women Talk About When We Talk About Interracial Love; 12. The Pedagogy of the Spiral: Intimacy and Captivity in a Women's Prison; IV GLOBAL FEMINISM AND THE SUBJECTS OF KNOWLEDGE; 13. Witnessing, Femicide, and a Politics of the Familiar; 14. Solidarity, Self-Critique, and Survival: Sangtin's Struggles with Fieldwork; 15. Tehran Kids; Contributors; Index. |
| Summary |
Sixteen essays by prominent feminist scholars and authors establish new paths in the study of intimacy and globalization, challenging globalization's grand narratives and their representation of women as either victims of forced migration or local actors of limited influence. These essays intervene in grand narratives of global relations by focusing on the specific, the quotidian, the affective, and the eccentric. They scrutinize the frames we use to recognize and organize intimacy and analyze the global forces that undergird personal experience and exchange. Writing from multiple. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Feminism -- Case studies.
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Feminism. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Subject |
Intimacy (Psychology) -- Case studies.
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Intimacy (Psychology) |
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Pratt, Geraldine.
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Rosner, Victoria.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Global and the intimate. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012 9780231154482 (DLC) 2012003963 (OCoLC)776773223 |
| ISBN |
9780231520843 (electronic book) |
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0231520840 (electronic book) |
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9780231154482 |
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0231154488 |
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9780231154499 |
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0231154496 |
| Music No. |
EB00662606 Recorded Books |
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