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Perverse Politics?: Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity
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Description for Perverse Politics?: Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity
Hardback. The papers collected here offer anti-imperialist feminist alternatives to second wave feminism's often reductive understandings of freedom; emancipation; oppression; empowerment and democracy. Editor(s): Orloff, Ann; Savci, Evren. Series Editor(s): Go, Julian. Series: Political Power and Social Theory. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 161 x 237 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
In this special issue, we address what we refer to as 'perversity of the political' or 'perverse politics': namely, the assumptions political theory and movements, and in our specific case feminism, often make on behalf of their subjects, and how their subjects, in return, perform individual and collective contrariness, unruliness and resistance to what is expected or desired from their 'subjectivity'. Specifically focusing on the themes of 'false consciousness', multiplicity, and uneasy alliances, the papers collected here seek to empirically lay out a number of such 'perverse' moments, and offer anti-imperialist feminist alternatives to second wave feminism's often reductive understandings ... Read more
In this special issue, we address what we refer to as 'perversity of the political' or 'perverse politics': namely, the assumptions political theory and movements, and in our specific case feminism, often make on behalf of their subjects, and how their subjects, in return, perform individual and collective contrariness, unruliness and resistance to what is expected or desired from their 'subjectivity'. Specifically focusing on the themes of 'false consciousness', multiplicity, and uneasy alliances, the papers collected here seek to empirically lay out a number of such 'perverse' moments, and offer anti-imperialist feminist alternatives to second wave feminism's often reductive understandings ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Condition
New
Series
Political Power and Social Theory
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Bingley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786350749
SKU
V9781786350749
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About Hardback
Edited by Ann Shola Orloff, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA Raka Ray, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA Evren Savci, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA
Reviews for Perverse Politics?: Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity
This is a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal of theory and research called 'Political Power and Social Theory'. The book collects seven chapter-length essays by US contributors, dealing with topics such as armed women in contemporary gun culture, sexuality in postcolonial India, the production of an Islamic backlash against homosexuality in Turkey, and NGO discourses against sex trafficking.
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