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By placing the global and the intimate in near relation, sixteen essays by prominent feminist scholars and authors forge a distinctively feminist approach to questions of transnational relations, economic development, and intercultural exchange. This pairing enables personal modes of writing and engagement with globalization debates and forges a definition of justice keyed to the specificity of time, place, and feeling. Writing from multiple disciplinary and geographical perspectives, the contributors participate in a long-standing feminist tradition of upending spatial hierarchies and making theory out of the practices of everyday life.
Balancing feminist theory's commitment to the everyday with a keen understanding of the structures that shape lives, The Global and the Intimate demonstrates how the site-specific material practices undertaken by embodied agents both connect with and affect other people and places across the globe. It is a richly textured book that merits a wide audience while inviting a reconsideration of hierarchies of space and scale and their relevance to feminist investigations. -- Sallie Marston, University of Arizona
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction: The Global and the Intimate | p. 1 |
| The Anatomy of Intimacy: Bodies, Feelings, and the Everyday | |
| Intimacy: A Useful Category of Transnational Analysis | p. 31 |
| In the Interests of Taste and Place: Economies of Attachment | p. 57 |
| Jamaica Kincaid's Practical Politics of the Intimate in My Garden (book) | p. 85 |
| Widening Circles | p. 105 |
| Memory, History, Community: Personal Narrative in a Transnational Frame | |
| Facing: Intimacy Across Divisions | p. 119 |
| Objects of Return | p. 145 |
| Narratives and Rights: Zlata's Diary and the Circulation of Stories of Suffering Ethnicity | p. 168 |
| Letter from Argentina | p. 186 |
| Legislating Intimacy: Women's Work, State Control, and the Politics of Reputation | |
| "Security Moms" in Twenty-First-Century U.S A.: The Gender of Security in Neoliberalism | p. 195 |
| "Like a Family, But Not Quite": Emotional Labor and Cinematic Politics of Intimacy | p. 211 |
| What We Women Talk About When We Talk About Interracial Love | p. 232 |
| The Pedagogy of the Spiral: Intimacy and Captivity in a Women's Prison | p. 143 |
| Global Feminism and the Subjects of Knowledge | |
| Witnessing, Femicide, and a Politics of the Familiar | p. 267 |
| Solidarity, Self-Critique, and Survival: SangtinÆs Struggles with Fieldwork | p. 289 |
| Tehran Kids | p. 305 |
| List of Contributors | p. 311 |
| Index | p. 317 |
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ISBN: 9780231154499
ISBN-10: 0231154496
Series: Gender and Culture Series
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
For Ages: 22+ years old
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 344
Published: 1st May 2012
Dimensions (cm): 22.6 x 15.5
x 1.91
Weight (kg): 0.462
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