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...Lisa Diedrich Let me begin with Perry’s Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation because its critical reanimation challenge is perhaps the most daunting and audacious of the three. The “vexy thing” of the title is apparently patriarchy . It seems emblematic of the problem of reanimating this very...

..., it seems reasonable to assume that Morrison fictionally represents an often overlooked chapter of African American history so that she may reexamine the issue of black patriarchy and its relationship to (white) American society through its most influential imperial narrative to date: the ongoing story...

... nearly any discussion of the manifesto ties it to the Warhol shooting, suggests that artistic autonomy is impossible for women and nonbinary artists, and texts are articulated in the context of patriarchy and the gender binary. Though many cite it as fact, there is no real evidence that SCUM stands...

...- times inspirational and independent, and simultaneously as implicated in the reproduction of . . . patriarchy’’ (194). Tseng 2001.5.22 13:00 Book Reviews 439...

... which concern the duality of the ‘‘mother-figure (and thus of home) as some- times inspirational and independent, and simultaneously as implicated in the reproduction of . . . patriarchy’’ (194). Tseng 2001.5.22 13:00 ...

... and violence enacted by white supremacist capitalist patriarchy” (63). And while Funk the Erotic is “a book that is about funk, but not funk music,” the book masterfully weds funk (as philosophy) with theories of black sexuality and black sexual cultures (1–2). While Stallings impressively rethinks black...

... are sometimes complicit in their own oppression by black patriarchy and often perpetuate the oppression of marginalized women in their own communities—as is the case with the lesbian couple in Naylor’s novel—Melancon echoes David Ikard’s argument in Breaking the Silence: Toward Black Male Feminism (2007). Her...

... of victimization and the reclaiming of manhood. Such a ‘‘deformed black male subject’’ (17) tries to achieve the autonomy and privi- leges of white patriarchy, without questioning its often misogynist and vio- lent mythic...

.... She does not aim merely to critique patriarchy in the immigrant world but to criticize a broader temporality of assimilationist America and the way it marginalizes immigrant women. Yezierska was well familiar with the Yiddish theater and its repertoire. In a letter to her close friend Rose Pastor...

... claims on their identification and time. By the early 1970s, some of the most visible polemicists of the new feminism were redescribing war as an export of US patriarchy in order to discourage women from antiwar work. In the 1960s Rich had helped organize readings for the antiwar movement; in her 1973...

... York : Oxford Univ. Press . Edwards Brent Hayes . 2003 . The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . Enloe Cynthia H. 1991 . “Womenandchildren: Propaganda Tools of Patriarchy.” In Mobilizing...

... . Weizenbaum Joseph . 1976 . Computer Power and Human Reason . New York : W.H. Freeman and Company . Can any flavor of communitarian ethics withstand the digitally mediated imperatives of a materialist scientism working in the service of patriarchy, parochialism, and profit? AI systems...

... Romero ( 1997 : 7–23, 72–78) regards Beecher as a figure of “bio-political resistance,” who encouraged women to wrest control of their bodies from the patriarchy, and “bodily economy” as a trope of proportionality and wholeness within a “micropolitical framework.” Few have focused on the material...

... creative writer, Jack Torrance, is haunted by the specter of the large and omnibus Overlook Hotel. As an instance of the overdetermined gothic subgenre of the haunted house, The Shining has supported many different interpretations; scholars have read it as a critique of capitalism, patriarchy...

... that Wright developed a nuanced critique of patriarchy in conjunction with racialized, capitalist exploitation. Attempting to conceptualize radical praxis, Wright grappled with the ideological contradictions between Communism...

... the fragility of patriarchy (grandfathers). The girl’s three-legged chair is recalled in “Thirty-three,” where a girl with one leg, seeming to hop with the support of a post, is passing before rows of kegs that the “Contents” locate on a “Sugar & molasses landing, front of Sugar Exchange, New Orleans...

... Coupland’s Girlfriend in a Coma, and an essay by Sarah Wood explores the intersection of religion and patriarchy in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. 870 American Literature August Wilson: Completing the Twentieth-Century Cycle. Ed. Alan Nadel. Iowa City...

... that this resistance produces the distinction between the open-form notes on women “think[ing] / for one another” and the diary documenting Fuller’s internal struggles with the print patriarchy. Significantly, the diary entry’s editorial angst is not articulated as sheepish timidity but as a woman’s resistant role...

... than the broader patriarchy to address specifically how the antebellum public linked women’s identities to the spaces in which they were conceptually, if not actually, limited. Here, the shelter is a cognitive metaphor, where “reasoning in abstract domains uses the logic of our sensory-motor...

... to remember its “forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid” in ways that upheld whiteness and patriarchy as its defaults (Roosevelt 1941a : 628). This mode of critique correctly notes that the presence of avatars like Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother (1936) and John Steinbeck’s Tom Joad, who still...