...Robyn Marasco This essay borrows the term “womanly nihilism” from an antifeminist misreading of Simone de Beauvoir in order to better understand her politics and philosophy and rethink her legacy for contemporary feminism. Through a close reading of The Ethics of Ambiguity and key chapters from...

...: nationalism, populism, and feminism. In my essay, I begin by showing how Spanish public discourse tends to situate all three on a single continuum, identifying their intersections in negative terms as a potentially disruptive excess that must be controlled, if not eliminated, to avoid a crisis of democracy...

... that cut across literary studies, intellectual history, social theory, political theory, film studies, social movements, and feminism, among other fields. The issue serves simultaneously as a primer on and a contribution to our understanding of how the 2008 global financial crisis has impacted social...

..., poetics, and feminist criticism, DuPlessis reflects broadly on her career in this interview. She discusses the ongoing role of feminism in her writing and thought, the forms of the fold and the fragment, the relationship between her poetry and criticism, her work in and on the long poem, and her post...

... account of Irish second-­wave feminism from 1970 to 1990 adheres to the four-­stage phased development of that movement identified by the femi- nist academic and activist Ailbhe Smyth (Smyth 1993: 254–69). Organiza- tions such as the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement (founded in 1970) 238 boundary 2...

... / Spring 2013 sion of Muslim women is how familiar it seems, even if the rhetorical garb is occasionally dusted and refreshed with some new theoretical ribbons. Perhaps fitna is additionally interesting to Scott because it offers a principle of sexual regulation appealing to a feminism suspicious...

.... Trans. Henry Pickford. Meridian. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999. Moghissi, Haideh. Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmod- ern Analysis. New York: Zed, 1999...

... Caribbean. A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. Gilman, Sander L. Franz Kafka. Critical Lives. London: Reaktion Books, 2005. Grewal, Inderpal. Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms. Next Wave: New Directions in Women’s Studies. Durham, N.C...

... at Boise State University. She has published on postcolonial theory, literature, and feminism, as well as the new eighteenth century. She, Renu Dube, and Reena Dube have collaborated on a book manuscript, Female Infanticide in India: A Feminist Cultural History, which is forthcoming in January, 2005...

... himself as “extremely ‘conservative’: against abortion, experiments on foetuses, against any idea that homosexuality can be the subject of equal rights, in favour of the importance of sexual difference, critical of liberal feminism, and holding the opinion that the separation of sex...

... agenda of global gay politics.1 The employ- ment of gender and sexuality as alibis for legitimizing violence against reli- gious groups, especially Muslims, has opened up fundamental questions regarding the future of feminism and of queer emancipatory politics. Even as I support the critique...

... 2004 Books Received Arredondo, Gabriela F., Aída Huntado, Norman Klahn, Olga Nájera-Ramírez, and Patricia Zavella, eds. Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader. Durham, N.C., and Lon- don: Duke University Press, 2003. Arsic´, Branka. The Passive Eye: Gaze and Subjectivity in Berkeley...

...: University Press of Virginia, 2000. Sandoval, Chela. Methodology of the Oppressed. Theory Out of Bounds. Minneapo- lis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. Schiebinger, Londa, ed. Feminism and the Body. Oxford Readings in Feminism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Scott, Allen J. The Cultural...

... University Press, 2000. Cornell, Drucilla, ed. Feminism and Pornography. Oxford Readings in Feminism. Ox- ford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Deleuze, Gilles. Proust and Signs: The Complete Text. Trans. Richard Howard. Theory Out of Bounds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000...

... Feminisms. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2008. Bartkowski, Frances. Kissing Cousins: A New Kinship Bestiary. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. Bauerlein, Mark. The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t...

..., Revised and Expanded. Ed. Mark Poster. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. Bauer, Nancy. Simone de Beauvoir: Philosophy, and Feminism. New York and Chi- chester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 2001. Beck, John. Writing the Radical Center: William Carlos Williams, John Dewey...

... in the postbubble 90s but in earlier decades, during the heyday of the so-called general middle-class society ( ichioku sōchūryū shakai ). © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 feminism postbubble Japan general middle-class society neoliberal competition Feminine Aspiration, Feminine Malaise: Kirino...

... University Press 2015 photography feminism labor recession Japan Unraveling Visions: Women’s Photography in Recessionary Japan Gabriella Lukacs In 2000, Japan’s most prestigious photography award, the Kimura Ihei Award...

... Arizona University, the North American center for university instruction in wood-fired ceramics. contemporary Chinese ceramics feminism and crafts elements chance and randomness in art Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 ...

.... Stephens, Paul. The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Con- ceptual Writing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Wark, McKenzie. Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene. New York: Verso, 2015. Wilson, Elizabeth A. Gut Feminism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press...