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Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 67–92.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Tania Aguila-Way This paper takes up the Zapatista “Mother Seeds in Resistance” seed-preservation project as a case study for exploring the interconnections between contemporary biotechnology, biocultural diversity, and cultural institutions such as the archive. Drawing on environmental theories...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 13–24.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Joshua Chambers-Letson Thinking with the work of José Esteban Muñoz, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Pedro Almodóvar’s film All about My Mother , this essay traces a series of transplants, organs, and acts of compensation that occur within all three in order to explore the question of how to address a loss...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 75–113.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Judith A. Peraino In an interview from 1974 David Bowie makes a remarkable statement: “For the West, Jagger is most certainly a mother figure… . I also find him incredibly motherly and maternal clutched into his bosom of ethnic blues.” The image is grotesque—intentionally shocking—yet oddly...
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Published: 01 December 2021
Figure 2. Mir Suhail, Mother, They Write Poems (2018). 2600 × 2100px. Courtesy of the artist. More
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 79–101.
Published: 01 September 2021
...-income, and disabled populations as drains on the state, reframing this discourse as a potential site of coalition among antiracist, anticapitalist, and feminist disability politics. Whereas antiwelfare policy cast independence as a national ideal, this analysis of the welfare mother elaborates a version...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 115–133.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Eun Kyung Min The two most dominant twentieth-century theorizations about the exchange of daughters are Freudian psychoanalysis, which theorizes the psychic, libidinal exchange performed by the daughter of the mother for the father, and Lévi-Straussian anthropology, which theorizes the exchange...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 25–49.
Published: 01 June 2021
... Black women. Specifically, the article examines the case of Luana Barbosa dos Reis, a Black lesbian mother who was beaten to death by police officers in São Paulo in 2016. The article argues that her beating was an act of (un)gendering—a desire to both discipline her as a Black female/mother and erase...
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Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 1. Photograph of postcard depicting the Hellenic Leader , sent by my father to my mother and me. More
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Social Text (2012) 30 (2 (111)): 123–131.
Published: 01 June 2012
... with deconstruction and a feminist-Marxist approach to postcolonialism, has been working with various organizations in Bangladesh for many years. Spivak first went to Bangladesh when she visited one of these rehabilitation centers while she was accompanying her mother, Sivani Chakravorty, and took photographs...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 27–31.
Published: 01 December 2014
... but not abject. Not propertied but shared out, burning and brown. Something else: an unfinished conversation about mothers. It was another thought, a branching out. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 Untitled Jennifer Doyle “The sentence is ruined as soon as I enter it.” That sentence floats...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (3 (76)): 1–37.
Published: 01 September 2003
...David L. Eng David L. Eng 2003 Transnational Adoption and Queer Diasporas Two Mothers David L. Eng Deann Borshay Liem’s 2000 documentary on transnational adoption, First Person Plural...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 13–33.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., and Carlos, who is five. The children are in the care of Lupe’s mother, who is forty-two and recently had another child of her own. Lupe works with her husband in a pizzeria in Red Hook and lives, along with Gabriel and four other men, in an apartment owned by the restaurant’s owner. They work six...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (1 (74)): 111–127.
Published: 01 March 2003
... in the neighborhood. To “keep the kids out of mischief [ para não fazer arte she would come home from school, gather them up, and take them on her daily rounds.8 Everyone, she informed me, pitched in to keep the family going. Her mother often worked as a street-sweeper, earning as much as a minimum salary (around...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (1 (74)): 7–27.
Published: 01 March 2003
... . Parenting and property. In Mothering: Essays in feminist theory , edited by Joyce Treblicot. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Allanheld. Hague Convention. 1993 . Hague conference on private international law, final act of the seventeenth session, 29 May 1993,32 I.L.M. 1134 . Hoelgaard, Suzanne. 1998...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 15–41.
Published: 01 June 2001
.... In a nation whose ideology of inclu- sion has grounded itself in notions of biological, reproductive, and thus genealogical connection, being “American” has often required having been born to a mother descended from an esteemed family whose Anglo- Saxon pedigree...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (2 (151)): 1–20.
Published: 01 June 2022
.../303916/beauty-is-a-method/ . Walker Alice . In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens . San Diego : Harcourt , 1983 . Warren Calvin L. Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2018 . Wiegman Robyn . “ Introduction...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 67–88.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., as well as Koreans and Bolivians. The “Arrest Sweet Arrest” symposium examined a recent policy that extends the “benefit” of house arrest to incarcerated women who are pregnant, mothers, or the primary caregivers of small children. Before this extension of house arrest, incarcerated women who were...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2016
... episode — to cope with the comings and goings of his mother: This good little boy, however, had an occasional disturbing habit of taking any small objects he could get hold of and throwing them away from him into a corner, under the bed...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (1 (74)): 29–55.
Published: 01 March 2003
... is six, makes a list of all the children she knows and begins to Toby Alice identify those among them who are, as she is, adopted. Naming three Volkman other Asian children in her New York City first grade class, she pauses, then shakes her head: “No, but they look adopted.” Isabelle’s mother...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (3 (76)): 39–57.
Published: 01 September 2003
... commitment to put the chil- dren of welfare mothers in orphanages, and thence into white adoptive homes. The cultural backdrop to the discursive contradictions of contempo- rary social reproduction is marked by this persistent dual narrative of the imperative to aid coupled with the certainty...