... way bare life is implicated in the gendered, class, colonial, and racist configurations of the political and, because of this implication, suffers different forms of violence. The central paradox bare life presents for political analysis is not only the erasure of political distinctions but also the...

...Joshua Clover; Juliana Spahr This essay begins with two examples where certain precapitalist material entanglements were taken up and transformed by capital. One is the Hawaiian creation chant, the Kumulipo, and the complicated ecotones that define that poem. The other is gender. Neither ecotones...

... how gender simultaneously exposes the biological continuity underlying these different models of collectivity and transforms that continuity into difference. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 Nancy Armstrong Gender Must Be Defended ​In acknowledging a debt to...

...Nichole T. Rustin 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Nichole T. Rustin ‘‘Mary Lou Williams Plays Like a Man Gender, Genius, and Difference in Black Music Discourse Music is work. The work ranges from the daily practice sessions to the...

... colony. Melissa Wright has added that the politics of gender is central to the politics of death. She highlights state officials' efforts to assign meaning to the bodies of the slain as critical to the successful operation of necropower and argues that activists can contest attempts to mark the dead as...

... for everyone thus necessarily entails rethinking attitudes toward elimination as an aspect of our embodiment. © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 bathroom access disgust gender toilet transgender References Ashenburg Katherine . 2007 . The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History . New York...

... guaranteeing trans* people access to gender-appropriate toilets. The current backlash against trans* people using public toilets that match their gender identity reflects a longer history of public toilets, which themselves date to early eighteenth-century Paris, and registers social anxieties grounded in...

...Tomiko Yoda 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Tomiko Yoda The Rise and Fall of Maternal Society: Gender, Labor, and Capital in Contemporary Japan The notion that Japan...

... historical moment. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Judith A. Byfield Finding Voice, Giving Voice: Gender, Politics, and Social Change What makes intellectual work “black”? Does one have to be black to do black intellectual...

...Patrick Greaney This essay examines how key Situationist concepts—the spectacle and détournement —are gendered. The first half of the essay presents these concepts along with a discussion of Asger Jorn's and Isidore Isou's gendered theories of creation and a reading of the figure of Jack the...

... production—including theory, history, and fiction written in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s—constitutes the principal philosophy of history adequate to the task of revealing this particular feature of the gendered afterlife of slavery and, too, of imagining alternatives to it. Black feminist production should...

...Marie-Claire Vallois 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Translated by John Galvin and Marie-Claire Vallois Marie-Claire Vallois Gendering the Revolution: Language, Politics, and the Birth of a Nation (1789–1795...

... the 1970s but is also judged to typify that period by virtue of her (in)famous conceptualization of women as a class. This essay undertakes a close reading of Delphy's writings on gender together with her earlier work on women as social class to elaborate what I term her constructivist materialism : a...

... essay revisits a debate about gender and Marxism that took place in the party after the October Revolution of 1964, which led to the enfranchisement of women as full-fledged citizens. This debate pitted Abdel Khaliq Mahgoub, secretary of the SCP, and Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim, a member of the Political...

...L. H. Stallings This creative, critical piece uses wild theory to address camp and camp scholarship for its lackluster attention to issues of race, embodied experience, and appropriation as it imagines a universal monolithic gay identity that erases cultural differences culled from race and gender...

... considered well-established democracies. The following essay contributes to these attempts from a feminist perspective. Given that questions of gender, family, and sexuality figure prominently within contemporary right-wing movements, but so far are rarely addressed in works drawing on the Frankfurt School...

... exchange of intellectuals, research paradigms, and theoretical models. The second part of the essay turns to a discussion of what made these comparisons pertinent. The defense of racial capitalism relied on gender and race discourses that put the responsibility for maintaining the prestige of the white...

... Coraline as the Beldam, a wicked witch who lives outside yet supports the materialist and gender-normative fantasies of Coraline 's world. Evoking this instability through stop-motion animation and digital 3-D cinematography, Coraline invites the spectator to meditate on the psychic dynamics of...

...Christine Delphy This text, which is translated here for the first time in English, is taken from the “Preface” to The Main Enemy, Volume Two: Thinking Gender (2001). It is a companion piece to the 1993 essay “Rethinking Sex and Gender” (first published in French in 1991). © 2015 Duke University...

... potential to reinscribe and renaturalize within the juridical domain sexual and gender notions that have become obsolete. This essay looks at how homosexual marriage law in France, from which an amendment was dropped that would have allowed medically assisted procreation for nonheterosexual couples, is used...