Search Results for twenty-first-century feminism

...Nancy Fraser This essay explores the possibility for twenty-first-century feminism to retrieve the insurrectionary spirit of women's liberation. It begins by charting the shift from a feminist imaginary focused on egalitarian redistribution to a feminist imaginary founded on recognition of cultural...

... invocation of sisterhood as powerful and forever is far less viable. So, is sisterhood all bad for twenty‐first‐century feminisms? In this essay, I return to bell hooks's formulations of sisterhood as a pedagogy of political solidarity to ask, what kind of solidarity is possible under the rubric...

...- ern culture were revealed in all their “fabulous constructedness.” Far from a sign that its universalizing project (“sisterhood”) had failed, this self- reflexivity was a critical gesture that feminism’s involvement in mass cul- ture made possible. In the twenty-first century, digital...

..., and Sexuality Studies from Georgia State University and a BA in Women's Studies from Emory University. Her dissertation project, “In Search of Our Mothers’ Freedom: Examining the Felt Life of Black Motherhood,” centers Black women's disavowals of motherhood in the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries...

... imagination, one may fancy the schoolmistress of the twenty-fifth century saying to her pupils: Yes, Arnold Bennett and William Wat­ son were their real names. Back in the twentieth century, you see, men wrote some of the novels and poetry; and only a couple of centuries earlier, nearly all literature...

... Thomas . 2014 . Capital in the Twenty-First Century . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Purdy Jedediah . n.d. “Time Bomb.” POLITICO Magazine . www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/07/time-bomb-108556.html (accessed July 19, 2014) . Schmitt Carl . 1997 . Land...

...: to produce a feminist retrospective. Like most decades, mine coincide imperfectly with units of ten. I date academic feminism with the first publications that in the United States mark its beginnings Mary Ellman s Thinking about Women (1968) and Kate Millett s Sexual Politics (1970) but for my own part I...

...Toril Moi Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Toril Moi Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Politics: A Conversation with Juliet Mitchell T\is interview was carried out in Decem­ ber 1993 when Juliet Mitchell was visit­ ing Cornell, for the first time as an A. D. White Professor-At-Large...

... Sun-Hee . 2008 . “ Continuing Significance of the Model Minority Myth: The Second Generation .” Social Justice 35 , no. 2 : 134 – 44 . Piketty Thomas . 2014 . Capital in the Twenty-First Century . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Puwar Nirmal . 2004 . Space...

... “I​ did not lose my baby . . . My baby just died”: Twenty-­First-­Century Discourses of Miscarriage in Political and Historical Context ​Recent estimonies t from women who have miscarried call on the discursive force...

... Church. Feminism and patriarchy, therefore, could represent radically different paths proceeding from a shared desire for an authentic and speedy resolution to a critical situation. The first one is utopian, innovative, and future-oriented; the second predicates its route upon timeless, eternal truth...

... relationship between feminism and socialism and, most of all, she is intrigued by individuals thus, hundreds of thumbnail biographies enliven the book. Steve Hochstadt has provided an appendix containing some demographic data with which to test Robertson s impressionistic conclusions. The first half...

... economy in particular. In the McClanahan and Settell Service Work, Sex Work, and the Prostitute Imaginary 495 work of classical political economists like Adam Smith, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century socialist feminists, and twenty-first century Marx- ists like Fleming, the prostitute...

... Brittany Murray is assistant professor of French at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century French literature, cinema, and culture and migration. Her work has appeared in ASAP/J , EuropeNow , CLCWeb: Comparative Literature...

...Nancy Armstrong Victorian novelists were the first to confront the problem of the relationship between themselves as individuals and what Michel Foucault calls “man-as-species” or “population.” This is a problem for theorists of liberal democracy as well. In his 1975–76 lectures at the Collège de...

... reproduction in the form of Black, indigenous, immigrant, and working-class feminized service labor through the end of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. In addition to this, revitalization projects and increased criminalization in urban areas shrank the available places in which to do street...

... 1 Katherine Rake, Women Must Not Go Back to the Kitchen, Guardian, March 7, 2009, www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/06/women-workplace-equality -recession. 2 See, for example, Anita Harris, Future Girl: Young Women in the Twenty-First Century (London: Routledge, 2004); Angela McRobbie...

...: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century.” In Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature , 149 – 81 . London : Routledge . Halberstam J. Jack . 2012 . Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal . Boston : Beacon . Halberstam J...

.... Remembering these Black feminist analytic and activist efforts to challenge black women's sexual oppression reframes Black feminism as a singular project that calls out white women's racism to a broader liberatory one requiring confrontation with male power writ large and, in particular, Black male violence...

... hundred years of chattel slav- ery in the Americas; and, second, in the current conjuncture—a period stretching back to the birth of biocapitalism in the late 1970s and for- ward into the twenty-first century. My...