Perverse Politics? :Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity - Political Power and Social Theory
Perverse Politics? :Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity - Political Power and Social Theory
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13 April, 2016
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In this special issue, we address what we refer to as 'perversity of the political' or 'perverse politics': namely, the assumptions political theory and movements, and in our specific case feminism, often make on behalf of their subjects, and how their subjects, in return, perform individual and collective contrariness, unruliness and resistance to what is expected or desired from their 'subjectivity'. Specifically focusing on the themes of 'false consciousness', multiplicity, and uneasy alliances, the papers collected here seek to empirically lay out a number of such 'perverse' moments, and offer anti-imperialist feminist alternatives to second wave feminism's often reductive understandings of freedom; emancipation; oppression; empowerment and democracy.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781786350749 |
| ISBN10 | 1786350742 |
| Number Of Pages | 200 |
| Item Weight | 666 g |
| Product Dimensions | 152 x 229 x 17 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Emerald Publishing Limited |
| Format | hardback |
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This is a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal of theory and research called 'Political Power and Social Theory'. The book collects seven chapter-length essays by US contributors, dealing with topics such as armed women in contemporary gun culture, sexuality in postcolonial India, the production of an Islamic backlash against homosexuality in Turkey, and NGO discourses against sex trafficking. -- Annotation * (protoview.com) *
Author's Bio
Edited by Ann Shola Orloff, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA Raka Ray, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA Evren Savci, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA