Perverse Politics?
Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity
Published on 13. April 2016
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-78635-074-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
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) *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bingley
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Limited
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
451 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78635-074-9 (9781786350749)
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Ann Shola Orloff | Raka Ray | Evren Savci
Perverse Politics?
Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity
E-Book
04/2016
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
€97.49
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Persons
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
Raka Ray, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Evren Savci, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA
Content
Introduction: Perverse Politics? Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity - Ann Shola Orloff, Raka Ray and Evren Savc?
Perverse Humanitarianism and the Business of Rescue: What's Wrong with NGOs and What's Right about the "Johns"? - Kimberly Kay Hoang
Redemptive Capitalism and Sexual Investability - Elizabeth Bernstein
Troubling the Subject of Violence: The Pacifist Presumption, Martial Maternalism, and Armed Women in Contemporary Gun Culture - Jennifer Carlson
Feminism/s in Power: Rethinking Gender Equality after the Second Wave - Ann Shola Orloff and Talia Shiff
Contextualizing the Closet: NAZ, Law, and Sexuality in Postcolonial India - Savina Balasubramanian
Subjects of Rights and Subjects of Cruelty: The Production of an Islamic Backlash against Homosexuality in Turkey - Evren Savc?
Perverse Humanitarianism and the Business of Rescue: What's Wrong with NGOs and What's Right about the "Johns"? - Kimberly Kay Hoang
Redemptive Capitalism and Sexual Investability - Elizabeth Bernstein
Troubling the Subject of Violence: The Pacifist Presumption, Martial Maternalism, and Armed Women in Contemporary Gun Culture - Jennifer Carlson
Feminism/s in Power: Rethinking Gender Equality after the Second Wave - Ann Shola Orloff and Talia Shiff
Contextualizing the Closet: NAZ, Law, and Sexuality in Postcolonial India - Savina Balasubramanian
Subjects of Rights and Subjects of Cruelty: The Production of an Islamic Backlash against Homosexuality in Turkey - Evren Savc?