The Global and the Intimate Feminism in Our Time |
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| Editor:
| Pratt, Geraldine
Rosner, Victoria |
| Series title: | Gender and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-15448-2 |
| Publication Date: | May 2012 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $110.00 |
Book Description:
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By placing the global and the intimate in near relation, sixteen essays by prominent feminist scholars and authors forge a distinctively feminist approach to questions of transnational relations, economic development, and intercultural exchange. This pairing enables personal modes of writing and engagement with globalization debates and forges a definition of justice keyed to the specificity of time, place, and feeling. Writing from multiple disciplinary and geographical perspectives,...
More DescriptionBy placing the global and the intimate in near relation, sixteen essays by prominent feminist scholars and authors forge a distinctively feminist approach to questions of transnational relations, economic development, and intercultural exchange. This pairing enables personal modes of writing and engagement with globalization debates and forges a definition of justice keyed to the specificity of time, place, and feeling. Writing from multiple disciplinary and geographical perspectives, the contributors participate in a long-standing feminist tradition of upending spatial hierarchies and making theory out of the practices of everyday life.