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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Robyn WiegmanPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9780822315919ISBN 10: 0822315912 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 14 April 1995 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsIgnore this book at your peril! Robyn Wiegman challenges us to re-examine our most cherished platitudes about race-and-gender, including the kind of identity politics that not only leave out African American women but also reinscribe a pernicious politics of separate but equal through the celebration of difference. This as a stunning account of racial/gender infusions and confusions in nineteenth- and twentieth-century U. S. culture. Controversial, brilliant, provocative. --Cathy Davidson, Duke University Ignore this book at your peril! Robyn Wiegman challenges us to re-examine our most cherished platitudes about race-and-gender, including the kind of identity politics that not only leave out African American women but also reinscribe a pernicious politics of separate but equal through the celebration of difference. This as a stunning account of racial/gender infusions and confusions in nineteenth- and twentieth-century U. S. culture. Controversial, brilliant, provocative. -Cathy Davidson, Duke University Wiegman goes well beyond current discussions in working out the theoretical challenges and cultural logics of rethinking difference within the postmodern condition, and she correctly pinpoints the overlap of race and gender within feminist theory as a decisive zone of critical articulation between postmodernism and oppositional politics. -Steven Mailloux, University of California, Irvine &quot;Wiegman goes well beyond current discussions in working out the theoretical challenges and cultural logics of rethinking difference within the postmodern condition, and she correctly pinpoints the overlap of race and gender within feminist theory as a decisive zone of critical articulation between postmodernism and oppositional politics.&quot;&mdash;Steven Mailloux, University of California, Irvine A vibrant, perceptive insight into the quest to understand the social hierarchies based on race and gender, the crossroads at which they interact, and the degree to which they influence social climates. <br>--Frances Richardson Keller, American Historical Review Author InformationRobyn Wiegman is Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Indiana University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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