Alexander / Halberstam / Lowe Pedagogies of Crossing

Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8698-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten

Reihe: Perverse Modernities

A collection of essays by Alexander addressing the implications of transnational thinking for our understanding of gender, sex, sexuality, and race.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alexander, M. Jacqui

Halberstam, Judith

Lowe, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part I: Transnational Erotics: State, Capital, and the Decolonization of Desire

1. Erotic Autonomy as a Politics of Decolonization: Feminism, Tourism, and the State in the Bahamas 21

2. Imperial Desire/Sexual Utopias: White Gay Capital and Transnational Tourism 66

Part II: Maps of Empire, Old and New

3. Whose New World Order? Teaching for Justice 91

4. Anatomy of a Mobilization 117

5. Transnationalism, Sexuality, and the State: Modernity's Traditions at the Height of Empire 181

Part III. Dangerous Memory: Secular Acts, Sacred Possession

6. Remembering This Bridge Called My Back, Remembering Ourselves 725

7. Pedagogies of the Sacred: Making the Invisible Tangible 287

Notes 333

Bibliography 373

Index 395

Über Autor(innen)

M. Jacqui Alexander is Professor of Women’s Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. She is a coeditor of Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray! Feminist Visions for a Just World and Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures.