Unassimilable Feminisms

Reappraising Feminist, Womanist, and Mestiza Identity Politics
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-349-38465-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 332 g

Reihe: Breaking Feminist Waves

In an important new book, Laura Gillman argues that in this post-identity politics era, identities can still yield reliable knowledge. Focusing on womanist and mestiza theoretical writings, literary texts, and popular cultural representations, Gillman advances a comparative theoretical model of identity and consciousness that foregrounds a naturalist-realist account. She demonstrates that reason and knowledge originate from diverse human practices enacted in the social and natural world and can be explained and justified entirely in terms of them.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gillman, L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Feministische Philosophie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Re-conceptualizing Identity Politics in a Post Identity Politics Age Reimagining Identity Politics in the New Millennium: A Postpositivist Realist Approach Womanisms at the Interstices of Disciplines, Movements, Periodizations, and Nations Story-telling as Embodied Knowledge: Womanist Praxis in Alice Walker's The Color Purple Latina/o Mestizaje/Mulatez: Vexed Histories, Ambivalent Symbolisms, and Radical Revisions Constructing Identity(ies) through lo Cotidiano /Every Day Practice: A Postpositivist Realist Approach to Popular Spatial Traditions in Amalia Mesa-Bains' Domesticana Aesthetic, Ada María Isasi-Díaz's Mujerista Theology, and Ana Castillo's So Far from God

Über Autor(innen)

LAURA GILLMAN is Associate Professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies at Virginia Tech, USA.