ISBN:
1283431203
,
9780822351467
,
9781283431200
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 398 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Next wave
Series Statement:
Next Wave Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Object Lessons
DDC:
301.01
Keywords:
Whites Race identity
;
Queer theory
;
Race
;
Feminist theory
;
Critical theory
;
Group identity
;
Whites -- Race identity
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
A passionate advocate of identity studies and a keen reader of U.S. institutional politics, Robyn Wiegman turns her attention in Object Lessons to the critical practices and political ambitions of identity-based fields. In a series of case studies drawn from women s studies, queer studies, ethnic studies, and American studies, she examines the unspoken belief that better theory will produce progressive social change in order to consider the political desire that fuels current scholarly debate. Her metacritical analysis is neither a defense nor a dismissal of such political commitment but
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: How to Read This Book ; One: Doing Justice with Objects {Or, the "Progress" of Gender} ; Two: Telling Time {When Feminism and Queer Theory Diverge} ; Three: The Political Conscious {Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity} ; Four: Refusing Identification {Americanist Pursuits of Global Noncomplicity} ; Five: Critical Kinship {Universal Aspirations and Intersectional Judgments}; Six: The Vertigo of Critique {Rethinking Heteronormativity} ; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-389) and index
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