Full Description
Feminist (Re)visions utilizes the study of space and place—which extends through sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and area studies, historical perspectives, and philosophy—as a paradigm for cross-disciplinary inquiry. Noting that both the study of space/place and feminism are transected by the lines of spacial, conceptual, and ontological disintegration in contemporary academia, Gail Currie and Celia Rothenberg have culled a collection of writings drawn together from feminist scholars across several disciplines to address three questions: how are subjects constituted in relation to the spaces and places they occupy; how are those spaces and places in turn negotiated and transformed; and how are feminists actively constructing new visions of the female subject in the context of the postmodern academic terrain? This work sets the stage for the development of a productive feminist praxis in an academic world some fear has been relativized and depoliticized by the postmodern turn.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Landscapes: Negotiating Space Chapter 3 Critical Dwellings: Foregrounding Space in the Feminist Picture Chapter 4 "Your Life Vest is Under Your Seat": The Politics of Airline Seating Chapter 5 From a Room to a Cyberspace of One's Own: Technology and the Women-Only Heterotopia Chapter 6 Family Business: The Household, Gender, and Generational Relations in an International Ski Resort in the Tirolean Alps Part 7 Ethnoscapes: Production of Place Chapter 8 Manufactured Tradition and the Embodiment of Place: Ethiopian Muslims in a Deterritorialized World Chapter 9 Ambiguous Symbols: Women and the Ascetic Ideal in Jainism Chapter 10 Embodied Spirits: Palestinians and the Experience of Possession Chapter 11 Consciousness Razing: Self-Defining Feminism and the Problem of Postmodern Politics Part 12 Theoryscapes: Landscapes of Theory Production Chapter 13 Weaving Intimacy and Reflexivity: The Locational Politics of Power, Knowledge, and Identities Chapter 14 Cross-Pollinations: Tropes and Consequences in Scientific Writing Chapter 15 Fear of a Real Planet: Sublunary Fantasies of Gender, Sex, and Nation Chapter 16 Crossing Performativities: "Reclaiming" as both Utterance and Gender Construction Chapter 17 Afterword
