The Global and the Intimate

The Global and the Intimate

Feminism in Our Time

In: Gender and Culture Series

Edited by: Geraldine Pratt and Victoria Rosner

Columbia University Press | 2012

https://doi.org/10.7312/prat15448

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About this book

By placing the global and the intimate in near relation, sixteen essays by prominent feminist scholars and authors forge a distinctively feminist approach to questions of transnational relations, economic development, and intercultural exchange. This pairing enables personal modes of writing and engagement with globalization debates and forges a definition of justice keyed to the specificity of time, place, and feeling. Writing from multiple disciplinary and geographical perspectives, the contributors participate in a long-standing feminist tradition of upending spatial hierarchies and making theory out of the practices of everyday life.

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Geraldine Pratt is professor of geography at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Working Feminism and Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love and the coauthor of Gender, Work, and Space.

Victoria Rosner is associate dean at Columbia University, where she teaches courses on modernist literature, gender, and space. She is the author of Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life.

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Sallie Marston, University of Arizona:
Balancing feminist theory's commitment to the everyday with a keen understanding of the structures that shape lives, The Global and the Intimate demonstrates how the site-specific material practices undertaken by embodied agents both connect with and affect other people and places across the globe. It is a richly textured book that merits a wide audience while inviting a reconsideration of hierarchies of space and scale and their relevance to feminist investigations.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
CONTENTS Free access PDF PDF	v
Acknowledgments Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	ix
Introduction Geraldine Pratt and Victoria Rosner Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
I. THE ANATOMY OF INTIMACY.
1. Intimacy Ara Wilson Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	31
2. In the Interests of Taste and Place Elspeth Probyn Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	57
Jamaica Kincaid’s Practical Politics of the Intimate in My Garden (book) Agnese Fidecaro Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	85
4. Widening Circles Rachel Adams Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	105
II. MEMORY, HISTORY, COMMUNITY
5. Facing Mieke Bal Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	119
6. Objects of Return Marianne Hirsch Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	145
7. Narratives and Rights Sidonie Smith Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	168
8. Letter from Argentina Nancy K. Miller Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	186
III. LEGISLATING INTIMACY
9. “Security Moms” in Twenty-First-Century U.S.A Inderpal Grewal Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	195
10. “Like a Family, But Not Quite” Tsung-yi Michelle Huang and Chi-she Li Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	211
11. What We Women Talk About When We Talk About Interracial Love Min Jin Lee Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	232
12. The Pedagogy of the Spiral Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	243
IV. GLOBAL FEMINISM AND THE SUBJECTS OF KNOWLEDGE
13. Witnessing, Femicide, and a Politics of the Familiar Melissa W. Wright Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	267
14. Solidarity, Self-Critique, and Survival Sangtin Writers Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	289
15. Tehran Kids Mikhal Dekel Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	305
List of Contributors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	311
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	317
Backmatter Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	327

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