Gender And The Southern Body Politic

Author : Nancy Bercaw
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1578062578

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Gender and the Southern Body Politic by Nancy Bercaw Pdf

A re-examination of history through the unique lens of gender Download Plain Text version In recent years an exciting new branch of scholarship has contributed to revising our understanding of politics and history. Expanding our definition of southern politics, a new generation of historians is challenging us to reconsider the most hallowed subjects in southern history -- the origins of slavery, Bacon's Rebellion, the Nullification crisis, the origins of the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Lost Cause, Populism, and Jim Crow. Taking gender as a lens of analysis, these subjects are envisioned in a new light. As Gender and the Southern Body Politic examines literature and art, labor and law, manhood and womanhood, the historians contributing to this volume argue that politics is not limited to the machinations of parties, candidates, and voters. Instead, they suggest that private matters -- family, home, and sexuality -- are integral to the construction of public power. Focusing on gender and ranging from the colonial period to the present, these essays explore the politics of memory, masculinity, domestic violence, political obligation, the male body, and affirmative action. In revising southern political history, each author challenges our conceptualization of history itself. Jacquelyn Hall calls for a new form of writing that questions the tired boundaries of public and private and that "emphasizes not our expertise but our common condition, writing that troubles the boundaries between poetics and politics, memory and history, witnessing and writing, acting and research." In questioning politics, these and other new-thinking historians have opened our eyes to fresh ways of seeing and practicing the art of history. These papers were presented in 1997 at the at the University of Mississippi. Nancy Bercaw is an assistant professor of history at the University of Mississippi.

Author : Nancy Bercaw
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1934110388

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Gender and the Southern Body Politic by Nancy Bercaw Pdf

A re-examination of history through the unique lens of gender Download Plain Text version In recent years an exciting new branch of scholarship has contributed to revising our understanding of politics and history. Expanding our definition of southern politics, a new generation of historians is challenging us to reconsider the most hallowed subjects in southern history -- the origins of slavery, Bacon's Rebellion, the Nullification crisis, the origins of the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Lost Cause, Populism, and Jim Crow. Taking gender as a lens of analysis, these subjects are envisioned in a new light. As Gender and the Southern Body Politic examines literature and art, labor and law, manhood and womanhood, the historians contributing to this volume argue that politics is not limited to the machinations of parties, candidates, and voters. Instead, they suggest that private matters -- family, home, and sexuality -- are integral to the construction of public power. Focusing on gender and ranging from the colonial period to the present, these essays explore the politics of memory, masculinity, domestic violence, political obligation, the male body, and affirmative action. In revising southern political history, each author challenges our conceptualization of history itself. Jacquelyn Hall calls for a new form of writing that questions the tired boundaries of public and private and that "emphasizes not our expertise but our common condition, writing that troubles the boundaries between poetics and politics, memory and history, witnessing and writing, acting and research." In questioning politics, these and other new-thinking historians have opened our eyes to fresh ways of seeing and practicing the art of history. These papers were presented in 1997 at the at the University of Mississippi. Nancy Bercaw is an assistant professor of history at the University of Mississippi.

Author : Nancy Bercaw
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Sex role
ISBN : 1617034002

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Author : Felipe Smith
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820319333

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American Body Politics by Felipe Smith Pdf

Felipe Smith tracks the emergence of particular gender images--such as white witch, black madonna, mammy, and white lady--and their impact on early African American literature. Smith gives us a remarkable synthesis of historical readings combined with a highly original contribution to the comprehension of racial thought and literary writing.

Author : Aihwa Ong,Michael G Peletz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520088603

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Bewitching Women, Pious Men by Aihwa Ong,Michael G Peletz Pdf

"This collection presents new ethnographic research, framed in terms of new theoretical developments, and contains fine scholarship and lively writing."--Janet Hoskins, University of Southern California "This is a wonderful collection of essays. At one level they tell us about the transformation and often painful fragmentation of gendered selves in post-colonial states and a speeded-up transnational world. At another level they display the continuing power of ethnography to surprise and move us."--Sherry Ortner, University of California, Berkeley

Author : Bernd Herzogenrath
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781584659334

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An American Body-politic by Bernd Herzogenrath Pdf

A reflection on the metaphor of the body politic throughout American history

Author : Wendy Harcourt
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848136182

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Body Politics in Development by Wendy Harcourt Pdf

Body Politics in Development sets out to define body politics as a key political and mobilizing force for human rights in the last two decades. This passionate and engaging book reveals how once-tabooed issues, such as rape, gender-based violence, and sexual and reproductive rights, have emerged into the public arena as critical grounds of contention and struggle. Engaging in the latest feminist thinking and action, the book describes the struggles around body politics for people living in economic and socially vulnerable communities and covers a broad range of gender and development issues, including fundamentalism, sexualities and new technologies, from diverse viewpoints. The book's originality comes through the author's rich experience and engagement in feminist activism and global body politics and was winner of the 2010 FWSA Book Prize.

Author : Barbara Sutton,Nayla Luz Vacarezza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000404463

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Abortion and Democracy by Barbara Sutton,Nayla Luz Vacarezza Pdf

Abortion and Democracy offers critical analyses of abortion politics in Latin America’s Southern Cone, with lessons and insights of wider significance. Drawing on the region’s recent history of military dictatorship and democratic transition, this edited volume explores how abortion rights demands fit with current democratic agendas. With a focus on Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, the book’s contributors delve into the complex reality of abortion through the examination of the discourses, strategies, successes, and challenges of abortion rights movements. Assembling a multiplicity of voices and experiences, the contributions illuminate key dimensions of abortion rights struggles: health aspects, litigation efforts, legislative debates, party politics, digital strategies, grassroots mobilization, coalition-building, affective and artistic components, and movement-countermovement dynamics. The book takes an approach that is sensitive to social inequalities and to the transnational aspects of abortion rights struggles in each country. It bridges different scales of analysis, from abortion experiences at the micro level of the clinic or the home to the macro sociopolitical and cultural forces that shape individual lives. This is an important intervention suitable for students and scholars of abortion politics, democracy in Latin America, gender and sexuality, and women’s rights.

Author : Regina Schulte
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 184545121X

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The Body of the Queen by Regina Schulte Pdf

"Inspired by existential thought, but using ethnographic methods, Michael Jackson explores a variety of contemporary topics, including 9/11, episodes from the war in Sierra Leone and its aftermath, the marginalization of indigenous Australians, the application of new technologies, mundane forms of ritualization, the magical use of language, the sociality of violence, the prose of suffering, and the discourse of human rights. Throughout this compelling work, Jackson demonstrates that existentialism, far from being a philosophy of individual being, enables us to explore issues of social existence and coexistence in new ways, and to theorise events as the sites of a dynamic interplay between the finite possibilities of the situations in which human beings find themselves and the capacities they possess for creating viable forms of social life."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Isabel Käser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1009011111

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The Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement by Isabel Käser Pdf

Amidst ongoing wars and insecurities, female fighters, politicians and activists of the Kurdish Freedom Movement are building a new political system that centres gender equality. Since the Rojava Revolution, the international focus has been especially on female fighters, a gaze that has often been essentialising and objectifying, brushing over a much more complex history of violence and resistance. Going beyond Orientalist tropes of the female freedom fighter, and the movement's own narrative of the 'free woman', Isabel Käser looks at personal trajectories and everyday processes of becoming a militant in this movement. Based on in-depth ethnographic research in Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan, with women politicians, martyr mothers and female fighters, she looks at how norms around gender and sexuality have been rewritten and how new meanings and practices have been assigned to women in the quest for Kurdish self-determination. Her book complicates prevailing notions of gender and war and creates a more nuanced understanding of the everyday embodied epistemologies of violence, conflict and resistance.

Author : Catherine A. Holland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136697050

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The Body Politic by Catherine A. Holland Pdf

This work advances an original thesis that challenges the dominant schools of thought concerning the liberal tradition in the US.

Author : Sergio Lussana,Lydia Plath
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443815338

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Black and White Masculinity in the American South, 1800-2000 by Sergio Lussana,Lydia Plath Pdf

This book consists of a range of essays written by historians and literary critics which examine the historical construction of Southern masculinities, rich and poor, white and black, in a variety of contexts, from slavery in the antebellum period, through the struggle for Civil Rights, right up to the recent South. Building on the rich historiography of gender and culture in the South undertaken in recent years, this volume aims to highlight the important role Southern conceptions of masculinity have played in the lives of Southern men, and to reflect on how masculinity has intersected with class, race and power to structure the social relationships between blacks and whites throughout the history of the South. The volume highlights the multifaceted nature of Southern masculinities, demonstrating the changing ways black and white masculinities have been both imagined and practised over the years, while also emphasizing that conceptions of black and white masculinity in the American South rarely seem to be divorced from wider questions of class, race and power.

Author : J. Outshoorn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137351661

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European Women's Movements and Body Politics by J. Outshoorn Pdf

This book examines how feminist movements have contested the dominant discourses and state politics that have impeded women's autonomy over their bodies since the late 1960s. It deals with two important facets of this struggle, prostitution and the right to abortion, as they relate to the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden.

Author : Nancy A. Hewitt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470998588

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A Companion to American Women's History by Nancy A. Hewitt Pdf

This collection of twenty-four original essays by leading scholars in American women's history highlights the most recent important scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field. Covers the breadth of American Women's history, including the colonial family, marriage, health, sexuality, education, immigration, work, consumer culture, and feminism. Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. Includes expanded bibliography of titles to guide further research.

Author : Ahonaa Roy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000330199

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Gender, Sexuality, Decolonization by Ahonaa Roy Pdf

This book presents a new approach to the understanding of non-normative sexuality and gender transgressive modes in South Asia and South Asian diaspora. It reconceives sexual representation from the point of view of the theoretical, political and empirical trajectories of decolonization, provincialization and neoliberalism to look at the role of historical contingency, postcolonial sexual politics and gender and sexual diversity. The volume brings together anthropological, historical, material and political analyses around South Asian sexual politics by exploring a range of themes, including culture, class, ethnicity, identity, intersectionality, migration, borders, diaspora, modernity and cosmopolitanism across various local, regional and global contexts. By using southern/non-Western and subaltern theorizations of gender and sexuality, the book discusses South Asian sexualities through issues such as the sexual politics of indeterminacy; sexual subculture, iconography and political decision-making; religious identity; queer South Asian diaspora; decolonizing the postcolonial body; sexual politics, gender and feminist debates; discrimination, and socio-political violence; the political economy of empowerment; and critical appropriation of the 377 Indian Penal Code. It also builds forms of dialogues to bridge the gap between academic and development practitioners. With diverse case studies and a fresh theoretical framework, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of South Asian studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, sociology and social anthropology, political studies, diaspora studies, postcolonial and global south studies.