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The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time

Victoria Rosner and Geraldine Pratt

Abstract

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 ... More

Keywords: feminism, transnational relations, economic development, intercultural exchange, globalization, justice

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2012 Print ISBN-13: 9780231154499
Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: November 2015 DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231154499.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Victoria Rosner, editor
Columbia University

Geraldine Pratt, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Geraldine Pratt and Victoria Rosner

I The Anatomy of Intimacy

1 Intimacy

Ara Wilson

2 In the Interests of Taste and Place

Elspeth Probyn

3 Jamaica Kincaid’s Practical Politics of the Intimate in My Garden (Book):

Agnese Fidecaro

4 Widening Circles

Rachel Adams

II Memory, History, Community

5 Facing

Mieke Bal

6 Objects of Return

Marianne Hirsch

7 Narratives and Rights

Sidonie Smith

8 Letter From Argentina

Nancy K. Miller

III Legislating Intimacy

9 “Security Moms” in Twenty-First-Century U.S.A.

Inderpal Grewal

10 “Like a Family, But Not Quite”

Tsung-yi Michelle Huang and Chi-She Li

11 What We Women Talk About When We Talk About Interracial Love

Min Jin Lee

12 The Pedagogy of the Spiral

Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius

IV Global Feminism and the Subjects of Knowledge

13 Witnessing, Femicide, and a Politics of the Familiar

Melissa W. Wright

14 Solidarity, Self-Critique, and Survival

Sangtin Writers Reena, Richa Nagar, Richa Singh, Surbala

15 Tehran Kids

Mikhal Dekel

End Matter

Contributors

Index