Thinking Differently

Thinking Differently

Author: Gabrielle Griffin

Publisher: Zed Books

Published: 2002-10

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9781842770030

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This book is the first to ask whether there is a specifically European dimension to certain major issues in Women's Studies. It strives to create a synergetic debate among different disciplines and cultural traditions in Europe, and, in doing so, fills some gaps in our knowledge about women and enriches debates hitherto dominated by Anglo-American influences. Among the new areas of enquiry opened up in this book by the specificities of European Women's Studies are: * The fact that Europe has repeatedly experienced warfare on its own territory which has impacted significantly on women. Hence the focus in this volume on women and militarism, and on ethnic cleansing as an attack on the family. * The abidingly problematic relationship between feminism and anti-semitism, and issues of migration and 'whiteness' in a context where racism reflects the colonial histories of particular European countries. * The importance of passion and the emotions, as well as psychoanalytical theory, for politics particularly in Southern and Eastern European countries. * Current problems facing Europe, including the decline of the welfare state, the phenomenon of the 'single' woman, and the relationship between women's rights and human rights. * The diverse faces of feminist movements in particular European countries. Reading feminism from a European perspective will enable readers to reflect upon the ways in which changes in political, social and cultural positions and practices over the past century in Europe have impacted on feminist thinking and theorizing. The volume raises important issues about the transfer of feminist concepts across cultures and languages. And to English-speaking audiences the volume also offers fresh viewpoints on some of the key debates in Women's Studies.


The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness

The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness

Author: Birgit Brander Rasmussen

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2001-09-07

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0822327406

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A collection of new essays in race theory, drawn from the 4/97 Berkeley conference.


Beyond the Pale

Beyond the Pale

Author: Vron Ware

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2015-06-09

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1784780146

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How have ideas about white women figured in the history of racism? Vron Ware argues that they have been central, and that feminism has, in many ways, developed as a political movement within racist societies. Dissecting the different meanings of femininity and womanhood, Beyond the Pale examines the political connections between black and white women, both within contemporary racism and feminism, as well as in historical examples like the anti-slavery movement and the British campaign against lynching in the United States. Beyond the Pale is a major contribution to anti-racist work, confronting the historical meanings of whiteness as a way of overcoming the moralism that so often infuses anti-racist movements.


The Global Bourgeoisie

The Global Bourgeoisie

Author: Christof Dejung

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2019-11-26

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 0691195838

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This essay collection presents a global history of the middle class and its rise around the world during the age of empire. It compares middle-class formation in various regions, highlighting differences and similarities, and assesses the extent to which bourgeois growth was tied to the increasing exchange of ideas and goods and was a result of international connections and entanglements. Grouped by theme, the book shows how bourgeois values can shape the liberal world order.


Inszenierungen Der Politik

Inszenierungen Der Politik

Author: Gertrud Koch

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9783846743331

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Inszenierungen der Politik - Der Körper als Medium untersucht die Beziehungen zwischen Kör-per, Ästhetik und Politik, die so-wohl im eindeutigen Bereich des Politischen, als auch im schein-bar Unpolitischen zu finden sind. In der mittelalterlichen Symbolik, in der Inszenierung von Ludwig XIV. oder in Zeiten von Wahl-kampagnen - die ästhetischen Darstellungen des Körpers stan-den immer im Mittelpunkt der politischen Repräsentation. Kör-perinszenierungen tragen zu utopischen Entwürfen, gesell-schaftlicher Normierung und Mythoskonstruktionen bei. Sie bieten Projektionsflächen für Identitätswünsche, Sehnsüchte und Ängste, die von politischen Visualisierungsstrategien mobili-siert werden können. Der Band knüpft an die breite Diskussion über die Ästhetisierung von Politik und über die Rolle des Körpers in der politischen Reprä-sentation an und eröffnet einen interdisziplinären Dialog über die Bedeutung des Körpers für politi-sche Praktiken und Diskurse.


Science and Civil Society

Science and Civil Society

Author: Lynn K. Nyhart

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13:

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This volume explores the varieties of relationships formed between science and civil society, at both the conceptual and institutional levels, since the late seventeenth century. It brings together general historians and historians of science with different national perspectives to confront the various ways sin which science and civil society have shaped one another in different times and places. How, when, and why did science become intertwined in the network of voluntary associations, professional groups and other institutions we understand as comprising "civil society"? How has science affected the ideology of civil society and thus the legitimacy of political authority in historical contexts as different as late eighteenth-century America, mid nineteenth-century Germany, and early twentieth-century China? How have scientists made use of the ideological links between science and civil political discourse to further their own professional ends? In contrast to much recent writing on civil society, this volume does not aim at making normative pronouncements about the role of civil society in promoting democratic polities, nor does it attempt to weigh the role of science in democracy. Instead, the essays examine how the fruitful interplay of beliefs concerning science and civil society has worked to legitimize the institutional forms of civil society and naturalize its ideologies, while at the same time giving to science its overwhelmingly powerful role in public life.