Object lessons /

A passionate advocate of identity studies and a keen reader of U.S. institutional politics, Robyn Wiegman turns her attention in Object Lessons to the critical practices and political ambitions of identity-based fields. In a series of case studies drawn from women s studies, queer studies, ethnic st...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wiegman, Robyn
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2012.
Series:Next wave (Duke University Press)
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv11312fb
Table of Contents:
  • Doing justice with objects (or, the "progress" of gender)
  • Telling time (when feminism and queer theory diverge)
  • The political conscious (Whiteness studies and the paradox of particularity)
  • Refusing identification (Americanist pursuits of global non-complicity)
  • Critical kinship (universal aspirations and intersectional judgments)
  • The vertigo of critique (rethinking heteronormativity).