Robyn Wiegman

Object Lessons

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 womens studies, queer studies, ethnic studies, and American studies, she examines the unspoken belief that better theory will produce progressive social change in order to consider the political desire that fuels current scholarly debate. Her metacritical analysis is neither a defense nor a dismissal of such political commitment but a sustained inquiry into the hope it generates, the thinking it inspires, and the conformity it inadvertently demands.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780822351467
• ISBN-10: 0822351463
• Artikelnr.: 34164044

Autorenporträt

Robyn Wiegman

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: How to Read This Book 1
1. Doing Justice with Objects: Or, the "Progress" of Gender 36
2. Telling Time: When Feminism and Queer Theory Diverge 91
3. The Political Conscious: Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of
Particularity 137
4. Refusing Identification: Americanist Pursuits of Global Noncomplicity
197
5. Critical Kinship: Universal Aspirations and Intersectional Judgments 239
6. The Vertigo of Critique: Rethinking Heteronormativity 301
Bibliography 345
Index 391