Perverse politics? : feminism, anti-imperialism, multiplicity

The papers collected here offer anti-imperialist feminist alternatives to second wave feminism's often reductive understandings of freedom; emancipation; oppression; empowerment and democracy.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Orloff, Ann Shola, Ray, Raka, Savci, Evren
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2016.
SeriesPolitical power and social theory ; v. 30.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781786350732
ISSN0198-8719
0198-8719 ;
DOI10.1108/S0198-8719201630
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 186 p.).

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Table of Contents:
  • Perverse politics? feminism, anti-imperialism, multiplicity / Ann Shola Orloff, Raka Ray, Evren Savci
  • Perverse humanitarianism and the business of rescue: what's wrong with NGOs and what's right about the "Johns"? / Kimberly Kay Hoang
  • Redemptive capitalism and sexual investability / Elizabeth Bernstein
  • Troubling the subject of violence: the pacifist presumption, martial maternalism, and armed women in contemporary gun culture / Jennifer Carlson
  • Feminism/s in power: rethinking gender equality after the second wave / Ann Shola Orloff, Talia Schiff
  • Contextualizing the closet: naz, law, and sexuality in postcolonial India / Savina Balasubramanian
  • Subjects of rights and subjects of cruelty: the production of an Islamic backlash against homosexuality in Turkey / Evren Savci.