Object lessons / Robyn Wiegman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wiegman, Robyn.

Series:

Next wave.

Next wave : new directions in women's studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical theory.

Feminist theory.

Queer theory.

Group identity.

Race.

White people--Race identity.

White people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 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

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).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-389) and index.

Description based on print version record

ISBN:

9786613431202

9781283431200

1283431203

9780822394945

0822394944

OCLC:

774400101