Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (565 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822336456 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 424 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A Truly Revolutionary Book" according to LastAngelofHistory.org. Not since the early 1980s has there been a book that literally takes one's breath away. Prof. Alexander's new volume is profoundly spiritual at the same time it's grounded in a unique materialist feminism. Its signifiance also lies in the book's manifestations of a real hope. Unable to Search within text I am a graduate student and bought the Kindle version of this book. It is unfortunately a waste of time. I am viewing this books with the Widdows 8 Kindle app and am unable to search within the text of the book. Also, the ''Table of Contents" button is not activated. Did I m. Excellent book A. Harper I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in intersectionality and transnational feminisms. Alexander is brilliant. I particularly loved her chapter about her experience at the New School and how 'diversity' initiatives elide the real problem of social justice: "norm
“Pedagogies of Crossing is a tour de force. Beautifully written and deeply moving, this book shows us how we need an ethic of translation if we are to be able to engage in classroom teaching so that both students and teachers can grapple with the politics of our complex, globalized world. Jacqui Alexander addresses the conditions that make multiculturalism possible and powerfully shows us that those conditions are ultimately ethical and spiritual. M. Pedagogies of Crossing is a must read for anyone in women’s studies, anthropology, political science, English, comparative literature, or sociology.”—Drucilla Cornell, author of Defending Ideals: War, Democracy, and Political Struggles
In this multifaceted, visionary book, Alexander maps the terrain of alternative histories and offers new forms of knowledge with which to mold alternative futures.. In this landmark interdisciplinary volume, Alexander points to a number of critical imperatives made all the more urgent by contemporary manifestations of neoimperialism and neocolonialism. Among these are the need for North American feminism and queer studies to take up transnational frameworks that foreground questions of colonialism, political economy, and racial formation; for a thorough re-conceptualization of modernity to account for the heteronormative regulatory practices of modern state formations; and for feminists to wrestle with the spiritual dimensions of experience and the meaning of sacred subjectivity.In these meditations, Alexander deftly unites large, often contradictory, historical processes across time and space. M. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race theories, with some of her more recent work. She focuses on the criminalization of queer communities in both the United States and the Caribbean in ways that prompt us to rethink