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The Global and the Intimate

Feminism in Our Time

Victoria Rosner editor Geraldine Pratt editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Published:11th May '12

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The Global and the Intimate features an exciting spectrum of essays, many by high-profile scholars. Its superb introduction brings together postcolonial work on the local/global, queer work on public feelings, and decades of feminist scholarship pitched against gendered 'hierarchies of space and scale.' Individual essays extend this tradition through probing considerations of mothers and migration, diaries and diaspora, and the sensual and economic ramifications of eating oysters. With this smart, timely volume, Geraldine Pratt and Victoria Rosner make a major contribution to feminist and transnational studies. -- Susan D. Fraiman, University of Virginia

By placing the global and the intimate in near relation, sixteen essays by prominent feminist scholars and authors forge a distinctively feminist approach to questions of transnational relations, economic development, and intercultural exchange. This pairing enables personal modes of writing and engagement with globalization debates and forges a definition of justice keyed to the specificity of time, place, and feeling. Writing from multiple disciplinary and geographical perspectives, the contributors participate in a long-standing feminist tradition of upending spatial hierarchies and making theory out of the practices of everyday life.

Balancing feminist theory's commitment to the everyday with a keen understanding of the structures that shape lives, The Global and the Intimate demonstrates how the site-specific material practices undertaken by embodied agents both connect with and affect other people and places across the globe. It is a richly textured book that merits a wide audience while inviting a reconsideration of hierarchies of space and scale and their relevance to feminist investigations. -- Sallie Marston, University of Arizona

ISBN: 9780231154499

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344 pages