Imani Perry

Vexy Thing

On Gender and Liberation

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Produktbeschreibung

Imani Perry recenters patriarchy to contemporary discussions of feminism through a social and literary analysis of cultural artifacts—ranging from nineteenth-century slavery court cases and historical vignettes to literature and contemporary art—from the Enlightenment to the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781478000600
• ISBN-10: 1478000600
• Artikelnr.: 49446211

Autorenporträt

Imani Perry

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. Seafaring, Sovereignty, and the Self: Of Patriarchy and the Conditions
of Modernity  14
2. Producing Personhood: The Rise of Capitalism and the Western Subject  42
Interlude 1. How Did We Get Here? Nobody's Supposed to Be Here  86
3. In the Ether: Neoliberalism and Entrepreneurial Woman  98
4. Simulacra Child: Hypermedia and the Mediated Subject  129
5. Sticks Broken at the River: The Security State and the Violence of
Manhood  151
Interlude 2. Returning to the Witches  171
6. Unmaking the Territory and Remapping the Landscape  177
7. The Utterance of My Name: Invitation and the Disorder of Desire  199
8. The Vicar of Liberation  226
Notes  255
Bibliography  273
Index  283