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The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time (Gender and Culture Series)

The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time (Gender and Culture Series)

by Geraldine Pratt (Author), VictoriaRosner (Author)

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    Paperback 2012

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 384
 Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 01 May 2012
ISBN 10: 0231154496
ISBN 13: 9780231154499
Book Overview: 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

Media Reviews
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
Author Bio
Geraldine Pratt is professor of geography at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Working Feminism and Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love and the coauthor of Gender, Work, and Space. Victoria Rosner is associate dean at Columbia University, where she teaches courses on modernist literature, gender, and space. She is the author of Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life.