The Audacity of Races and Genders A Personal and Global Story of the Obama Election

by Eisenstein, Zillah

• ISBN13: 9781848134195
• ISBN10: 1848134193
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-15
• Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Summary

In this exciting and insightful new work, Zillah Eisenstein weighs up the new anti-imperial possibilities created by the 2008 election of Barack Obama. Eisenstein likens the end of the Bush/Cheney presidency to the fall of Stalin, or Pinochet, and asks whether this is a key historical moment that will alter race and gender in newly unknown ways. Tracing the social and political presence of Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin and Barack Obama,The Audacity of Race and Genderpresents 25 conceptual "frames" of fast-paced critical analysis. Illuminated by her distinctive style and personal narrative, Eisenstein challenges her readers to always be looking for the "newly new" political configurations in order to create a politics of and for the globe.

Author Biography

Zillah Eisenstein teaches political theory and anti-racist feminisms in the Politics Department of Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Introducting My Mindscape	p. 1
Fluid Frames	p. 3
Bodies and Me	p. 9
A New Circular Globe	p. 17
Ch/India and New-Old Economies	p. 19
Gender Bending with the Globe	p. 27
Global Capitalist Crises	p. 35
Chinua Achebe and Listening to Africa	p. 45
The Newest China and Her Olympics	p. 51
New-Old Discourses on the Globe	p. 61
God Bless America and Her Troops	p. 63
New Cold Wars and Global Warming	p. 71
Mythic Enemies and Newest Races	p. 78
US Presidential Election Talk	p. 89
Hillary Chose Not To Be a Feminist	p. 91
Yesterday's Hillary	p. 98
A Post-New Hampshire Diary of Sorts	p. 107
The Audaciousness of Race	p. 115
Hillary Is White	p. 121
Michelle Is Obviously Black	p. 127
Sarah's Right-wing Vagina	p. 134
US Feminisms	p. 140
Shifting the Political Landscapes	p. 145
Gender Mainstreaming in the Land of Picasso	p. 147
Chadors, Veils, and Pantsuits	p. 157
New Turkish and Iranian Feminisms	p. 163
Heteronormative Silences and Gay Marriage	p. 170
Being White in Cape Town	p. 178
On the Ground in Florida	p. 186
What Is Next?	p. 195
Unfinished Beginnings and Endings	p. 197
Index	p. 206
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