Feminist (Re)visions of the Subject Landscapes, Ethnoscapes, and Theoryscapes

by Currie, Gail; Rothenberg, Celia E.; Armstrong, Mary; Arnstein, Mimi; Blaustein, Jessica Barkley; Bury, Rhiannon; Chen, Melinda Yuen-ching; Cheng, Shu-Ju Ada; Gibb, Camilla; McGibbon, Jacqueline; Millward, Liz; Moore, Henrietta; Subramaniam, Banu; Vallely,

• ISBN13: 9780739102343
• ISBN10: 0739102346
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-06
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Feminist (Re)visions utilizes the study of space and place--which extends through sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and area studies, historical perspectives, and philosophy--as a paradigm for cross-disciplinary inquiry. Noting that both the study of space/place and feminism are transected by the lines of spacial, conceptual, and ontological disintegration in contemporary academia, Gail Currie and Celia Rothenberg have culled a collection of writings drawn together from feminist scholars across several disciplines to address three questions: how are subjects constituted in relation to the spaces and places they occupy; how are those spaces and places in turn negotiated and transformed; and how are feminists actively constructing new visions of the female subject in the context of the postmodern academic terrain? This work sets the stage for the development of a productive feminist praxis in an academic world some fear has been relativized and depoliticized by the postmodern turn.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(12)
Gail Currie
Part I Landscapes: Negotiating Space
Critical Dwellings: Foregrounding Space in the Feminist Picture	13	(26)
Jessica Barkley Blaustein
``Your Life Vest Is under Your Seat'': The Politics of Airline Seating	39	(16)
Liz Millward
From a Room to a Cyberspace of One's Own: Technology and the Women-Only Heterotopia	55	(32)
Rhiannon Bury
Family Business: The Household, Gender, and Generational Relations in an International Ski Resort in the Tirolean Alps	87	(22)
Jacqueline McGibbon
Part II Ethnoscapes: Productions of Place
Manufactured Tradition and the Embodiment of Place: Ethiopian Muslims in a Deterritorialized World	109	(22)
Camilla Gibb
Ambiguous Symbols: Women and the Ascetic Ideal in Jainism	131	(14)
Anne Vallely
Embodied Spirits: Palestinains and the Experience of Possession	145	(14)
Celia Rothenberg
Consciousness Razing: Self-Defining Feminism and the Problem of Postmodern Politics	159	(22)
Mimi Arnstein
Part III Theoryscapes: Landscapes of Theory Production
Weaving Intimacy and Reflexivity: The Locational Politics of Power, Knowledge, and Identities	181	(20)
Shu-Ju Ada Cheng
Cross-Pollinations: Tropes and Consequences in Scientific Writing	201	(16)
Banu Subramaniam
Michael Witmore
Fear of a Real Planet: Sublunary Fantasies of Gender, Sex, and Nation	217	(22)
Mary Armstrong
Crossing Performativities: ``Reclaiming'' as Both Utterance and Gender Construction	239	(22)
Melinda Yuen-ching Chen
Afterword: A `Mastercalss' in Subjectivity	261	(6)
Henrietta Moore
Index	267	(6)
About the Contributors	273