Talking Visions : Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age

by Ella Shohat (Ed.)

• ISBN13: 9780262194266
• ISBN10: 0262194260
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-25
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

This multivoiced collection of essays and images presents the perspectives of activists, scholars, artists, and curators from a broad range of constituencies. Challenging traditional disciplinary and cultural boundaries, the book moves beyond any unified feminist historical narrative to present a "relational" feminism of diverse communities, affiliations, and practices. The texts/images partake of many genres: reflective essay, testimonial dialogue, performance piece, digital collage, prose poem, and photomontage. Forging connections between usually compartmentalized areas of knowledge and of activism, the volume helps us to envision alternative epistemologies and imaginative alliances. Copublished with the New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Editor's Preface
Introduction	p. 1
naked without shame: a counter-hegemonic body politic	p. 65
Passing for White, Passing for Black	p. 75
We Wear the Mask	p. 113
The Hair Trade	p. 119
Looking Good: A Performer's Perspective	p. 137
Alphabets of Flesh	p. 143
Reflections on a Yellow Eye: Asian I (\Eye/)Cons and Cosmetic Surgery	p. 161
No Body Is an Island: Reproduction and Modernization in Puerto Rico	p. 193
Cutting through the Obfuscation: Female Genital Surgeries in Neoimperial Culture	p. 203
Reclaiming a Human Rights Culture: Feminism of Difference and Alliance	p. 225
(Re)visiones: A Dialogue Through the Eyes of AIDS, Activism, and Empowerment	p. 247
WACtales: A Downtown Adventure	p. 261
When Florida Isn't An Option: Testimonio on Growing Older in El Barrio	p. 273
Imperial Desire/Sexual Utopias: White Gay Capital and Transnational Tourism	p. 281
Don't want my orgasm simulated	p. 307
"Two Inches or a Yard": Silencing Black Women's Sexual Expression	p. 315
Those Earrings, That Accent, That Hair: A Dialogue with Maria Hinojosa on Latinos/as and the Media	p. 325
Transatlantic Inscriptions: Desire, Diaspora, and Cultural Citizenship	p. 357
The Invisible American Half: Arab American Hybridity and Feminist Discourses in the 1990s	p. 369
Cross-Border Talk: Transnational Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Sexuality	p. 391
Savage Hegemony: From "Endangered Species" to Feminist Indiginism	p. 413
Talking about the State and Imaging Alliances	p. 441
"Beyond the Pale": Rearticulating U.S. Jewish Whiteness	p. 451
Crafting Feminist Genealogies: On and Politics of Home, Nation, and Community	p. 485
On the New Global Feminism and the Family Dilemmas of Transnational Feminist Practice	p. 501
Selected Bibliography	p. 533
Contributors	p. 547
Name Index	p. 565
Subject Index	p. 569
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