| Description |
xix, 575 unnumbered pages : illustrations, plates ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Documentary sources in contemporary art ; v. 5 |
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Documentary sources in contemporary art ; v. 5
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| Contents |
Naked without shame : a counter-hegemonic body politic / Bell Hooks -- Passing for white, passing for black / Adrian Piper -- We wear the mask / Coco Fusco -- The hair trade / Lisa Jones -- Looking good : a performer's perspective / Carmelita Tropicana -- Alphabets of flesh / Meena Alexander -- Reflections on a yellow eye : Asian I (eye/)cons and cosmetic surgery / Kathleen Zane -- No body is an island : reproduction and modernization in Puerto Rico / Maria Milagros López -- Cutting through the obfuscation : female genital surgeries in neoimperial culture / Isabelle R. Gunning -- Reclaiming a human rights culture : feminism of difference and alliance / Mallika Dutt -- (Re)visiónes : a dialogue through the eyes of AIDS, activism and empowerment / Marina Alvarez and Ginetta Candelario -- WACtales : a downtown adventure / Janet Henry -- When Florida isn't an option : testimonio on growing older in El barrio / Petra Allende as told to Rocio Aranda-Alvarado -- Imperial desire/sexual utopias : white gay capital and transnational tourism / M. Jacqui Alexander -- Don't want my orgasm simulated / Shu Lea Cheang -- "Two inches or a yard" : silencing black women's sexual expression / Tricia Rose -- Those earrings, that accent, that hair : a dialogue with Maria Hinojosa on Latinos/as and the media / Catherine Benamou -- Transatlantic inscriptions : desire, diaspora, and cultural citizenship / May Joseph -- The invisible American half : Arab American hybridity and feminist discourses in the 1990s / Mervat F. Hatem -- Cross-border talk : transnational perspectives on labor, race and sexuality / Teresa Carrillo -- Savage hegemony : from "endangered species" to feminist indiginism / M.A. Jaimes Guerrero -- Talking about the state and imagining alliances / Wahneema Lubiano -- "Beyond the pale" : rearticulating U.S. Jewish whiteness / Caren Kaplan -- Crafting feminist genealogies : on the geography and politics of home, nation and community / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- On the new global feminism and the family of nations : dilemmas of transnational feminist practice / Inderpal Grewal |
| Summary |
Challenging traditional disciplinary and cultural boundaries, this text moves beyond any unified feminist historical narrative to present 'relational' feminism of diverse communities, affiliations, and practices |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Arts and society -- History -- 20th century.
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Feminism and the arts.
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Gender identity in art.
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Multiculturalism in art.
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| Author |
Shohat, Ella, 1959-
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New Museum of Contemporary Art
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| LC no. |
98017423 |
| ISBN |
0262194260 |
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0262692058 (paperback) |
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0262692619 (paperback- from back cover) |
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