Robin Truth Goodman - The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory

THE BLOOMSBURY HANDBOOK OF 21ST-CENTURY FEMINIST THEORY

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THE BLOOMSBURY HANDBOOK OF 21ST-CENTURY FEMINIST THEORY

Edited by Robin Truth Goodman

CONTENTS

Robin Truth Goodman

Susan Hekman

Michelle M. Wright

Hortense J. Spillers

Fanny Sderbck

Maria Margaroni

Anca Parvulescu

Rita Mookerjee

Kathleen Long

Alison Phipps

Ada Hurtado

Kyoo Lee

Aimee Armande Wilson

Nicole Simek

Margaret R. Higonnet

Caitlin Newcomer

Luise von Flotow

Mihoko Suzuki

Laura Hughes

Ewa Ponowska Ziarek

Masood Raja

Shannon Davies Mancus

Alison Sperling

Marios Constantinou

Joy James

Susan Ferguson

Robin Truth Goodman

Emanuela Bianchi

Anne Cong-Huyen

Sarah Afzal

Effie Yiannopoulou

Avtar Brah

Mina Karavanta

Rashmi Varma

Bridget Crone and Henriette Gunkel

Immense thanks are due to the writers of this volume. All of them have invested time, energy, and intellectual insights toward making this volume cutting-edge, original, and smart.

Thanks are also due to feminists who came before us and laid out the concepts that we are still using. Some of the work for this volume was done in Kate Milletts East Village apartment immediately before her death. Kate Millet was an inspiration for feminism, and I mourn her loss.

Id also like to thank Jeffrey Di Leo. His invitation for me to contribute to his own Bloomsbury Handbook of Critical Theory sparked the idea for this project. David Avital and Clara Herberg at Bloomsbury have been fantastic to work with and supportive of the project throughout. Im happy to see their continued interest in feminism and critical theory.

Additionally, a number of people have been very helpful in suggesting writers, reviewing drafts, advising, and talking through ideas. I express gratitude to Elisabeth R. Anker, Emily Apter, Anne Coldiron, Barry J. Faulk, Mary A. Favret, Paul Fyfe, Timothy Parrish, and Rebekah Sheldon.

And finally, Id like to thank Kenneth J. Saltman, my intellectual soulmate.

Sarah Afzal currently teaches undergraduate composition and literature courses in the English department at Florida State University. She studies literature with an emphasis on Postcolonial Literature and Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She is particularly interested in exploring marginalized and socially and politically repressed voices and identities in postcolonial societies. She is also interested in personal narratives that explore the partition of the Indian subcontinent.

Emanuela Bianchi is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and affiliated with the Department of Classics and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at New York University. She is the author of The Feminine Symptom: Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos (2014) and is currently writing a book on nature, hegemony, and kinship in ancient Greece.

Avtar Brah is Professor Emerita at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is a pioneer in the field of Diaspora Studies. Her book Cartographies of Diaspora generated key debates in this field. Her publications include the books Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities; Hybridity and Its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture (coedited with Annie Coombes); Thinking Identities: Racism, Ethnicity Culture; and Global Futures: Migration, Environment, and Globalization (coedited with Mary Hickman and Mairtin Mac an Ghaill). She is a member of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK. In 2001 she was awarded the MBE for services to Race and Gender. She is a member of the Editorial Collective of the journal Feminist Review and the International Editorial Board of the journal Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.

Anne Cong-Huyen is the Associate Librarian of Digital Pedagogy at the University of Michigan Library. She was formerly the Digital Scholar at Whittier College, coordinator of the Digital Liberal Arts center, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include digital pedagogy, literature and media of migration and labor, and women of color feminisms. Her work has appeared in the Journal of e-Media Studies (2013), Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 (2016), Between Humanities and the Digital (2015), and the open-access publication Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities. She holds leadership positions in HASTAC, FemTechNet, and the Digital Humanities Caucus of the American Studies Association and is a founding member of the #transformDH collective. Anne can be reached on Twitter @anitaconchita. You may find out more about her work at anitaconchita.org.

Marios Constantinou received his PhD from the New School for Social Research. He is the editor of Badiou and the Political Condition, as well as of special issues on Space and Event (Environment & Planning D: Society and Space) and Imperial Affect (Parallax). He is currently translating Jodi Deans Publicitys Secret into Greek. His writings and essays appeared in Third Text, Parrhesia, The Years Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Angelaki, Parallax, Thesis Eleven, Postcolonial Studies, and elsewhere. They all attempt from different angles to retrieve the counter-imperialist truth of the political from different angles.

Bridget Crone is Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, the University of London. Her work as a curator and writer weaves together forms of speculation and enquiry across fields of practice to propose new forms of encounter between body, time, and the image. Recent exhibitions include Propositions for a Stage: 24 Frames of a Beautiful Heaven (2017) and Spectral Ecologies (2017). Her published works include The Sensible Stage: Staging and the Moving Image (2017, edited collection, second edition Intellect); Flicker-Time and Fabulation: From Flickering Images to Crazy Wipes (in Fictions and Futures, 2017); Opera as Method in the Work of Grace Schwindt (2016); Liquid States and the Image (in Technologism, 2015); and Curating, Dramatization and the Diagram (in The Curatorial: Philosophy as Curating, 2013).

Susan Ferguson is Associate Professor in both the Digital Media and Journalism, and the Youth and Childrens Studies programs at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. Her publications engage variously with feminist political economy, childhood and childrens culture, and public discourse and democracy. Her articles on Social Reproduction Feminism appear in Critical Sociology, New Politics, Socialist Register, Studies in Political Economy and Race, Gender and Class. Her most recent journal article in this area addresses debates within Intersectionality Feminism and appears in a special issue of Historical Materialism which she has coedited. She is currently working on a book about the social reproduction of capitalist childhoods.

Luise von Flotow has been teaching Translation Studies at the University of Ottawa since 1996. Her main research interests include feminism, gender and translation, cultural diplomacy and translation, and audiovisual translation. She is also a literary translator, most recently publishing