This book provides a timely new transnational lineage of Jewish feminist revolutionary legacies. Using extensive research, deep thinking, and a bold methodology, Marla Brettschneider tousles with a host of anti-colonial, feminist, anti-racist, and queer troublemakers—Jamaica Kincaid, Golda Meir, Hannah Arendt, Frida Kahlo, Gertrude Stein, and Emma Goldman. Brettschneider brings together these feisty women’s lives, work, politics, thinking, and art to wrestle with big questions: How can we make our lives, individually and collectively, in our diversity as Jews and in grounded solidarity with others? How do these women bring out otherwise unidentified, unnamed, and underexamined issues in Jewish studies, feminism, politics, and a range of critical theories?
Revolutionary Legacies invites Jews, feminists, anti-racists, and all manner of justice seekers to think, and create common cause, with these rabblerousers.
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Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Jamaica Kincaid: Diasporic and De-colonial Interstices
3. Golda Meir: Smashing Binaries of Gender, Diaspora, and Anticolonialism
4. Hannah Arendt:
Rahel Varnhagen and Diasporic De-colonial Justice Theorizing: On Pariahs and Parvenu?e.s
5. Frida Kahlo: On Creating Vibrant, Transnational Jewish Networks
6. Gertrude Stein: A Queer Feminist Jew-ing: Constraints and Possibilities for Post-Emancipation Jewish Lives
7. Emma Goldman: Anarchist Feminism, a New Frame for Diasporic Longings and Jewish Studies?
Notes
References
Index
Sobre o autor
Marla Brettschneider is Professor of Political Theory, with a joint appointment in the Politics and Feminist Studies Departments, at the University of New Hampshire. She is the editor of
Jewcy: Jewish Queer Lesbian Feminisms for the Twenty-First Century and author of
Jewish Feminism and Intersectionality, both also published by SUNY Press.