By placing the global and the intimate in near relation, sixteen essays by prominent feminist scholars and authors forge a distinctively feminist approach to questions of transnational relations, economic development, and intercultural exchange. This pairing enables personal modes of writing and engagement with globalization debates and forges a definition of justice keyed to the specificity of time, place, and feeling. Writing from multiple disciplinary and geographical perspectives, the contributors participate in a long-standing feminist tradition of upending spatial hierarchies and making theory out of the practices of everyday life.
Table of Content
Introduction: The Global and the Intimate — Geraldine Pratt and Victoria Rosner I. The Anatomy of Intimacy: Bodies, Feelings, and the Everyday
1. Intimacy: A Useful Category of Transnational Analysis — Ara Wilson
2. In the Interests of Taste and Place: Economies of Attachment — Elspeth Probyn
3. Jamaica Kincaid’s Practical Politics of the Intimate in My Garden (book) — Agnese Fidecaro
4. Widening Circles — Rachel Adams II. Memory, History, Community: Personal Narrative in a Transnational Frame
5. Facing: Intimacy Across Divisions — Mieke Bal
6. Objects of Return — Marianne Hirsch
7. Narratives and Rights: Zlata’s Diary and the Circulation of Stories of Suffering Ethnicity — Sidonie Smith
8. Letter from Argentina — Nancy K. Miller III. Legislating Intimacy: Women’s Work, State Control, and the Politics of Reputation
9. ‘Security Moms’ in Twenty-First-Century U.S.A.: The Gender of Security in Neoliberalism — Inderpal Grewal
10. ‘Like a Family, But Not Quite’: Emotional Labor and Cinematic Politics of Intimacy — Tsung-Yi Michelle Huang and Chi-She Li
11. What We Women Talk About When We Talk About Interracial Love — Min Jin Lee
12. The Pedagogy of the Spiral: Intimacy and Captivity in a Women’s Prison — Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius IV. Global Feminism and the Subjects of Knowledge
13. Witnessing, Femicide, and a Politics of the Familiar — Melissa W. Wright
14. Solidarity, Self-Critique, and Survival: Sangtin’s Struggles with Fieldwork — Sangtin Writers
15. Tehran Kids — Mikhal Dekel
About the author
Geraldine Pratt is professor of geography at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Working Feminism and Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love and the coauthor of Gender, Work, and Space.Victoria Rosner is the dean of the New York University Gallatin School and professor of humanities and English. She is the author of Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life (Columbia, 2005).
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