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Object Lessons

Object Lessons

Wiegman, Robyn

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Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

Literary CriticismGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 0822351609
ISBN13: 9780822351603
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 11 2012
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
No concept has been more central to the emergence and evolution of identity studies than social justice. In historical and theoretical accounts, it crystallizes the progressive politics that have shaped the academic study of race, gender, and sexuality. Yet few scholars have deliberated directly on the political agency that notions of justice confer on critical practice. In Object Lessons, Robyn Wiegman contemplates this lack of attention, offering the first sustained inquiry into the political desire that galvanizes identity fields. In each chapter, she examines a key debate by considering the political aspirations that shape it. Addressing Women's Studies, she traces the ways that gender promises to overcome the exclusions of women. Turning to Ethnic Studies, she examines the deconstruction of whiteness as an antiracist methodology. As she explores American Studies, she links internationalization to the broader quest for noncomplicity in contemporary criticism. Her analysis of Queer Studies demonstrates how the commitment to antinormativity normalizes the field. In the penultimate chapter, Wiegman addresses intersectionality as the most coveted theoretical approach to political resolution in all of these fields.

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