Perverse politics? : feminism, anti-imperialism, multiplicity /

• Other Authors: Orloff, Ann Shola., Ray, Raka., Savci, Evren.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2016.
• Series: Political power and social theory ; v. 30.
• Subjects: Political Science > History & Theory.; Political science and theory.; Feminism > Political aspects.
• Online Access: Access Fulltext via EzAccess

The papers collected here offer anti-imperialist feminist alternatives to second wave feminism's often reductive understandings of freedom; emancipation; oppression; empowerment and democracy.

Table of Contents:

• Perverse politics? feminism, anti-imperialism, multiplicity / Ann Shola Orloff, Raka Ray, Evren Savci
• Perverse humanitarianism and the business of rescue: what's wrong with NGOs and what's right about the "Johns"? / Kimberly Kay Hoang
• Redemptive capitalism and sexual investability / Elizabeth Bernstein
• Troubling the subject of violence: the pacifist presumption, martial maternalism, and armed women in contemporary gun culture / Jennifer Carlson
• Feminism/s in power: rethinking gender equality after the second wave / Ann Shola Orloff, Talia Schiff
• Contextualizing the closet: naz, law, and sexuality in postcolonial India / Savina Balasubramanian
• Subjects of rights and subjects of cruelty: the production of an Islamic backlash against homosexuality in Turkey / Evren Savci.