Violence and the body
Subtitle: race, gender, and the state
By: edited by Arturo J. Aldama ; foreword by Alfred Arteaga.
Contributors: Aldama, Arturo J., 1964-
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
Subjects: Violence; Social control; Feminist theory; Body, Human -- Political aspects; Body, Human -- Social aspects; Race relations -- Political aspects; Sexism; Marginality, Social
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Violence, bodies, and the color of fear: an introduction / Arturo J. Aldama; title: Borders, violence, and the struggle for Chicana and Chicano subjectivity / Arturo J. Aldama; title: Hungarian poetic nationalism or national pornography?: Eastern Europe and feminism-with a difference / Anikó Imre; title: Militarizing the feminine body: women's participation in the Tamil nationalist struggle / Yamuna Sangarasivam; title: Blood and dirt: politics of women's protest in Armagh prison, Northern Ireland / Leila Neti; title: Bodily metaphors, material exclusions: the sexual and racial politics of domestic partnership in France / Catherine Raissiguier; title: Mattering national bodies and sexualities: corporeal contest in Marcos and Brocka / Rolando B. Tolentino; title: The time of violence: deconstruction and value / Elizabeth Grosz; title: Consuming cannibalism: the body in Australia's Pacific archive / Mike Hayes; title: Global genocide and biocolonialism: on the effect of the human genome diversity project on targeted indigenous peoples/ecocultures as "isolates of historic interest" / M. A. Jaimes Guerrero; title: Angola, convict leasing, and the annulment of freedom: the vectors of architectural and discursive violence in the U.S. "slavery of prison" / Dennis Childs; title: Bernhard Goetz and the politics of fear / Jonathan Markovitz; title: Pierced tongues: language and violence in Carmen Boullosa's Dystopia / Margarita Saona; title: Constituting transgressive interiorities: nineteenth-century psychiatric readings of morally mad bodies / Heidi Rimke; title: When electrolysis proxies for the existential: a somewhat sordid meditation on what might occur if Frantz Fanon, Rosario Castellanos, Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Sandra Cisneros asked Rita Hayworth her name / William Anthony Nericcio and Guillermo Nericcio García; title: Double cross: transmasculinity and Asian American gendering in trappings of transhood / Sel J. Wahng; title: Teumsae-eso: Korean American women between feminism and nationalism / Elaine H. Kim; title: Mapuche shamanic bodies and the Chilean state: polemic gendered representations and indigenous responses / Ana Mariella Bacigalupo; title: Re/membering the body: Latina testimonies of social and family violence / Yvette Flores-Ortiz; title: Sita's war and the body politic: violence and abuse in the lives of South Asian women / Sunita Peacock; title: Arturo Ripstein's El lugar sin límites and the hell of heteronormativity / David William Foster; title: Medicalizing human rights and domesticizing violence in postdictatorship market-states / Lessie Jo Frazier; title: Las super madres de Latino America: transforming motherhood and houseskirts by challenging violence in Juárez, México, Argentina, and El Salvador / Cynthia L. Bejarano.