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Flores de la gran ciudad
Flores de la gran ciudad es una historia situada en las calles de Riga, Letonia, en sus esquinas sucias. Allí donde, si se presta un poco de atención, no es difícil ver una realidad que muchas veces preferimos pasar por alto. Inmersas en el paisaje de la ciudad y más allá de las agradables fachadas de las casas, se revelan las historias de las personas que están en situación de prostitución. Este libro, dice la autora, es "el diario visual de las épocas en que, como trabajadora social, ayudaba a esas mujeres". Sus verdaderos rostros, a pesar del recorrido por el tráfico, la trata, el abuso de drogas y alcohol, y la violencia, nos muestran a personas con sueños, esperanzas y miedos...
Violación consentida
Cuando alguien cuenta su experiencia, esa narración adquiere un valor muy particular para sí mismo porque le permite examinarse. Pero también, por esa vía, nos vemos a nosotros mismos en sus palabras y podemos evaluar nuestros comportamientos. Cuando esa experiencia se cuenta, puede ser incorporada al curso de la historia, porque esas vivencias son parte de un caudal más general, de una necesidad colectiva. La importancia de ciertos testimonios radica, precisamente, en que esa experiencia individual es la de muchos otros y sirve para posicionarse en un campo de lucha. Estas reflexiones que nos ofrece la autora, tienen un interés muy directo para la etapa que estamos atravesando las mujeres. Con cada testimonio, cada una va descubriendo que la experiencia de nuestra subordinación bajo el patriarcado y en esta sociedad de clases, es colectiva.
Flores de la Gran Ciudad
Flores de la gran ciudad es una historia situada en las calles de Riga, Letonia, en sus esquinas sucias. Allí donde, si se presta un poco de atención, no es difícil ver una realidad que muchas veces preferimos pasar por alto. Inmersas en el paisaje de la ciudad y más allá de las agradables fachadas de las casas, se revelan las historias de las personas que están en situación de prostitución. Este libro, dice la autora, es "el diario visual de las épocas en que, como trabajadora social, ayudaba a esas mujeres". Sus verdaderos rostros, a pesar del recorrido por el tráfico, la trata, el abuso de drogas y alcohol, y la violencia, nos muestran a personas con sueños, esperanzas y miedos...
Identity Politics Reconsidered
Based on the ongoing work of the agenda-setting Future of Minority Studies national research project, Identity Politics Reconsidered reconceptualizes the scholarly and political significance of social identity. It focuses on the deployment of 'identity' within ethnic, women's, disability, and gay and lesbian studies in order to stimulate discussion about issues that are simultaneously theoretical and practical, ranging from ethics and epistemology to political theory and pedagogical practice. This collection of powerful essays by both well-known and emerging scholars offers original answers to questions concerning the analytical legitimacy of 'identity' and 'experience', and the relationships among cultural autonomy, moral universalism and progressive politics.
Real Knowing
"Real" knowing always involves a political dimension, Linda Martín Alcoff suggests. But this does not mean we need to give up realism or the possibility of truth. Recent work in continental philosophy insists on the influence that power and desire exert on knowing, whereas contemporary analytic philosophy largely ignores these political concerns in its accounts of justification and truth. Alcoff engages these traditionally conflicting approaches in a constructive dialogue, effectively spanning the analytic/continental divide.In provocative readings of major figures in the continental tradition, Alcoff shows that the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Michel Foucault can help rectify key problem...
The Future of Whiteness
White identity is in ferment. White, European Americans living in the United States will soon share an unprecedented experience of slipping below 50% of the population. The impending demographic shifts are already felt in most urban centers and the effect is a national backlash of hyper-mobilized political, and sometimes violent, activism with a stated aim that is simultaneously vague and deadly clear: 'to take our country back.' Meanwhile the spectre of 'minority status' draws closer, and the material advantages of being born white are eroding. This is the political and cultural reality tackled by Linda Martín Alcoff in The Future of Whiteness. She argues that whiteness is here to stay, at...
Girls to the Front
“Not only a historical rockument of the revolutionary 90s counterculture Riot Grrrl movement. . . but also a rousing inspiration for a new generation of empowered rebel girls to strap on guitars and stick it to The Man.” — Vanity Fair Girls to the Front is the epic, definitive history of the Riot Grrrl movement—the radical feminist punk uprising that exploded into the public eye in the 1990s, altering America’s gender landscape forever. Author Sara Marcus, a music and politics writer for Time Out New York, Slate.com, Pos, and Heeb magazine, interweaves research, interviews, and her own memories as a Riot Grrrl front-liner. Her passionate, sophisticated narrative brilliantly conveys the story of punk bands like Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Heavens to Betsy—as well as successors like Sleater-Kinney, Partyline, and Kathleen Hanna’s Le Tigre—and their effect on today’s culture.
The Topography of Violence in the Greco-Roman World
Examines how location confers cultural meaning on acts of violence, and renders them socially acceptable--or not
Feminism for Women
'Timely, necessary and important' J.K. Rowling '[This book is] guaranteed to remind us what we have still to fight for. I can't think of a single person who wouldn't benefit from reading it' Observer 'Bindel is a rock star of second-wave feminism . . . an important, courageous book' The Times 'Bindel delivers a robust call to arms in every chapter . . . this book could not be timelier . . . As a young feminist who has finally seen the light, I consider it essential reading' The Critic Feminism is a quest for the liberation of women from patriarchy. Feminism strives for a world in which women are not oppressed. Feminism prioritises exposing and ending male violence towards women and girls. Th...
