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Travellers of the World Revolution
The Communist International was the first organised attempt to bring about worldwide revolution and left a lasting mark on 20th-century history. The book offers a new and fascinating account of this transnational organisation founded in 1919 by Lenin and Trotsky and dissolved by Stalin in 1943, telling the story through the eyes of the activists who became its "professional revolutionaries". Studer follows such figures as Willi Mnzenberg, Mikhail Borodin, M.N. Roy and Evelyn Trent, Tina Modotti, Agnes Smedley and many others less well-known as they are despatched to the successive political hotspots of the 1920s and '30s, from revolutionary Berlin to Baku, from Shanghai to Spain, from Nazi G...
Western Privilege
Nearly 90 percent of residents in Dubai are foreigners with no Emirati nationality. As in many global cities, those who hold Western passports share specific advantages: prestigious careers, high salaries, and comfortable homes and lifestyles. With this book, Amélie Le Renard explores how race, gender and class backgrounds shape experiences of privilege, and investigates the processes that lead to the formation of Westerners as a social group. Westernness is more than a passport; it is also an identity that requires emotional and bodily labor. And as they work, hook up, parent, and hire domestic help, Westerners chase Dubai's promise of socioeconomic elevation for the few. Through an ethnography informed by postcolonial and feminist theory, Le Renard reveals the diverse experiences and trajectories of white and non-white, male and female Westerners to understand the shifting and contingent nature of Westernness—and also its deep connection to whiteness and heteronormativity. Western Privilege offers a singular look at the lived reality of structural racism in cities of the global South.
Exchanges and Correspondence
Through the eighteen essays of this book, the reader becomes the beholder of a challenging survey of “feminism-in-the-making,” from its early stages in the 18th century to the present, in Anglo-Saxon countries and elsewhere, including Eastern Europe and some places under the influence of communism or Islam. The development of exchanges and correspondence enabled feminism to pre-exist the word itself, which leads several contributors to ponder over its meaning as well as over the notion of influence, a pivotal component of their reflection. Through the complex interplay of harmony and disharmony, openly acknowledged or carefully hidden similarities or differences, and the delineation of t...
Pax Neoliberalia
Ancorada nas reflexões feministas sobre a globalização e a dinâmica das relações sociais de sexagem, raça e classe, esta obra é um ensaio sobre o uso da coerção como método - e sobre o rol da violência con- tra as mulheres - para garantia de instalação do neoliberalismo global. A instrumentalização de uma violência aparentemente "cega" que, na realidade, é tanto controlada politicamente, quanto implacável, constitui o "fio vermelho" que vincula os quatro textos que compõem o livro. Aterrorizantes semelhanças entre a tortura política e a violência doméstica, em El Salvador na América central. A criação de uma clas- se de sexo masculina dos "irmãos de armas", graça...
Sex and Secularism
"Drawing on a wealth of scholarship by second-wave feminists and historians of religion, race, and colonialism, Scott shows that the gender equality invoked today as a fundamental and enduring principle was not originally associated with the term "secularism" when it first entered the lexicon in the nineteenth century. In fact, the inequality of the sexes was fundamental to the articulation of the separation of church and state that inaugurated Western modernity. Scott points out that Western nation-states imposed a new order of women's subordination, assigning them to a feminized familial sphere meant to complement the rational masculine realms of politics and economics. It was not until the question of Islam arose in the late twentieth century that gender equality became a primary feature of the discourse of secularism"-- Publisher's description
An Anthropological Economy of Debt
Debt is often thought of as a mere economic variable governed by a simplistic mechanical logic, ignoring its other facets. Whose debt, and debt of what exactly? This volume analyzes debt as a political and social construct, with a multiplicity of purposes and agents. All of these are vectors of meanings that are highly diverse, and of subtle distinctions; they show that debt is a transverse phenomenon, cutting across spaces that are not merely economic but also domestic, social and political. Each contributor takes a fresh view of the subject, dealing with debt at a different time, in a different society, on a different scale of observation. By adopting a determinedly interdisciplinary approach, the authors reveal in the phenomenon of debt a diversity of social and gendered determinants that amount in some cases to domination, allegiance or slavery, and in others to solidarity and emancipation. Debt is at one and the same time shared, imposed, political and gendered.
Les Fugitives
L’auteur retrace le destin d’une quinzaine de jeunes femmes qui quittent leur pays du jour au lendemain, laissant parfois derrière elle famille, emploi et dans les cas les plus tragiques, des enfants. A travers ses longs portraits de « fugitives », Hélène Coutard décrit avec beaucoup de sensibilité l’insoutenable condition féminine en Arabie saoudite ; les stratégies, les ruses pour préparer la fuite. Un matin, faire comme si on partait pour son cours d’anglais et demander au taxi de foncer vers l’aéroport. Les périples sont des véritables épopées, éprouvantes, rocambolesques avec tout au bout, au Canada, en Australie ou en France, l’espoir d’une vie meilleure. ...
La libération des femmes une plus-value mondiale
Les analyses de la situation des femmes oscillent entre une dénonciation de la domination masculine qu'elles subissent, et un exposé plein d'espoir quant aux réformes accomplies dans la conquête de leur égalité avec les hommes. Le parti pris suivi dans cet ouvrage est de jeter la lumière sur les contradictions, aussi bien à l'échelle microsociale de la vie quotidienne que dans les engagements plus politiques. L'approche anthropologique et la réflexion féministe sont conjuguées pour explorer le sens de ces évolutions.
