Transatlantic Conversations: Feminism as Travelling TheoryKathy Davis, Mary Evans Examining the meaning and implications of the different ways in which various shared categories have been treated on both sides of the Atlantic, this volume both analyses differences within feminism and provides a framework for the wider discussion of what is sometimes assumed to be the homogeneity of the West. |
Contents
Feminism as Travelling Theory | 1 |
Becoming a Feminist in a Transatlantic Context | 13 |
A Feminist Transatlantic Education | 15 |
Crossings | 23 |
My Father an Agent of State Feminism and Other Unrelatable Conversations | 33 |
Bridging Different Gaps East West Europe and the USA? | 41 |
Activism Inside and Outside the Academy | 53 |
Renarrating Feminist Stories Black British Women and Transatlantic Feminisms | 55 |
Chronos and Knowledge A Target of the Feminist Agenda Today | 101 |
Passages to Feminism Encounters and Rearticulations | 115 |
Theoretical Engagements | 125 |
There are Many Transatlantics Homonationalism Homotransnationalism and FeministQueerTrans of Colour Theories and Practices | 127 |
Often Whats Not Said is Just as Important as What Is Transnational Feminist Encounters | 145 |
On Not Engaging with Whats Right in Front of Us Or Race Ethnicity and Gender in Reading Womens Writing | 157 |
Visions of Legacy Legacies of Vision | 167 |
Feminist Travels A Historical and Textual Journey | 183 |
Floating Signifiers and Fluid Identities Feminist and Other Queer Travels | 69 |
Writing in the Dark Reflections on Becoming a Feminist | 79 |
Is there a Feminist in this Class? Academic Feminism and its Generations across the Atlantic | 93 |
Constellations Conversations Three Stories | 201 |
Epilogue | 219 |
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