Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age

New York and Cambridge, MA: New Museum of Contemporary Art; MIT Press, 2001. xix, 574 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art, volume 5. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. "Challenging traditional disciplinary and cultural boundaries, this text moves beyond any unified feminist historical narrative to present 'relational' feminism of diverse communities, affiliations, and practices." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Naked without shame: a counter-hegemonic body politic, by Bell Hooks; Passing for white, passing for black, by Adrian Piper; We wear the mask, by Coco Fusco; The hair trade, by Lisa Jones; Looking good: a performer's perspective, by Carmelita Tropicana; Alphabets of flesh, by Meena Alexander; Reflections on a yellow eye: Asian I (\eye/)cons and cosmetic surgery, by Kathleen Zane; No body is an island: reproduction and modernization in Puerto Rico, by Maria Milagros Lopez; Cutting through the obfuscation: female genital surgeries in neoimperial culture, by Isabelle R. Gunning; Reclaiming a human rights culture: feminism of difference and alliance, by Mallika Dutt; (Re)visio nes: a dialogue through the eyes of AIDs, activism and empowerment, by Marina Alvarez and Ginetta Candelario; WAC tales: a downtown adventure, by Janet Henry; When Florida isn't an option: testimonio on growing older in El barrio, by Petra Allende as told to Rocio Aranda-Alvarado; Imperial desire/sexual utopias: white gay capital and transnational tourims, by M. Jacqui Alexander; Don't want my orgasm simulated, by Shu Lea Cheang; "Two inches or a yard": silencing black women's sexual expression, by Tricia Rose; Those earrings, that accent, that hair: a dialogue with Maria Hinojosa on Latinos/as and the media, by Catherine Benamou; Transatlantic inscriptions: desire, diaspora, and cultural citizenship, by May Joseph; The invisible American half: Arab American hybridity and feminst discourses in the 1990s, by Mervat F. Hatem; Cross-border talk: transnational perspectives on labor, race and sexuality, by Teresa Carrillo; Savage hegemony: from "endangered species" to feminist indiginism, by M.A. Jaimes * Guerrero; Talking about the state and imagining alliances, by Wahneema Lubiano; "Beyond the pale": rearticulating U.S. Jewish whiteness, by Caren Kaplan; Crafting feminist genealogies: on the geography and politics of home, nation and community, by Chandra Talpade Mohanty; On the new global feminism and the family of nations: dilemmas of transnational feminist practice, by Inderpal Grewal.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.