Living West as Feminists
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-2953-3 (ISBN)
In the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Krista Comer invited fifteen colleagues into a conversation about feminism and the U.S. West. From her travels over some thirteen thousand miles to places chosen by participants comes a remarkable series of dialogues focusing on questions about the where of us—the places that we love or belong, or don’t belong, and who we are in them.
Living West as Feminists moves from travelogue to interviews to critical meditations. It asks who one’s people are, to whom one feels accountable, and how we might make peace with the itinerant, often displaced lives of late-stage capitalist culture. Ultimately, the book understands feminism not as a specific politics or set of theories but as a network of relations. Its coalitional perspective allows for coming together even while distinguishing feminists who write from Black, Indigenous, queer, Chicanx, and materialist perspectives. Feminist rest areas, in which relational securities find footing, can create the most priceless resource in desperate times: well-being and political hope.
Krista Comer is a professor of English at Rice University and director of the Institute for Women Surfers. She is the author of Surfer Girls in the New World Order and Landscapes of the New West: Gender and Geography in Contemporary Women’s Writing.
List of Illustrations
The Invitation
Feminist Road-Tripping and Other Introductions
The Blog Launches Us
Part 1: Summer 2021
The Relations Holding Us, with Priscilla Solis Ybarra
Querencia across Generations, with Elena Valdez
Remaking the Heart of Aztlán, with Melina Vizcaíno-Alemán
Feminist Homing and Unhoming, with Amy Hamilton
Road Finds: On Keeping Company
Outside the Picture Window in Pueblo, with Krista Comer
Deciding to Remember the Many Strands of Home, with Linda Karell
Lunch, with Clark Whitehorn
For Me, the West Is Rural, with Randi Tanglen
Road Finds: What Lingers in the Air
Finding Community through Transcription, with Zainab Abdali (Guest Post)
A Rendezvous, with Melody Graulich
A Fighting Zapotec Feminism, with Lourdes “Lulu” Alberto
Colville Women, Always in Charge, with Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Road Finds: Slowing Down for Home
Retracing the Western Black Family in Whitehouse, Texas, with Kalenda Eaton
Part 2: Summer 2022
Launching in the Time of Family, with Krista Comer
The Archives of Gardens, with Audrey Goodman
The Both/And, with Susan Bernardin
Road Finds: Falling Rocks
Returning to Pueblo as Myself, with Krista Comer
Road Finds: El Pueblo Museum
True Confessions of a Settler Scholar, with Victoria Lamont
Reconciling Feminism, with Margaret Jacobs
Road Finds: Coming Full Circle
Conclusion: Relational Work Ahead
Acknowledgments
Interview Protocol
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.02.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 18 photographs, 2 illustrations, index |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-2953-3 / 1496229533 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-2953-3 / 9781496229533 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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