The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Global and the Intimate

GERALDINE PRATT AND VICTORIA ROSNER

I THE ANATOMY OF INTIMACY: BODIES, FEELINGS, AND THE EVERYDAY

1. Intimacy: A Useful Category of Transnational Analysis

2. In the Interests of Taste and Place: Economies of Attachment

3. Jamaica Kincaid’s Practical Politics of the Intimate in My Garden (book):

AGNESE FIDECARO

4. Widening Circles

II MEMORY, HISTORY, COMMUNITY: PERSONAL NARRATIVE IN A TRANSNATIONAL FRAME

5. Facing: Intimacy Across Divisions

6. Objects of Return

MARIANNE HIRSCH

7. Narratives and Rights: Zlata’s Diary and the Circulation of Stories of Suffering Ethnicity

8. Letter from Argentina

NANCY K. MILLER

III LEGISLATING INTIMACY: WOMEN’S WORK, STATE CONTROL, AND THE POLITICS OF REPUTATION

9. “Security Moms” in Twenty-First-Century U.S.A.: The Gender of Security in Neoliberalism

INDERPAL GREWAL

10. “Like a Family, But Not Quite”: Emotional Labor and Cinematic Politics of Intimacy

TSUNG-YI MICHELLE HUANG AND CHI-SHE LI

11. What We Women Talk About When We Talk About Interracial Love

12. The Pedagogy of the Spiral: Intimacy and Captivity in a Women’s Prison

MARISA BELAUSTEGUIGOITIA RIUS

IV GLOBAL FEMINISM AND THE SUBJECTS OF KNOWLEDGE

13. Witnessing, Femicide, and a Politics of the Familiar

MELISSA W. WRIGHT

14. Solidarity, Self-Critique, and Survival: Sangtin’s Struggles with Fieldwork

SANGTIN WRITERS

15. Tehran Kids

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