The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time

Columbia University Press

Publishers Since 1893

New York Chichester, West Sussex

cup.columbia.edu

E-ISBN 978-0-231-52084-3

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The global and the intimate : feminism in our time/edited by Geraldine Pratt and Victoria Rosner.

p. cm.—(Gender and culture)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-231-15448-2 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-231-15449-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-231-52084-3 (e-book)

1. Feminism—Case studies. 2. Intimacy (Psychology)—Case studies.

I. Pratt, Geraldine. II. Rosner, Victoria.

HQ1154.G55 2012

305.42—dc23

2012003963

A Columbia University Press E-book.
CUP would be pleased to hear about your reading experience with this e-book at cup-ebook@columbia.edu.

References to Internet Web sites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor Columbia University Press is responsible for Web sites that may have expired or changed since the book was prepared.

The chapters “Jamaica Kincaid’s Practical Politics of the Intimate in My Garden (book):,” by Agnese Fidecaro; “Narratives and Rights: Zlata’s Diary and the Circulation of Stories of Suffering Ethnicity,” by Sidonie Smith; and “‘Security Moms’ in Twenty-First Century U.S.A.: The Gender of Security in Neoliberalism,” by Inderpal Grewal have been revised from articles that originally appeared in WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 34.1/2 (2006).