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Weinbaum Alys Eve Weinbaum

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23 juin 2004

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9780822385820

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

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Wayward Reproductions breaks apart and transfigures prevailing understandings of the interconnection among ideologies of racism, nationalism, and imperialism. Alys Eve Weinbaum demonstrates how these ideologies were founded in large part on what she calls "the race/reproduction bind"--the notion that race is something that is biologically reproduced. In revealing the centrality of ideas about women's reproductive capacity to modernity's intellectual foundations, Weinbaum highlights the role that these ideas have played in naturalizing oppression. She argues that attention to how the race/reproduction bind is perpetuated across national and disciplinary boundaries is a necessary part of efforts to combat racism.Gracefully traversing a wide range of discourses--including literature, evolutionary theory, early anthropology, Marxism, feminism, and psychoanalysis--Weinbaum traces a genealogy of the race/reproduction bind within key intellectual formations of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She examines two major theorists of genealogical thinking-Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault-and unearths the unacknowledged ways their formulations link race and reproduction. She explores notions of kinship and the replication of racial difference that run through Charlotte Perkins Gilman's work; Marxist thinking based on Friedrich Engel's The Origin of the Family; Charles Darwin's theory of sexual selection; and Sigmund Freud's early studies on hysteria. She also describes W. E. B. Du Bois's efforts to transcend ideas about the reproduction of race that underwrite citizenship and belonging within the United States. In a coda, Weinbaum brings the foregoing analysis to bear on recent genomic and biotechnological innovations.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

23 juin 2004

EAN13

9780822385820

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

Wayward Reproductions

Next Wave

New Directions in Women’s Studies

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Wayward Reproductions

Genealogies of Race and Nation

in Transatlantic Modern Thought

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©  Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper  Designed by Rebecca Giménez Typeset in Sabon by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. Acknowledgments for the use of copyrighted material appear on page  which constitutes an extension of the copyright page.

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Contents

Acknowledgments, ix

Introduction, 

. Genealogy Unbound: Reproduction and Contestation of the Racial Nation, 

. Writing Feminist Genealogy: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Reproduction of Racial Nationalism, 

. Engels’s Originary Ruse: Race and Reproduction in the Story of Capital, 

. Sexual Selection and the Birth of Psychoanalysis: Darwin, Freud, and the Universalization of Wayward Reproduction, 

. The Sexual Politics of Black Internationalism: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Reproduction of Racial Globality, 

Coda: Gene/alogies for a New Millennium, 

Notes, 

Works Cited, 

Index, 

Acknowledgments

I have been working on the cultures and politics of reproduction for well over a decade and thus this book has roots in ideas, ques-tions, and conversations that captured my imagination long before I began to conceive of it as a book. It is a pleasure to arrive at an end of sorts, in no small part because it provides an occasion to ex-press my profound gratitude to those who have guided, inspired, and sustained me on an extended journey. My mentors, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Priscilla Wald, gave immeasurable gifts of teaching and scholarship, and continue to give the friendship and support that mean so much to me. Gaya-tri has modeled a feminist sensibility that I will always draw upon. Priscilla, as is her wont, has given commitment new meaning. For her boundless enthusiasm, wise counsel, and willingness to jump in I thank Susan Gillman. For getting me started so many years back I am deeply indebted to Neil Lazarus, Mary Ann Doane, Elizabeth Weed, and Jacqueline Rose. An extraordinary group of interlocutors have engaged this book at each stage. For reading the entire manuscript and oﬀer-ing thoughtful and detailed suggestions for improvement I thank Gail Bederman, Sarah Franklin, Susan Gillman, Miranda Joseph, and Priscilla Wald. The members of my feminist writing group at the University of Washington, Madeleine Yue Dong, Ranjana Kahanna, Uta Poiger, Priti Ramamurthy, and Lynn Thomas, of-fered astute commentary on much of the manuscript. I hope these readers ﬁnd that my revisions reﬂect their contributions well. For generously engaging various pieces of this project and oﬀering feedback on what worked and what needed more work I thank Carolyn Allen, Tani Barlow, Bruce Burgett, Michael Denning, Gary Handwerk, Nancy Hartsock, Paget Henry, Jeanne Heuving,

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