Vexy Thing - On Gender and Liberation Perry ImaniPaperback
Vexy Thing - On Gender and Liberation Perry ImaniPaperback Even as feminism has become increasingly central to our ideas about institutions, relationships, and everyday life, the term used to…
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Vexy Thing - On Gender and Liberation Perry ImaniPaperback
Even as feminism has become increasingly central to our ideas about institutions, relationships, and everyday life, the term used to diagnose the problem--"patriarchy"--is used so loosely that it has lost its meaning. Drawing on a rich array of sources--from nineteenth-century slavery court cases and historical vignettes to writings by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde and art by Kara Walker and Wangechi Mutu--Perry shows how the figure of the patriarch emerged as part and parcel of modernity, the nation-state, the Industrial Revolution, and globalization. In Vexy Thing Imani Perry resurrects patriarchy as a target of critique, recentering it to contemporary discussions of feminism through a social and literary analysis of cultural artifacts from the Enlightenment to the present.
She also outlines how digital media and technology, neoliberalism, and the security state continue to