The first collection of its kind,
Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thoughtis historically organized and transnational in scope, highlighting key ideas, transformative moments, and feminist conversations across national and cultural borders. Emphasizing feminist cross-talk, transnational collaborations and influences, and cultural differences in context, this anthology heralds a new approach to studying feminist history.
Provocations includes engaging, historically significant primary sources by writers of many nationalities in numerous genresfrom political manifestos to theoretical and cultural analysis to poetry and fiction. These texts range from those of classical antiquity to others composed during the Arab Spring and represent Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Western Europe, and the United States. Each section begins with an introductory essay that presents central ideas and explores connections among readings, placing them in historical, national, and intellectual contexts and concluding with questions for discussion and reflection.
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Susan Bordois Professor of Gender and Womens Studies and holds the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky. Her publications includeUnbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body; The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private;andThe Creation of Anne Boleyn: ANew Look at England's Most Notorious Queen.
M. Cristina Alcaldeis Associate Professor of Gender and Womens Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is author ofThe Woman in the Violence: Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peruand numerous articles on migration, gender violence, race, and masculinities.
Ellen Rosenmanis Provosts Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Kentucky . She is author ofThe Invisible Presence: Virginia Woolf and the Mother-Dl“_
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