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Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred by M. Jacqui Alexander

Authors: M. Jacqui Alexander, Judith Halberstam (Editor), Lisa Lowe
ISBN-13: 9780822336457, ISBN-10: 0822336456
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: January 2006
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: M. Jacqui Alexander

M. Jacqui Alexander is Professor of Women’s Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. She is a coeditor of Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray! Feminist Visions for a Just World and Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures.

Book Synopsis

A collection of essays by Alexander addressing the implications of transnational thinking for our understanding of gender, sex, sexuality, and race.

I	Transnational erotics : state, capital, and the decolonization of desire
1	Erotic autonomy as a politics of decolonization : feminism, tourism, and the state in the Bahamas	21
2	Imperial desire/sexual utopias : white gay capital and transnational tourism	66
II	Maps of empire, old and new
3	Whose new world order? : teaching for justice	91
4	Anatomy of a mobilization	117
5	Transnationalism, sexuality, and the state : modernity's traditions at the height of empire	181
III	Dangerous memory : secular acts, sacred possession
6	Remembering This bridge called my back, remembering ourselves	257
7	Pedagogies of the sacred : making the invisible tangible	287