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Today's highly industrialized and technologically controlled global
food systems dominate our lives, shaping our access and attitudes
towards food and deeply influencing and defining our identities. At
the same time, these food systems are profoundly and destructively
impacting the health of the environment and threatening all of us,
human and nonhuman, who must subsist in ecological conditions of
increasing fragility and scarcity. This collection examines and
exposes the myriad ways that the food systems, driven by global
commodity capitalism and its imperative of growth at any cost,
increasingly controls us and conforms us to our roles as consumers
and producers. This collection covers a range of topics from the
excess of consumers in the post-industrial world and the often
unacknowledged yet intrinsic connection of their consumption to the
growing ecological and health crises in developing nations, to
topics of surveillance and control of human and nonhuman bodies
through food, to the deep linkages of cultural values and norms
toward food to the myriad crises we face on a global scale.
Black women undertook an energetic and unprecedented engagement
with internationalism from the late nineteenth century to the
1970s. In many cases, their work reflected a complex effort to
merge internationalism with issues of women's rights and with
feminist concerns. To Turn the Whole World Over examines these and
other issues with a collection of cutting-edge essays on black
women's internationalism in this pivotal era and beyond. Analyzing
the contours of gender within black internationalism, scholars
examine the range and complexity of black women's global
engagements. At the same time, they focus on these women's
remarkable experiences in shaping internationalist movements and
dialogues. The essays explore the travels and migrations of black
women; the internationalist writings of women from Paris to Chicago
to Spain; black women advocating for internationalism through art
and performance; and the involvement of black women in politics,
activism, and global freedom struggles. Contributors: Nicole Anae,
Keisha N. Blain, Brandon R. Byrd, Stephanie Beck Cohen, Anne
Donlon, Tiffany N. Florvil, Kim Gallon, Dayo F. Gore, Annette K.
Joseph-Gabriel, Grace V. Leslie, Michael O. West, and Julia Erin
Wood
Black women undertook an energetic and unprecedented engagement
with internationalism from the late nineteenth century to the
1970s. In many cases, their work reflected a complex effort to
merge internationalism with issues of women's rights and with
feminist concerns. To Turn the Whole World Over examines these and
other issues with a collection of cutting-edge essays on black
women's internationalism in this pivotal era and beyond. Analyzing
the contours of gender within black internationalism, scholars
examine the range and complexity of black women's global
engagements. At the same time, they focus on these women's
remarkable experiences in shaping internationalist movements and
dialogues. The essays explore the travels and migrations of black
women; the internationalist writings of women from Paris to Chicago
to Spain; black women advocating for internationalism through art
and performance; and the involvement of black women in politics,
activism, and global freedom struggles. Contributors: Nicole Anae,
Keisha N. Blain, Brandon R. Byrd, Stephanie Beck Cohen, Anne
Donlon, Tiffany N. Florvil, Kim Gallon, Dayo F. Gore, Annette K.
Joseph-Gabriel, Grace V. Leslie, Michael O. West, and Julia Erin
Wood
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Indian Feminist Ecocriticism (Hardcover)
Douglas A Vakoch, Nicole Anae; Contributions by Nicole Anae, Panchali Bhattacharya, Pronami Bhattacharyya, …
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Following Francoise d'Eaubonne's creation of the term "ecofeminism"
in 1974, scholars around the world have explored ways that the
degradation of the environment and the subjugation of women are
linked. In the nearly three decades since the publication of the
classical work Ecofeminism by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva in 1993,
several collections have appeared that apply ecofeminism to
literary criticism, also known as feminist ecocriticism. The most
recent of these include anthologies that emphasize international
perspectives, furthering the comparative task launched by Mies and
Shiva. To date, however, there have been no books devoted to
gaining a broad-based understanding of feminist ecocriticism in
India, understood in its own terms. Our new volume Indian Feminist
Ecocriticism offers a survey of literature as seen through an
ecofeminist lens by Indian scholars, which places contemporary
literary analysis through a sampling of its diverse languages and
in the context of millennia-old mythic traditions of India.
Today's highly industrialized and technologically controlled global
food systems dominate our lives, shaping our access and attitudes
towards food and deeply influencing and defining our identities. At
the same time, these food systems are profoundly and destructively
impacting the health of the environment and threatening all of us,
human and nonhuman, who must subsist in ecological conditions of
increasing fragility and scarcity. This collection examines and
exposes the myriad ways that the food systems, driven by global
commodity capitalism and its imperative of growth at any cost,
increasingly controls us and conforms us to our roles as consumers
and producers. This collection covers a range of topics from the
excess of consumers in the post-industrial world and the often
unacknowledged yet intrinsic connection of their consumption to the
growing ecological and health crises in developing nations, to
topics of surveillance and control of human and nonhuman bodies
through food, to the deep linkages of cultural values and norms
toward food to the myriad crises we face on a global scale.
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