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Overview"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. 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. 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. She also outlines how digital media and technology, neoliberalism, and the security state continue to prop up patriarchy. By exploring the past and present of patriarchy in the world we have inherited and are building for the future, Perry exposes its mechanisms of domination as a necessary precursor to dismantling it." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Imani PerryPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9781478000815ISBN 10: 1478000813 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 28 September 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Seafaring, Sovereignty, and the Self: Of Patriarchy and the Conditions of Modernity 14 2. Producing Personhood: The Rise of Capitalism and the Western Subject 42 Interlude 1. How Did We Get Here? Nobody's Supposed to Be Here 86 3. In the Ether: Neoliberalism and Entrepreneurial Woman 98 4. Simulacra Child: Hypermedia and the Mediated Subject 129 5. Sticks Broken at the River: The Security State and the Violence of Manhood 151 Interlude 2. Returning to the Witches 171 6. Unmaking the Territory and Remapping the Landscape 177 7. The Utterance of My Name: Invitation and the Disorder of Desire 199 8. The Vicar of Liberation 226 Notes 255 Bibliography 273 Index 283ReviewsPerry presents a feminist reading praxis that examines history, theory and academic scholarship to provide the basis for understanding how patriarchy informs our individual and collective selves. This book should be on the shelf of any graduate student working in the fields of feminist scholarship and critical race theory. -- Katelan Dunn * LSE Review of Books * Using historical examples, narrative vignettes, and meditative interludes, Perry pushes the conventions of academic writing in part to advocate for feminism as critical reading practice rather than doctrine. . . . [She] invite[s] the reader to consider patriarchy not as a parallel structure repeating itself across cultures but rather an iterative and changeable force constituted through its interactions with race, empire, geographic location, and other intersections. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates and above. -- S. L. Vandermeade * Choice * Vexy Thing recontextualizes feminism and patriarchy in an era when both terms have been systemically emptied by market forces; she reminds us that the patriarch is an institutional concept and reminds us of its insidiousness in our everyday life through a devastatingly sharp historical critique, necessarily centering black women as the locus of her conversation. -- Julianne Escobedo Shepherd * Jezebel * Perry presents a feminist reading praxis that examines history, theory and academic scholarship to provide the basis for understanding how patriarchy informs our individual and collective selves. This book should be on the shelf of any graduate student working in the fields of feminist scholarship and critical race theory. -- Katelan Dunn * LSE Review of Books * Vexy Thing recontextualizes feminism and patriarchy in an era when both terms have been systemically emptied by market forces; she reminds us that the patriarch is an institutional concept and reminds us of its insidiousness in our everyday life through a devastatingly sharp historical critique, necessarily centering black women as the locus of her conversation. -- Julianne Escobedo Shepherd * Jezebel * Vexy Thing recontextualizes feminism and patriarchy in an era when both terms have been systemically emptied by market forces; she reminds us that the patriarch is an institutional concept and reminds us of its insidiousness in our everyday life through a devastatingly sharp historical critique, necessarily centering black women as the locus of her conversation. -- Julianne Escobedo Shepherd * Jezebel * Given the political turn in the United States in November of 2016, Imani Perry's Vexy Thing will become a central text for those involved in discussions of that thing called 'the patriarchy.' By thinking of patriarchy as a single phenomenon across different registers, Perry guides the reader into their own sense of its stronghold on American, if not global iterations of self and other, state and nation. This is a powerful statement about feminism for the here and now. --Sharon Patricia Holland, author of The Erotic Life of Racism Imani Perry's Vexy Thing is a strong and confidently argued statement for a kind of feminism that attends in new ways to how logics of gender domination are part of wider logics of domination--how regimes of gender must be considered under a lens that also makes visible austerity and neoliberalism, hypermedia and the security state. Vexy Thing expands our notions of what a feminist critic can do while giving the reader a real sense of an important intellectual at work. --Sara Ahmed, author of Living a Feminist Life Imani Perry's Vexy Thing is a strong and confidently argued statement for a kind of feminism that attends in new ways to how logics of gender domination are part of wider logics of domination--how regimes of gender must be considered under a lens that also makes visible austerity and neoliberalism, hypermedia and the security state. Vexy Thing expands our notions of what a feminist critic can do while giving the reader a real sense of an important intellectual at work. --Sara Ahmed, author of Living a Feminist Life Given the political turn in the United States in November of 2016, Imani Perry's Vexy Thing will become a central text for those involved in discussions of that thing called 'the patriarchy.' By thinking of patriarchy as a single phenomenon across different registers, Perry guides the reader into their own sense of its stronghold on American, if not global iterations of self and other, state and nation. This is a powerful statement about feminism for the here and now. --Sharon Patricia Holland, author of The Erotic Life of Racism Author InformationImani Perry is Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop, also published by Duke University Press, and More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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