Vexy thing : on gender and liberation / Imani Perry.

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,...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Duke)
Main Author: Perry, Imani, 1972- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • Seafaring, sovereignty, and the self : of patriarchy and the conditions of modernity
  • Producing personhood : the rise of capitalism and the Western subject
  • Interlude 1. How did we get here? nobody's supposed to be here
  • In the ether : neoliberalism and entrepreneurial woman
  • Simulacra child : hypermedia and the mediated subject
  • Sticks broken at the river : the security state and the violence of manhood
  • Interlude 2. Returning to the witches
  • Unmaking the territory and remapping the landscape
  • The utterance of my name : invitation and the disorder of desire
  • The vicar of liberation.