| Witness: Wsq: Spring/Summer 2008 2008 Spring/Sum Edition Contributor(s): Abrams, Kathryn (Editor), Kacandes, Irene (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1558615776 ISBN-13: 9781558615779 Publisher: Feminist Press OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2008 Annotation: From sharing stories of violence to campaigning for women's suffrage, feminism was born of acts of witness. This collection asks: Who are the feminist witnesses who inspire us? And how have societies responded to acts of witness? Writers explore topics from the concrete to the abstract, investigating historical and contemporary events, and identifying the harder-to-define effects these acts have on observers. Kathryn Abrams is the Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor at the School of Law, Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley. Irene Kacandes is an associate professor of German and comparative literature at Dartmouth College. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Series: Women's Studies Quarterly |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.08 lbs) 196 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Feminism was born of acts of witness, and throughout its many transformations, bearing witness has played crucial roles. This issue looks at the legal and political contexts that have structured women's efforts to testify to injustice; it examines new methodologies that feminists have used to bear witness and the role of objects in the process of testifying; and highlights the experience of contemporary and historical feminist witnesses to oppression and transformation. Featuring essays by scholars such as Susan Brison, Ann Cvetkovich, Marianne Hirsch, Rosanne Kennedy, Nancy K. Miller, Judith Resnik, Valerie Smith, and Leo Spitzer, and a retrospective on the work of Judith Herman, this issue asks how witnessing might be understood and fortified as a vehicle for feminist understanding, resistance, and change. |