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The Politics of Recognition and Social Justice

Transforming Subjectivities in the New Millennium

Edited by Bob Pease, Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli

To Be Published September 15th 2013 by Routledge – 160 pages

Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

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Description

Through a series of case studies of groups challenging social inequalities - based in class, race, culture, nationality, sexuality, religion, age, and disability - this book develops a critical-theoretical account of forms of resistance. It explores how people make sense of their subjectivity as they are constructed and reconstructed within relations of power, and what kinds of subjectivities are needed to struggle against forms of dominance. While each contribution to the volume foregrounds particular subjectivities, they apply an intersectional analysis to the particular sites of the struggle they are addressing.

Contents

1. Recognition, Resistance and Reconstruction: An Introduction to Subjectivities and Social Justice

Part I Reconstructing Gendered Subjectivities

2. The Subjectivity of Gendered Normative Coercion and Subversive Gender Performance

3. "Mincing, Striding, Stomping, Gliding": Messing with Gender Choreographic Taboos

4. Mothers and Sons: Transforming Gendered Subjectivities

Part II Recognising Resistant Sexualities

5. Performing Disabled Sexuality: Invalidating the Normative Sexual Subject?

6. Beyond "Brokeback Mountain": Women Designing Mixed-Orientation Marriages with Bisexual Men

Part III Validating Racialised Subjectivities

7. Crossing Borders: Older Somali Women’s Experiences of Physical Activity

8. Resisting Assimilation: Migrants and their House-Building Practices

9. Indigenous Subjectivities: Subverting Dominant Representations to Recapture Prisoners’ Intrinsic Worth

Part IV Interrogating Privileged Subjectivities

10. Transforming Privileged Subjectivities: Towards a Pedagogy of the Oppressor

11. Moving from One Place to Another within a Colonizer Positioning

12. Recreating Pacific Masculinities for Gender Equality

Part V Creating New Spaces of Resistance in Everyday Life

13. Resistance and Reconstruction: Older Women Talk about Childhood Sexual Abuse

14. Working-Class Women and Social Justice: Agency or Survival?

15. Recognition and Redistribution as Situated Practices: Reflections on Some Experiences as a Social Work Academic

Author Bio

Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli is Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.

Bob Pease is Chair of Social Work at Deakin University in Geelong, Australia.

Name: The Politics of Recognition and Social Justice: Transforming Subjectivities in the New Millennium (Hardback) – Routledge 
Description: Edited by Bob Pease, Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli. Through a series of case studies of groups challenging social inequalities - based in class, race, culture, nationality, sexuality, religion, age, and disability - this book develops a critical-theoretical account of forms of resistance. It explores how...
Categories: Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, Sexuality - Gender Studies, Theories of Race & Ethnicity, Social Theory