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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.
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Publisher
Duke University Press BooksYear
2018Print ISBN
9781478000815, 9781478000600eBook ISBN
9781478002277Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Seafaring, Sovereignty, and the Self: Of Patriarchy and the Conditions of Modernity
- 2. Producing Personhood: The Rise of Capitalism and the Western Subject
- Interlude 1. How Did We Get Here? Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here
- 3. In the Ether: Neoliberalism and Entrepreneurial Woman
- 4. Simulacra Child: Hypermedia and the Mediated Subject
- 5. Sticks Broken at the River: The Security State and the Violence of Manhood
- Interlude 2: Returning to the Witches
- 6. Unmaking the Territory and Remapping the Landscape
- 7. The Utterance of My Name: Invitation and the Disorder of Desire
- 8. The Vicar of Liberation
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index