A Moment or a Movement? The Pandemic, Political Upheaval, and Racial Reckoning
In: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Band 47, Heft 1, S. 11-14
ISSN: 1545-6943
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In: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Band 47, Heft 1, S. 11-14
ISSN: 1545-6943
In: Differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 31-45
ISSN: 1527-1986
In: The women's review of books, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 23
In: The women's review of books, Band 10, Heft 8, S. 28
In: A differences book
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Feminism's Critical Edge -- Part I. Over the Edge -- The Impossibility of Women's Studies -- Feminism, Institutionalism, and the Idiom of Failure -- Part II. Edged OUT -- Teaching and Research in Unavailable Intersections -- Feminism, Democracy, and Empire: Islam and the War of Terror -- Transfeminism and the Future of Gender -- Part III. Edging IN -- Discipline and Vanish: Feminism, the Resistance to Theory, and the Politics of Cultural Studies -- Whither Black Women's Studies: Interview -- Success and Its Failures -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index
For decades, the field of bioethics has shaped the way we think about ethical problems in science, technology, and medicine. But its traditional emphasis on individual interests such as doctor-patient relationships, informed consent, and personal autonomy is minimally helpful in confronting the social and political challenges posed by new human biotechnologies such as assisted reproduction, human genetic modification, and DNA forensics. Beyond Bioethics addresses these provocative issues from an emerging standpoint that is attentive to race, gender, class, disability, privacy, and notions of democracy—a ";new biopolitics."; This authoritative volume provides an overview for those grappling with the profound dilemmas posed by these developments. It brings together the work of cutting-edge thinkers from diverse fields of study and public engagement, all of them committed to this new perspective grounded in social justice and public interest values