American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender

by Robyn Wiegman

Book Overview

In this brilliantly combative study, Robyn Wiegman challenges contemporary clichés about race and gender, a formulation that is itself a cliché in need of questioning. As part of what she calls her "feminist disloyalty," she turns a critical, even skeptical, eye on current debates about multiculturalism and "difference" while simultaneously exposing the many ways in which white racial supremacy has been reconfigured since the institutional demise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822315912
• ISBN13: 9780822315919
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"