Critical Perspectives on bell hooks

Herausgeber: Davidson, Maria Del Guadalupe; Yancy, George

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines Bell Hooks' works across various disciplinary divides, including her critique on educational theory and practice, theorization of racial construction, dynamics of gender, and spirituality and love as correctives in postmodern life. This book offers a fresh perspective for scholars wanting to engage in the prominent work of Bell Hooks.

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In Critical Perspectives on bell hooks, contributors in the field of education, philosophy, and social work offer critical reflections on bell hooks' work where she has been most influential. This is a must-read for scholars, professors, and students interested in issues of race, class and gender.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780415989800
• ISBN-10: 0415989809
• Artikelnr.: 26368938

Autorenporträt

Maria Del Guadalupe Davidson is Assistant Professor of African and African-American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. George Yancy teaches in the Philosophy Department at Duquesne University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Maria del Guadalupe Davidson and George Yancy
Part One: Critical Pedagogy and Praxis
1. Borderlines: bell hooks and the Pedagogy of Revolutionary Change,
Nathalia E. Jaramillo and Peter McLaren
2. Engaging Whiteness and the Practice Freedom: The Creation Of Subversive
Academic Spaces, George Yancy
3. Teaching to Transgress: Deconstructing Normalcy and Re-signifying the
Marked Body, Cindy LaCom and Susan Hadley
4. Bell hooks, White Supremacy, and the Academy, Tim Davidson and Jeanette
R. Davidson
5. Engaging bell hooks: How Teacher Educators Can Work to Sustain
Themselves and Their Work, Gretchen Givens Generett
6. Bell hooks' Children's Literature: Writing to Transform the World at its
Root, Carme Manuel
Part Two: The Dynamics of Race and Gender
7. Talking Back: bell hooks, Feminism, and Philosophy, Donna-Dale L.
Marcano
8. Bell hooks and the Move from Marginalized Other to Radical Black
Subject, Maria del Guadalupe Davidson
9. The Ethics of Blackness: bell hooks' Postmodern Blackness and the
Imperative of Liberation, Clevis Headley
10. The Specter of Race: bell hooks, Deconstruction, and Revolutionary
Blackness, Arnold Farr
Part Three: Spirituality and Love
11. Love Matters: bell hooks on Political Resistance and Change, Kathy
Glass
12. Love, Politics, and Ethics in the Postmodern Feminist Work of bell
hooks and Julia Kristeva, Marilyn Edelstein
13. "Revolutionary Interdependence": bell hooks' Ethic of Love as a Basis
for a Feminist Liberation Theology of the Neighbor, Nancy E. Nienhuis
14. Towards a Love Ethic: Love and Spirituality in bell hooks' Writing,
Susana Vega-González