Politics of the Possible

Essays on Gender, History, Narratives, Colonial English

By (author) Kumkum Sangari

Publication date:

01 January 2002

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

234x155mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781843310518

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

This collection of essays covers a broad range of disciplines to produce a work that rethinks relationships and divisions in gender, geography, class relations, culture and much more to create a true 'politics of the possible'.

Preface; Between the lines: an introduction; Politics of the Possible: or the perils of reclassification; Of ladies, gentlemen, and the 'short-cut': or choosing unfreedom; 'Not knowing, but only guessing': a modernist resolution; Figures for the 'unconscious': the pressures of description; Relating histories; Women against women; The 'amenities of domestic life'; Consent, agency, and rhetorics of incitement; Notes; Index