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In this exciting and insightful new work, Zillah Eisenstein weighs up the new anti-imperial possibilities created by the 2008 election of Barack Obama. Eisenstein likens the end of the Bush/Cheney presidency to the fall of Stalin, or Pinochet. Continuing her relentless anti-racist feminist narrative to uncover the new shiftings and changes surrounding the meanings and practices of race, gender, and class, she asks whether this is a key historical moment that will alter race and gender in newly unknown ways. Tracing the social and political presence of Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin and Barack Obama, "The Audacity of Race and Gender" presents 25 conceptual 'frames' of fast-paced critical analysis placing the US presidential election in the context of: the global economic crisis, the new positions of China and India, Islamic feminisms and new secularisms. Illuminated by her distinctive style and personal narrative, Eisenstein challenges her readers to always be looking for the 'newly new' political configurations in order to create a politics of and for the globe.

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• Full title: Audacity of Races and Genders
• Subtitle: A Personal and Global Story of the Obama Election
• Author: Zillah R. Eisenstein
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9781848134201
• ISBN: 1848134207
• ID: 05103126
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 240 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 130 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. October 2009

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