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UNINA9910791125303321 |
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Titolo |
Queer theory : law, culture, empire / / edited by Robert Leckey and Kim Brooks |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
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1-135-14788-4 |
1-135-14789-2 |
1-282-63972-2 |
9786612639722 |
0-203-85611-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (236 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Homosexuality - Law and legislation |
Gay culture |
Queer theory |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Table of cases; Table of statutes; Table of statutory instruments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Pat 1 Constitution; Chapter 2 Queer theory, neoliberalism and urban governance; Chapter 3 De-radicalising the rights claims of sexual subalterns through 'tolerance'; Part 2 Representation; Chapter 4 Bollywood cinema and queer sexualities; Chapter 5 Post-apartheid fraternity, post-apartheid democracy, post-apartheid sexuality: Queer reflections on Jane Alexander's Butcher Boys; Chapter 6 The judicial virtue of sexuality |
Part 3 RegulationChapter 7 Reproductive outsiders - the perils and disruptive potential of reproductive coalitions; Chapter 8 Queer-religious potentials in US same-sex marriage debates; Chapter 9 What's queer about polygamy?; Part 4 Exclusion; Chapter 10 An 'imperial' strategy?: The use of comparative and international law in arguments about LGBT rights; Chapter 11 Reproducing empire in same-sex relationship recognition and immigration law reform; Chapter 12 |
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Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire uses queer theory to examine the complex interactions of law, culture, and empire. Building on recent work on empire, and taking contextual, socio-legal, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches, it studies how activists and scholars engaged in queer theory projects can unwittingly advance imperial projects and how queer theory can itself show imperial ambitions. The authors - from five continents - delve into examples drawn from Bollywood cinema to California's 2008 marriage referendum. The chapters view a wide range of texts - from cultural |
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UNINA9910496139603321 |
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Autore |
Schroeder Richard A. |
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Shady practices : agroforestry and gender politics in the Gambia / / Richard A. Schroeder |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1999] |
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©1999 |
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1-282-35504-X |
9786612355042 |
0-520-92447-9 |
0-585-28895-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (213 p.) |
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California Studies in Critical Human Geography ; ; 5 |
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Mandingo (African people) - Agriculture |
Women, Mandingo - Economic conditions |
Alkalikunda (Gambia) Social life and customs |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Rise of a Female Cash Crop: A Market Garden |
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Boom for Mandinka Women -- 3. Gone to Their Second Husbands: Domestic Politics and the Garden Boom -- 4. Better Homes and Gardens: The Social Relations of Vegetable Production -- 5. Branching into Old Territory: The Gender Politics of Mandinka Garden / Orchards -- 6. Contesting Agroforestry Interventions -- 7. Shady Practices -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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Shady Practices is a revealing analysis of the gendered political ecology brought about by conflicting local interests and changing developmental initiatives in a West African village. Between 1975 and 1985, while much of Africa suffered devastating drought conditions, Gambian women farmers succeeded in establishing hundreds of lucrative communal market gardens. In less than a decade, the women's incomes began outstripping their husbands' in many areas, until a shift in development policy away from gender equity and toward environmental concerns threatened to do away with the social and economic gains of the garden boom. Male landholders joined forestry personnel in attempts to displace the gardens and capture women's labor for the irrigation of male-controlled tree crops.This carefully documented microhistory draws on field experience spanning more than two decades and the insights of disciplines ranging from critical human geography to development studies. Schroeder combines the "success story" of the market gardens with a cautionary tale about the aggressive pursuit of natural resource management objectives, however well intentioned. He shows that questions of power and social justice at the community level need to enter the debates of policymakers and specialists in environment and development planning. |
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