{"product_id":"living-west-as-feminists-conversations-about-the-where-of-us-paperback-softback-9781496229533","title":"Living West As Feminists; Conversations About the Where of Us (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496229533","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLiving West As Feminists\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eConversations About the Where of Us\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKrista Comer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496229533\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e316 pages, 18 photographs, 2 illustrations, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.484 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"An introspective memoir full of love and meditation.\"-\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"The power of this collection of wide-ranging conversations is in the storytelling. These women's responses reflect disparate walks of life, disparate ethnic and family her-stories. Yet the places that carry the most emotional freight with them all lie within a West we recognize and that calls to us.\"-Susan Cummins Miller, \u003ci\u003eRoundup Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“This book is an innovative and forward-thinking project that pushes us to reimagine what a committed feminist book on the American West might look like in our current moment. It includes lively and informative interviews that emerged from insightful questions.”-Susan Kollin, author of \u003ci\u003eCaptivating Westerns: The Middle East in the American West\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLiving West as Feminists\u003c\/i\u003e is a book filled with illumination, inspiration, and intimacy. Each of Krista Comer’s in situ conversations casts a thoughtful and nuanced light on complex subject matter, cumulatively granting access to an enlarged (and still-growing) portrait of seriously engaged academic and personal investigations into the relationships between place, history, identity, and some movements (again both personal and collective) toward forms of restorative justice. A highly recommended text for academics and non-academics alike.”-Elizabeth Rosner, author of \u003ci\u003eThird Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“How many ways can we answer the question, ‘What is the where of here?’ For Comer and her contributors the question takes us to many worlds, many intricate and dense connections, to relations that trouble settler assumptions and open paths toward reparations, toward an ethic that attends to the care of where. This beautiful, intimate set of reflective conversations offers stories of feminist struggle, of gardens, and of hikes and friendships between surfers. It’s a joy to read and a promise that another world is possible.”-Mary Pat Brady, author of \u003ci\u003eScales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eLiving West as Feminists\u003c\/i\u003e Krista Comer leads readers on a road trip through the politics of place, engaging in a series of conversations with scholars, educators, activists, and feminists about the U.S. West, a region that is not only geographically vast but also a contested space and a contested term. As a passenger on this journey, I found myself thinking through Comer’s questions about how we live in specific places-and especially how we pay attention to the ways we live on specific lands. They feel like a challenge as well as an invitation: How can coalitional feminism inform our relations to place? How does rootedness in place call us to be in coalition with others and with land and home? These questions, and the ensuing conversations, will stay with me for a long, long time.”-Lacy M. Johnson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Reckonings: Essays on Justice for the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Krista Comer invited fifteen colleagues into a conversation about feminism and the U.S. West. From her travels over some thirteen thousand miles to places chosen by participants comes a remarkable series of dialogues focusing on questions about the where of us-the places that we love or belong, or don’t belong, and who we are in them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiving West as Feminists\u003c\/i\u003e moves from travelogue to interviews to critical meditations. It asks who one’s people are, to whom one feels accountable, and how we might make peace with the itinerant, often displaced lives of late-stage capitalist culture. Ultimately, the book understands feminism not as a specific politics or set of theories but as a network of relations. Its coalitional perspective allows for coming together even while distinguishing feminists who write from Black, Indigenous, queer, Chicanx, and materialist perspectives. Feminist rest areas, in which relational securities find footing, can create the most priceless resource in desperate times: well-being and political hope.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e The Invitation\u003cbr\u003e Feminist Road-Tripping and Other Introductions\u003cbr\u003e The Blog Launches Us\u003cbr\u003e Part 1: Summer 2021\u003cbr\u003e The Relations Holding Us, with Priscilla Solis Ybarra\u003cbr\u003e Querencia across Generations, with Elena Valdez\u003cbr\u003e Remaking the Heart of AztlÁ\u003cbr\u003en, with Melina VizcaÍ\u003cbr\u003eno-AlemÁ\u003cbr\u003en\u003cbr\u003e Feminist Homing and Unhoming, with Amy Hamilton\u003cbr\u003e Road Finds: On Keeping Company\u003cbr\u003e Outside the Picture Window in Pueblo, with Krista Comer\u003cbr\u003e Deciding to Remember the Many Strands of Home, with Linda Karell\u003cbr\u003e Lunch, with Clark Whitehorn\u003cbr\u003e For Me, the West Is Rural, with Randi Tanglen\u003cbr\u003e Road Finds: What Lingers in the Air\u003cbr\u003e Finding Community through Transcription, with Zainab Abdali (Guest Post)\u003cbr\u003e A Rendezvous, with Melody Graulich\u003cbr\u003e A Fighting Zapotec Feminism, with Lourdes “\u003cbr\u003eLulu”\u003cbr\u003e Alberto\u003cbr\u003e Colville Women, Always in Charge, with Dina Gilio-Whitaker\u003cbr\u003e Road Finds: Slowing Down for Home\u003cbr\u003e Retracing the Western Black Family in Whitehouse, Texas, with Kalenda Eaton\u003cbr\u003e Part 2: Summer 2022\u003cbr\u003e Launching in the Time of Family, with Krista Comer\u003cbr\u003e The Archives of Gardens, with Audrey Goodman\u003cbr\u003e The Both\/And, with Susan Bernardin\u003cbr\u003e Road Finds: Falling Rocks\u003cbr\u003e Returning to Pueblo as Myself, with Krista Comer\u003cbr\u003e Road Finds: El Pueblo Museum\u003cbr\u003e True Confessions of a Settler Scholar, with Victoria Lamont\u003cbr\u003e Reconciling Feminism, with Margaret Jacobs\u003cbr\u003e Road Finds: Coming Full Circle\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Relational Work Ahead\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Interview Protocol\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599915315480,"sku":"9781496229533","price":18.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/living-west-as-feminists-conversations-about-the-where-of-us-paperback-softback-9781496229533","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}