{"product_id":"wayward-reproductions-genealogies-of-race-and-nation-in-transatlantic-modern-thought-paperback-softback-9780822333159","title":"Wayward Reproductions; Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought (Paperback \/ softback) 9780822333159","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWayward Reproductions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGenealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlys Eve Weinbaum (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822333159\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 23 June 2004\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 3 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 14.6 x 2.2 cm, 0.522 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“Alys Eve Weinbaum offers an array of transformative reassessments of major canonical texts of literature, social theory, and science, marking the heretofore unrecognized centrality of what she calls the ‘race\/reproduction bind’ to these texts. \u003ci\u003eWayward Reproductions\u003c\/i\u003e is an important book with substantial political as well as scholarly implications.”-Miranda Joseph, author of \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Romance of Community\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“I cannot imagine a more ambitious or important project. \u003ci\u003eWayward Reproductions\u003c\/i\u003e provides new and exciting readings and interpretations of some of the foundational texts of modern intellectual thought. Alys Eve Weinbaum theorizes reproduction as a concept that weaves race and sex together and in so doing constructs or resists nationalism.”-Gail Bederman, author of \u003ci\u003eManliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880–1917\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“What is very brilliant about this book is the way it opens readers’ eyes to specific ways of seeing the work of racialization and its distinctive role in ideas of nationalism not only within a number of classic texts but also in the critical traditions built up around them. The object lesson here is a very politically powerful one.”-Sarah Franklin, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eRelative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies\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\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eWayward Reproductions\u003c\/i\u003e breaks apart and transfigures prevailing understandings of the interconnection among ideologies of racism, nationalism, and imperialism. Alys Eve Weinbaum demonstrates how these ideologies were founded in large part on what she calls “the race\/reproduction bind”––the notion that race is something that is biologically reproduced. In revealing the centrality of ideas about women’s reproductive capacity to modernity’s intellectual foundations, Weinbaum highlights the role that these ideas have played in naturalizing oppression. She argues that attention to how the race\/reproduction bind is perpetuated across national and disciplinary boundaries is a necessary part of efforts to combat racism.\u003cp\u003eGracefully traversing a wide range of discourses––including literature, evolutionary theory, early anthropology, Marxism, feminism, and psychoanalysis––Weinbaum traces a genealogy of the race\/reproduction bind within key intellectual formations of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She examines two major theorists of genealogical thinking-Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault-and unearths the unacknowledged ways their formulations link race and reproduction. She explores notions of kinship and the replication of racial difference that run through Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s work; Marxist thinking based on Friedrich Engel’s\u003ci\u003e The Origin of the Family; \u003c\/i\u003eCharles Darwin’s theory of sexual selection; and Sigmund Freud’s early studies on hysteria. She also describes W. E. B. Du Bois’s efforts to transcend ideas about the reproduction of race that underwrite citizenship and belonging within the United States. In a coda, Weinbaum brings the foregoing analysis to bear on recent genomic and biotechnological innovations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Geneaology Unbound: Reproduction and Contestation of the Racial Nation 15\u003cbr\u003e 2. Writing Feminist Geneaology: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Reproduction of Racial Nationalism 61\u003cbr\u003e 3. Engels’\u003cbr\u003es Originary Ruse: Race and Reproduction in the Story of Capital 106\u003cbr\u003e 4. Sexual Selection and the Birth of Psychoanalysis: Darwin, Freud, and the Universalization of Wayward Reproduction 145\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Sexual Politics of Black Internationalism: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Reproduction of Racial Globality 187\u003cbr\u003e Coda: Gene\/alogies for a New Millennium 227\u003cbr\u003e Notes 247\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 307\u003cbr\u003e Index 339\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52715075731736,"sku":"9780822333159","price":24.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/wayward-reproductions-genealogies-of-race-and-nation-in-transatlantic-modern-thought-paperback-softback-9780822333159","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}