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Intimacy Across Borders
Jane Juffer
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Description for Intimacy Across Borders
Hardback. How migration - especially by Latinos - can create new forms of intimacy across cultural, religious, and ethnic lines Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFC; JFFN; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 458. Weight in Grams: 363.
Examining how encounters produced by migration lead to intimacies, ranging from sexual, spiritual, and neighbourly to hateful and violent, Jane Juffer considers the significant changes that have occurred in small towns following an influx of Latinos to the Midwest. Intimacy across Borders situates the story of the Dutch Reformed Church in Iowa and South Africa within a larger analysis of race, religion, and globalization. Drawing on personal narrative, ethnography, and socio-political critique, Juffer shows how migration to rural areas can disrupt even the most thoroughly entrenched religious beliefs and transform the schools, churches, and businesses that form the heart of ... Read more
Examining how encounters produced by migration lead to intimacies, ranging from sexual, spiritual, and neighbourly to hateful and violent, Jane Juffer considers the significant changes that have occurred in small towns following an influx of Latinos to the Midwest. Intimacy across Borders situates the story of the Dutch Reformed Church in Iowa and South Africa within a larger analysis of race, religion, and globalization. Drawing on personal narrative, ethnography, and socio-political critique, Juffer shows how migration to rural areas can disrupt even the most thoroughly entrenched religious beliefs and transform the schools, churches, and businesses that form the heart of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781439910528
SKU
V9781439910528
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About Jane Juffer
Jane Juffer is Associate Professor of English and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of At Home with Pornography: Women, Sex, and Everyday Life and Single Mother: The Emergence of the Domestic Intellectual.
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