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Rela Mazali - Maps of Women's Goings and Stayings - 9780804732925 - V9780804732925
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Maps of Women's Goings and Stayings

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Description for Maps of Women's Goings and Stayings Hardback. This volume offers a new kind of reading and thinking experience as it tells the life and travel stories of fascinating women and examines women's physical mobility in a culture of gendered, postcolonial space that restricts their movement. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 400 pages, 9 maps. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 665.

This book writes itself off the guide map of familiar literary forms and melts down conceptual barriers, offering a new kind of reading and thinking experience as it tells the life and travel stories of fascinating women and examines women’s physical mobility in a culture of gendered, postcolonial space that restricts their movement. Straddling the divide between fiction and scholarship, it combines fictional narrative, contemplation, theoretical thinking, scholarly discussion, and interviews. The book examines and crosses boundaries on various ontological levels—between genders, languages, historical epochs, and literary genres—as it questions reality, identity, knowledge, culture, truth, and mind.

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The book imagines a movement-nurturing space that subverts the confining construct of home. From this nonexistent yet tangibly welcoming home space, the “glass corridors” of home—analogous to the “glass ceiling” of professional life—can be brought into full view and denaturalized. This cannot be accomplished, however, without a compelling, painful look at the patriarchal, colonial, and militarized structures underpinning all Western travel, women’s emancipatory journeys included—a look influenced by the still-colonial structure of the author’s Israeli placement.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804732925
SKU
V9780804732925
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About Rela Mazali
Rela Mazali is an Israeli writer of essays and fiction in both Hebrew and English.

Reviews for Maps of Women's Goings and Stayings
"This is a spectacular volume, breaking new ground in the construction of form as well as in feminist storytelling and analysis. Based on interviews, research, and fictionalization, it is neither journalism, nor scholarly tract, nor fiction, but a combination of all three that is something larger still. . . . This book is a work of art."—Ellen G. Friedman, The ... Read more

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