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Miss_Strawberry Donating Member (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-21-07 03:04 PM
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Dr Jacqui Alexander
is speaking at Rutgers. Anybody familiar with her?
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-21-07 03:53 PM
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1. No, can you provide more on who she is and her contributions
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Miss_Strawberry Donating Member (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-21-07 04:24 PM
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2. No....
that's what I was hoping you could do. She's coming to give a lecture based on her new book "Pedagogies
of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the
Sacred" and I wanted to know more about her from a personal standpoint.
She's a prof. of Women's Studies in Toronto and they are hailing her as "renowned"...wanted to know if it was worth my time or not
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-21-07 05:48 PM
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3. Well, keep us posted, if she is a professor at the University of Toronto
...that has to carry some weight. Are there any peer reviews on her work, I wonder? The book review seems pretty positive:

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Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred (Perverse Modernities) (Paperback)
by M. Jacqui Alexander (Author)
Key Phrases: heterosexual capital, white gay tourism, ideological traffic, United States, Third World, New York (more...)
(1 customer review)




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Paperback: 376 pages
Publisher: Duke University Press (December 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0822336456
ISBN-13: 978-0822336457
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: based on 1 review. (Write a review.)
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #218,686 in Books (See Top Sellers in Books)
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Also Available in: Hardcover | All Editions

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

A Truly Revolutionary Book, February 26, 2006
Reviewer: chantdown "angel of history" (East Lansing, MI USA) - See all my reviews
Not since the early 1980s has there been a book that literally takes one's breath away. Prof. Alexander's new volume is profoundly spiritual at the same time it's grounded in a unique materialist feminism. Its signifiance also lies in the book's manifestations of a real hope. Being alive and politically conscious in the first decade of the 21st century is to be easily seduced by despair, it is also to be absolutely at odds with terrible, counter revolutionary, antifeminist cultures. Not for Alexander glib, soggy liberalism but a spirit that is courageous and awe-inspiring. In the book's third section, Alexander writes of 'returning' to the magnificent anthology, 'This Bridge Called My Back' and, following this essay, the book's most thrilling chapter, in which the writer conjures a new life force, one thoroughly rooted in both spiritual and secular lifeworlds. As if this adjectival 'heap' of praise were not enough, Alexander's book render obsolete the common periodization of feminisms by 'wave'. It would not be innacurate to say that 'Pedagogies of Crossing' is a epistemic rupture, demanding its readers to again grapple with feminist legacies from an entirely new standpoint. If you've not heard Prof. Alexander speak, I suggest you do so as soon as possible. The impact of her spoken word 'appearances' powerful. Her lectures constitute an epistemological rupture, filling one with true hope.
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http://www.amazon.com/Pedagogies-Crossing-Meditations-Feminism-Modernities/dp/0822336456

Hummm, "Her lectures constitute an epistemological rupture, filling one with true hope.

Ruture or rapture? :shrug:

Is the work that heavy? :spray:
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