Subversion

Abstract: This essay seeks to illuminate a fragment of that larger picture exploring the ways that ESG thinkers in the 1960s and 1970s lent conceptual shape to national security threats as sexual and gendered attacks on an ideally anticommunist Brazil. Initial (i.e. 1950s and early 1960s) ESG preoccupations revolved around international communisms capacity for inciting national disorder a rather general concept often described in terms of territorial political social and even corporeal "disintegration" (desintegracao) "disaggregation" (desagregacao) or "dissolution" (dissolucao). As the years wore on however fresh and more specific concerns complicated and elaborated the ordem-obsessed paranoias of the ESGs first decade. Internal enemies began to dominate ESG anxieties and terms like "subversion" (subversao) and "revolutionary warfare" (guerra revolucionaria an official ESG schematic for covert communist-inspired physical and psychological warfare) became constants in an increasingly alarmist discourse. These ever-invoked specters gradually gained conceptual substance and the desintegracao central to earlier discussions took on a crucial sexual - and sexually threatened - component. (excerpt)

Abstract: This English-language study examines the multiple works by the Chilean writer Diamela Eltit. Written in clear critical discourse, these essays are a practical tool for first-time or hesitant Eltit readers who seek discussion of a particualr book and are not familiar with the author's entire production. This study will be beneficial for scholars interested in Latin American narrative, Latin American women's writing, Latin American feminism, feminism in general, comparative literature, women's studies, and culture studies.

Abstract: This exciting collection offers a range of perspectives from some of the most prominent feminist voices of our time, including Rosi Braidotti, Judith Butler, Claire Colebrook, Elizabeth Grosz, and Jack Halberstam. Employing experimental modes of thinking and writing, the contributors remain faithful to the feminist tradition of subversion and resistance, while refusing to submit to its political tradition of a loving sisterhood or dutiful daughterhood. Through productive disagreement and cognitive dissonance, the essays presented here reflect the specific circumstances of our present, and attempt to dream and envision possible alternatives for the future. The volume thus invites us to think of the becoming of feminism itself, and the possibilities of future feminisms-to-come.