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- catalog abstract ""In today's global market, ideas about family, femininity, and reproduction are traded on as actively as any currency or stock. The connection has a history, one rooted in a conception of feminine identities invented through a science interwoven with the pursuit of empire, the accumulation of goods, and the furtherance of power. It is this history that Robin Truth Goodman exposes in her analysis of literary and political representations of female infertility from the mid-nineteenth century to our day." "Goodman takes Darwin's studies on sterility between species as her starting point, exploring evolutionary science as the intersection of a colonial worldview based on class struggle and the pathologizing of female identities that fall outside of reproductive normalcy. She then examines how Joseph Conrad constructs a vision of feminism as a product of miscegenation, how Alejo Carpentier and Mario Vargas Llosa deploy female figures of miscegenation to recast Latin American literature as "difference," and how ecological devastation in the Brazilian Amazon is envisioned through failures in Indian marriage. Locating points of conjunction between queer, feminist, and postcolonial theories, Infertilities points to the role of lesbian representation and reproductive politics in ongoing critiques of globalism."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11964817.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Goodman takes Darwin's studies on sterility between species as her starting point, exploring evolutionary science as the intersection of a colonial worldview based on class struggle and the pathologizing of female identities that fall outside of reproductive normalcy. She then examines how Joseph Conrad constructs a vision of feminism as a product of miscegenation, how Alejo Carpentier and Mario Vargas Llosa deploy female figures of miscegenation to recast Latin American literature as "difference," and how ecological devastation in the Brazilian Amazon is envisioned through failures in Indian marriage.".
- catalog description ""In today's global market, ideas about family, femininity, and reproduction are traded on as actively as any currency or stock. The connection has a history, one rooted in a conception of feminine identities invented through a science interwoven with the pursuit of empire, the accumulation of goods, and the furtherance of power. It is this history that Robin Truth Goodman exposes in her analysis of literary and political representations of female infertility from the mid-nineteenth century to our day."".
- catalog description "Darwin's dating game -- Conrad's closet -- Carpentier's marvelous conception -- Mario Vargas Llosa and the rape of Sebastiana -- The rainforest rape.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-227) and index.".
- catalog description "Locating points of conjunction between queer, feminist, and postcolonial theories, Infertilities points to the role of lesbian representation and reproductive politics in ongoing critiques of globalism."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xxiv, 234 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0816634874 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0816634882 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 4".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,".
- catalog subject "863.009/353 21".
- catalog subject "Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Infertility, Female, in literature.".
- catalog subject "PQ7082.F35 G63 2000".
- catalog subject "Spanish American fiction History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Darwin's dating game -- Conrad's closet -- Carpentier's marvelous conception -- Mario Vargas Llosa and the rape of Sebastiana -- The rainforest rape.".
- catalog title "Infertilities : exploring fictions of barren bodies / Robin Truth Goodman.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".