Laura Chernaik
Biographic Data
| ID | 1432167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Chernaik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Chernaik |
| SIGNATURE | CHERNAIK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Pat Cadigan's Synners
This article analyses an anti-essentialist SF novel, focusing on the extent to which anti-foundationalism enables a more accurate as well as a more productive representation of postmodernity. My argument stresses the ways in which Pat Cadigan's novel Synners, mostly because of its remarkable narrative form, challenges some of the most dangerous norms and normativity of American thought and culture. I argue, that, in order to understand this compl…
Spatial Displacements
This paper looks at connections between transnationalism and the new social movements in the USA. Drawing on feminist and 'queer theory' critiques of totalising 'lesbian-feminist' and 'radical feminist' arguments, as well as on the neo-Marxist analyses of transnationalism, I argue that it is possible to theorise transnational 'flexible accumulation' in terms of gender, race and sexuality as well as class. I analyse David Harvey's argument about t…
Fantasies of difference
(1995). Fantasies of difference: The representation of sexuality, sexual difference and ethnicity in Gael Baudino's Gossamer Axe. Renaissance and Modern Studies: Vol. 38, Minorities and Minority Discourse, pp. 126-147
Spatial Displacements
This paper looks at connections between transnationalism and the new social movements in the USA. Drawing on feminist and 'queer theory' critiques of totalising 'lesbian-feminist' and 'radical feminist' arguments, as well as on the neo-Marxist analyses of transnationalism, I argue that it is possible to theorise transnational 'flexible accumulation' in terms of gender, race and sexuality as well as class. I analyse David Harvey's argument about t…
Fantasies of difference
(1995). Fantasies of difference: The representation of sexuality, sexual difference and ethnicity in Gael Baudino's Gossamer Axe. Renaissance and Modern Studies: Vol. 38, Minorities and Minority Discourse, pp. 126-147
Spatial Displacements
This paper looks at connections between transnationalism and the new social movements in the USA. Drawing on feminist and 'queer theory' critiques of totalising 'lesbian-feminist' and 'radical feminist' arguments, as well as on the neo-Marxist analyses of transnationalism, I argue that it is possible to theorise transnational 'flexible accumulation' in terms of gender, race and sexuality as well as class. I analyse David Harvey's argument about t…
Pat Cadigan's Synners
This article analyses an anti-essentialist SF novel, focusing on the extent to which anti-foundationalism enables a more accurate as well as a more productive representation of postmodernity. My argument stresses the ways in which Pat Cadigan's novel Synners, mostly because of its remarkable narrative form, challenges some of the most dangerous norms and normativity of American thought and culture. I argue, that, in order to understand this compl…
Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Human sexuality (2 works) · Law (2 works)