Ana Quiring
Biographic Data
| ID | 2274638 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ana Quiring |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ana |
| FAMILY NAME | Quiring |
| SIGNATURE | QUIRING A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fingerprints of British Book History
In this essay, I give a labor history of the commonly used database Early English Books Online. EEBO began its life as a mirofilm archive produced beginning in 1940: a massive book-copying project was undertaken during World War II to protect rare books from German bombs. These reproductions were made largely by unnamed woman archivists and led by a team of woman photographers, academics, and secretaries. In this essay, I draw on existing theorie…
Behind the veil of the zenana
This essay argues that second wave feminist accounts of the trapped housewife type, who must remain inside the house, consumed with domestic drudgery, derive from a colonial precedent. Many second wave writers relied on Orientalist metaphors and anecdotes in order to dramatize their theses of global patriarchal oppression. My essay reframes this bibliography by centering the neglected work of modernist-era Indian writer and activist Cornelia Sora…
Going with the Gut
I argue that several Black feminists theorize fatness as a marginalized form of embodiment that should be reclaimed as a source of pleasure and abundance. Tracing the history of anti-fat bias back to its roots as a vehicle of racialized bodily control, we learn that the fat Black body has always served as a threat to white colonial power. Turning to Black feminist texts, from the writing of Audre Lorde and bell hooks to Zadie Smith's 2005 novel O…
Going with the Gut
I argue that several Black feminists theorize fatness as a marginalized form of embodiment that should be reclaimed as a source of pleasure and abundance. Tracing the history of anti-fat bias back to its roots as a vehicle of racialized bodily control, we learn that the fat Black body has always served as a threat to white colonial power. Turning to Black feminist texts, from the writing of Audre Lorde and bell hooks to Zadie Smith's 2005 novel O…
Behind the veil of the zenana
This essay argues that second wave feminist accounts of the trapped housewife type, who must remain inside the house, consumed with domestic drudgery, derive from a colonial precedent. Many second wave writers relied on Orientalist metaphors and anecdotes in order to dramatize their theses of global patriarchal oppression. My essay reframes this bibliography by centering the neglected work of modernist-era Indian writer and activist Cornelia Sora…
Going with the Gut
I argue that several Black feminists theorize fatness as a marginalized form of embodiment that should be reclaimed as a source of pleasure and abundance. Tracing the history of anti-fat bias back to its roots as a vehicle of racialized bodily control, we learn that the fat Black body has always served as a threat to white colonial power. Turning to Black feminist texts, from the writing of Audre Lorde and bell hooks to Zadie Smith's 2005 novel O…
Fingerprints of British Book History
In this essay, I give a labor history of the commonly used database Early English Books Online. EEBO began its life as a mirofilm archive produced beginning in 1940: a massive book-copying project was undertaken during World War II to protect rare books from German bombs. These reproductions were made largely by unnamed woman archivists and led by a team of woman photographers, academics, and secretaries. In this essay, I draw on existing theorie…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Ambivalence (1 work) · Beauty (1 work) · Black women (1 work) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work)