Priya Kandaswamy
Biographic Data
| ID | 658393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Priya Kandaswamy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Priya |
| FAMILY NAME | Kandaswamy |
| SIGNATURE | KANDASWAMY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mills College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dilemmas of Prison Higher Education
Introduction
Neoliberalism, Reproduction, and the Futures of Queer Politics
Dean Spade. Normal Life
Gendering Racial Formation
This chapter examines issues of gender and sexuality within the context of Michael Omi and Howard Winant's theoretical framework. Drawing on the concept of intersectionality alongside racial formation theory, it discusses the unexplored opportunities in Racial Formation in the United States to theorize gender and race as mutually constitutive. It juxtaposes Racial Formation's profound effect on the field of ethnic studies with its relatively obsc…
You trade in a man for the man
The Family Violence Option, an amendment that sought to mitigate the effects that "welfare reform" would have on victims of domestic violence, embodied the quintessential arguments for feminist reform. Accepting the larger transformations within the welfare system as inevitable, mainstream feminist activists chose to link their political claims to both a law and order agenda that emphasized criminalizing individual acts of violence rather than ad…
State Austerity and the Racial Politics of Same-Sex Marriage in the US
This article situates contemporary debates about same-sex marriage in relation to the politics of state austerity, particularly 'welfare reform', in the US. While these two issues are rarely thought about together, looking at claims for marriage rights in the context of cutbacks in social welfare programs and the increasing promotion of 'marriage incentives' as a means of getting low-income single mothers off welfare reveals conservative underton…
You trade in a man for the man
The Family Violence Option, an amendment that sought to mitigate the effects that "welfare reform" would have on victims of domestic violence, embodied the quintessential arguments for feminist reform. Accepting the larger transformations within the welfare system as inevitable, mainstream feminist activists chose to link their political claims to both a law and order agenda that emphasized criminalizing individual acts of violence rather than ad…
State Austerity and the Racial Politics of Same-Sex Marriage in the US
This article situates contemporary debates about same-sex marriage in relation to the politics of state austerity, particularly 'welfare reform', in the US. While these two issues are rarely thought about together, looking at claims for marriage rights in the context of cutbacks in social welfare programs and the increasing promotion of 'marriage incentives' as a means of getting low-income single mothers off welfare reveals conservative underton…
You trade in a man for the man
The Family Violence Option, an amendment that sought to mitigate the effects that "welfare reform" would have on victims of domestic violence, embodied the quintessential arguments for feminist reform. Accepting the larger transformations within the welfare system as inevitable, mainstream feminist activists chose to link their political claims to both a law and order agenda that emphasized criminalizing individual acts of violence rather than ad…
Gendering Racial Formation
This chapter examines issues of gender and sexuality within the context of Michael Omi and Howard Winant's theoretical framework. Drawing on the concept of intersectionality alongside racial formation theory, it discusses the unexplored opportunities in Racial Formation in the United States to theorize gender and race as mutually constitutive. It juxtaposes Racial Formation's profound effect on the field of ethnic studies with its relatively obsc…
Dean Spade. Normal Life
Neoliberalism, Reproduction, and the Futures of Queer Politics
Dilemmas of Prison Higher Education
Introduction
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Welfare (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Economics (2 works)