Deirdre Keenan
Biographic Data
| ID | 664699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deirdre Keenan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deirdre |
| FAMILY NAME | Keenan |
| SIGNATURE | KEENAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carroll University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Vulnerable Bodies
In choosing to teach Yasmina Khadra's novel The Sirens of Baghdad, I had two pedagogical objectives: the first was to question the meaning of the word “terrorism.” I had hoped that in a comparative examination of acts represented in the novel with acts of war, students' learned condemnation of terrorism might prompt reconsideration of the ethics of war. My second objective was to question the inevitability of military responses to global violence…
Marriage and the Homosexual Body
Any analogy between race and homosexuality cannot erase the fact that skin color has marked and continues to mark bodies for special punishment and necessary protection. Yet, the analogy has also been forged in the struggles against sexual discrimination and in the courts to recognize same-sex marriage as a basic civil right. My purposes here are, first, to review the role the race-sexual orientation analogy has played in same-sex marriage debate…
Unrestricted Territory
Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A border is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep edge. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. . . . The prohibited and forbidden are its inhabitants.\n—Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands: The New Mestiza\nOne night, in Louise Erdrich’s novel, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little …
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Unrestricted Territory
Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A border is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep edge. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. . . . The prohibited and forbidden are its inhabitants.\n—Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands: The New Mestiza\nOne night, in Louise Erdrich’s novel, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little …
Marriage and the Homosexual Body
Any analogy between race and homosexuality cannot erase the fact that skin color has marked and continues to mark bodies for special punishment and necessary protection. Yet, the analogy has also been forged in the struggles against sexual discrimination and in the courts to recognize same-sex marriage as a basic civil right. My purposes here are, first, to review the role the race-sexual orientation analogy has played in same-sex marriage debate…
Vulnerable Bodies
In choosing to teach Yasmina Khadra's novel The Sirens of Baghdad, I had two pedagogical objectives: the first was to question the meaning of the word “terrorism.” I had hoped that in a comparative examination of acts represented in the novel with acts of war, students' learned condemnation of terrorism might prompt reconsideration of the ethics of war. My second objective was to question the inevitability of military responses to global violence…
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