Vexy Thing
On Gender and Liberation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4157927 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lerhonda S Manigault-Bryant (0000-0001-9093-9115, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 450-450 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaaa187 |
| OpenAlex | W3088157488 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
Vexy Thing takes readers on a journey into the idea and history of patriarchy. Drawing from an impressive array of sources in literature (Joseph Conrad and Oscar Wilde), poetry (Nayyirah Waheed, June Jordan, Ada Limón), twentieth-century film (Norma Rae, 1979), black feminism (the Combahee River Collective, Toni Morrison, Wangechi Mutu), rhythm and blues/soul music (Nina Simone, Deborah Cox), and even histories of witches, Imani Perry weaves the intricacies of patriarchy's deep, overlapping, and at times difficult-to-decipher web. Through a narrative held together by two interludes, we learn about the problem neoliberalism poses for feminist thought (chapter 3); how notions of territory, landscape, and desire have collectively moved us toward (and at times against) liberation (chapters 6, 7, and 8); how ideations of sovereignty, the self, and personhood gave way to the nonperson as opposite of the patriarch (chapters 1 and 2); and about the pervasive impact of the security state and hypermedia in the digital age upon gender formations, conceptions of manhood, and mediated black bodies (chapters 4 and 5). As these not-so-archaic vestiges have effectively made their way into modernity, Perry reveals how the categories of woman and man become signifiers that do very particular disciplining work. From lessons regarding which bodies count, which terrains get remapped, and which histories are never complemented by equally salient herstories, we are viscerally reminded who are (and are not) the beneficiaries of patriarchy
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Blues · Feminism · Literature · Modernity · Narrative · Patriarchy · Personhood · Poetry · Sociology · State (computer science · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |