Object Lessons (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)

Challenging, engaging, and totally necessary, Wiegman's Object Lessons will make you rethink the role of social justice as an animating force in a range of identity-related fields. At the same time, you will be challenged to rethink your own relationship to those disciplinary formations and the debates they have instantiated. Object Lessons gives readers the same type of scholarship we have come to expect from Wiegman's prior work (e.g. American Anatomies), in that it moves through the intellectual argument while also tracking its crystallization in academic disciplinarity, leaving no disciplinary / epistemological stone unturned. This is remarkable given the number of fields she brings into critical view: American Studies, Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Queer Studies. All scholars working in the critical humanities will benefit from Wiegman's unusually keen eye for disciplinary critique, the impressive depth and breath of archive, and the brilliance of her argumentation and writing.

This book offers a complex discussion of the study of race, gender, and sexuality as it has developed in the U.S. since the 1960's. But instead of defending these intellectual projects against the conservative backlash that has threatened them, Wiegman explores what she calls their "political desire" from within the theoretical traditions they have created. A powerful, challenging, and rewarding read!

The Kindle version of this text does not include real page numbers. As a scholarly text this is particularly problematic, making it near impossible to use for academic work requiring direct source citations. Even when highlighting and creating notes within the text readers are denied the ability to translate Loc #'s to page numbers. Considering the price (in comparison to the softcover) and the lack of real page numbers there is no reason a single person would purchase the Kindle version. Incredibly disappointing.

The book has no page numbers. Unless you are buying this book for pure pleasure (I doubt it), it is worthless. I bought this kindle version mindlessly and now I'll have to buy a hard copy. Amazon fails to provide what seems to me as a basic requirement of any academic publication.

Two words Robyn Wiegman...a tour de force.

alles super und in Ordnung! bin sehr zufrieden mit meiner Bestellung und The World of Books war sehr freundlich und hilfsbereit :)