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Gendered Geographies in Puerto Rican Culture
James Madison A Son of Virginia and a Founder of the Nation
Spaces, Sexualities, Solidarities
JEFF BROADWATER
RADOST RANGELOVA
2012 Ragan Old North State Award, North Carolina Literary and Historical Association
This is a critical study of the construction of gendered spaces through feminine labor and capital in Puerto Rican literature and film (1950–2010). It analyzes gendered geographies and forms of emotional labor, and the possibility that they generate within the material and the symbolic spaces of the family house, the factory, the beauty salon, and the brothel. It argues that by challenging traditional images of femininity, texts by authors and film directors like Rosario Ferré, Carmen Lugo Filippi, Magali García Ramis, Mayra Santos-Febres, Sonia Fritz, and Ana María García, among others, contest the official Puerto Rican cultural nationalist discourse on gender and nation, and propose alternatives to its spatial tropes through feminine labor and solidarities. The book’s theoretical framework encompasses recent feminist geographers’ conceptualizations of the relationship between space and gender, patriarchy, knowledge, labor, and the everyday. It engages with the work of Gillian Rose, Rosemary Hennessy, Doreen Massey, Patricia Hill Collins, and Katherine McKittrick to argue that spaces are instrumental in resisting intersecting oppressions, in subverting traditional national models, and in constructing alternative imaginaries. By introducing Caribbean cultural production and Latin American thought to the concerns of feminist and cultural geographers, it recasts our understanding of Puerto Rico as a neocolonial space that urges a rethinking of gender in relation to the nation.
The essential Madison James Madison is remembered primarily as a systematic political theorist, but this bookish and unassuming man was also a practical politician who strove for balance in an age of revolution. In this biography, Jeff Broadwater focuses on Madison’s role in the battle for religious freedom in Virginia, his contributions to the adoption of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, his place in the evolution of the party system, his relationship with Dolley Madison, his performance as a wartime commander in chief, and his views on slavery. From Broadwater’s perspective, no single figure can tell us more about the origins of the American republic than our fourth president. Jeff Broadwater is professor of history at Barton College and author of George Mason, Forgotten Founder. “Deal[s] with the whole man and with the complete story of [Madison’s] life insofar as the biographer can limn it. . . . Restore[s] Madison’s humanity.” —The Wall Street Journal “[Broadwater’s] biography is very solid and scholarly. . . . The best medium-sized life of Madison that we have.” — Gordon S. Wood, The New York Review of Books February 2016 978-1-4696-2831-8 $30.00s Paper 978-0-8078-6991-8 $29.99 BOOK
Radost Rangelova is associate professor of Spanish at Gettysburg College.
288 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 10 halftones, notes, bibl., index
North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
February 2016 978-1-4696-2616-1 $65.00s Paper Approx. 224 pp., 6 x 9
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