Since critics first allegedthat feminism claimed tospeak universally for all
women, feminist researchers havebeen acutely aware ofthe limitations of 
genderas a single analyticalcategory. In fact, feministsare perhaps alone in
the academy in theextent to which theyhave embraced intersectionality – the 
relationshipsamong multiple dimensions andmodalities of social relations
and subject formations – as itselfa central category ofanalysis. One could 
evensay that intersectionality isthe most important theoreticalcontribution 
that women’s studies,in conjunction with relatedfields, has made sofar.1

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The Complexity of Intersectionality

The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act

Picking up on Norman Denzin's and Yvonna Lincoln's articulation of the concept of bricolage, the essay describes a critical notion of this research orientation. As an interdisciplinary approach, br...

Describing the Bricolage: Conceptualizing a New Rigor in Qualitative Research

This article argues for a reconceptualization of the intersections of race, gender and class as simultaneous processes of identity, institutional and social practice in order to redress the lack of attention to these intersections in feminist organization studies. Grounding my argument on a brief critique of white liberal feminism from the perspective of women of colour, I examine other feminist frameworks beyond the dominant liberal paradigm and identify their possible contributions to the study of intersections in organization theory and practice. Specifically, I propose theoretical and methodological interventions for researching and practicing more forcefully and intentionally the simultaneity of race, gender and class in organizations, including researching and publicizing the hidden stories at the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, class, nation and sexuality; identifying, untangling and changing the differential impact of everyday practices in organizations and identifying and linking internal organizational processes with external societal processes. I conclude with some reflections on the possible implications of these proposals for each of us, scholars and practitioners of gender and organization.

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Intersections: The Simultaneity of Race, Gender and Class in Organization Studies

Despite recent calls for counseling psychology to embrace social justice-oriented work, there has been little discussion about what such work actually looks like. The first part of this article derives a set of principles from feminist and multicultural counseling theories that counseling psychologists should consider as they engage in social justice work. These include (a) ongoing self-examination,(b) sharing power, (c) giving voice, (d) facilitating consciousness raising, (e) building on strengths, and(f) leaving clients the tools to work toward social change. The second part of the article describes a program designed to integrate social justice work into the core curriculum of the Boston College doctoral program. The authors discuss ways in which the above principles have shaped students; activities, and some of the ethical dilemmas that have emerged. Finally, the article under-scores professional obstacles that counseling psychologists doing social justice work are likely to face, and offers recommen...

Training Counseling Psychologists as Social Justice Agents Feminist and Multicultural Principles in Action

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Locational Feminism3Pt. IFeminism/Multiculturalism15Ch. 1"Beyond" Gender: The New Geography of Identity and the Future of Feminist Criticism17Ch. 2"Beyond" White and Other: Narratives of Race in Feminist Discourse36Ch. 3"Beyond" Difference: Migratory Feminism in the Borderlands67Pt. IIFeminism/Globalism105Ch. 4Geopolitical Literacy: Internationalizing Feminism at "Home" - The Case of Virginia Woolf107Ch. 5Telling Contacts: Intercultural Encounters and Narrative Poetics in the Borderlands between Literary Studies and Anthropology132Ch. 6"Routes/Roots": Boundaries, Borderlands, and Geopolitical Narratives of Identity151Pt. IIIFeminism/Poststructuralism179Ch. 7Negotiating the Transatlantic Divide: Feminism after Poststructuralism181Ch. 8Making History: Reflections on Feminism, Narrative, and Desire199Ch. 9Craving Stories: Narrative and Lyric in Feminist Theory and Poetic Practice228Notes243References281Index303

Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter

Susan Stanford Friedman is Virginia Woolf Professor of english and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-madison. She writes extensively on modernism, including such writers as H.d., Woolf, and Joyce. Her recent books include Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter and Analyzing Freud: Letters of H.D., Bryher, and Their Circle. Currently, she is writing on globalization, migration, and diaspora as well as her book in progress, Planetary Modernism and the Modernities of Empire, Nation, and Diaspora. modernism / modernity volume thirteen, number three, pp 425–443. © 2006 the johns hopkins

Periodizing Modernism: Postcolonial Modernities and the Space/Time Borders of Modernist Studies

What is modernity? What is or was modernism? Why is the energetic, expanding, multidisciplinary field of modernist studies so filled with contestation over the very ground of study? Definitional activities are fictionalizing processes, however much they sound like rational categorization. As such, I will begin with three stories, allegorized but rooted in my own experience in an evolving field.1

Definitional Excursions: The Meanings of Modern/Modernity/Modernism

< T H E B E AT I N G O F Rodney King by four police officers and the violent aftermath of their acquittal in Los Angeles in April of 1992 underlines the explosive status of race and ethnicity in the United States in the 1990s. The videotape of the beatingplayed and replayed on TV screens for months-captures the \"black and white\" of the beating in a double sense. It images metonymically the whiteness of the police and the blackness of Rodney King, the brutality of power and the powerlessness of victimization, and the binary of white/black as it has materialized in the history of European American racism toward African Americans in the United States. But the violent upheaval after the trial-also imprinted repeatedly on the national consciousness by the media-tells other stories, ones that supplement rather than replace the story of white and black in America. These narratives pit not just black against white but African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans (especially Korean Americans) against each other. Reginald Denny was not the only man to be pulled from his truck. Guatemalan immigrant Fidel Lopez, for instance, was seized, beaten, doused with gasoline, and nearly torched by an angry mob that included the same African American men accused of attacking Denny-Damian Williams and Henry Watson. Like Denny, Lopez was saved by courageous African Americans (Gross 1993). In spite of the media's tendency to emphasize African American violence, the rage and

Beyond White and Other: Relationality and Narratives of Race in Feminist Discourse

Why not compare? It's a janus-faced question, a double entendre, its dual meanings depending on emphasis. On the one hand, what are all the reasons why we should not compare? But, on the other hand, why shouldn't we compare, and what are the costs if we do not? Embedded in these questions are more fundamental ones ranging from the epistemological to the methodological. What do we mean by comparison, what effects do our comparisons have, and how do we actually do comparison? By “we” here, I address those involved in intellectual work who face choices on whether or not to engage in comparison; I do not, in this essay, address those who study how and why individuals or human societies compare and with what consequences.

Susan Stanford Friedman

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Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter

Periodizing Modernism: Postcolonial Modernities and the Space/Time Borders of Modernist Studies

Definitional Excursions: The Meanings of Modern/Modernity/Modernism

Beyond White and Other: Relationality and Narratives of Race in Feminist Discourse

Why Not Compare