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ISBN: 0804780234 0585457794 9780585457796 9780804732925 0804732922 0804732930 9780804780230 Year: 2001 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press
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This book writes itself off the guide map of familiar literary forms and melts down conceptual barriers, offering a new kind of reading and thinking experience as it tells the life and travel stories of fascinating women and examines women’s physical mobility in a culture of gendered, postcolonial space that restricts their movement. Straddling the divide between fiction and scholarship, it combines fictional narrative, contemplation, theoretical thinking, scholarly discussion, and interviews. The book examines and crosses boundaries on various ontological levels—between genders, languages, historical epochs, and literary genres—as it questions reality, identity, knowledge, culture, truth, and mind. While openly confronting the author’s location in Israel, the book looks at women’s ability to take themselves from place to place, viewing space and spatial freedom as deeply gendered in modern Western cultures. From this perspective, “home” is imagined as a protective holding space for one gender, and girls are systematically deskilled for spatial competence. The author tells of women whose lives embody a powerful project of travel, realizing exceptional degrees of independence, and also tells of women who refrain from driving, a major contemporary tool of autonomous movement. The book imagines a movement-nurturing space that subverts the confining construct of home. From this nonexistent yet tangibly welcoming home space, the “glass corridors” of home—analogous to the “glass ceiling” of professional life—can be brought into full view and denaturalized. This cannot be accomplished, however, without a compelling, painful look at the patriarchal, colonial, and militarized structures underpinning all Western travel, women’s emancipatory journeys included—a look influenced by the still-colonial structure of the author’s Israeli placement.
Women --- Spatial behavior. --- Social mobility. --- Women travelers. --- Travelers, Women --- Travelers --- Mobility, Social --- Sociology --- Behavior, Spatial --- Proxemic behavior --- Space behavior --- Spatially-oriented behavior --- Psychology --- Space and time --- Feminism --- Social conditions.
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ISBN: 9781890951894 9781890951887 1890951889 1890951897 9781935408376 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press,
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In this compelling work, Ariella Azoulay reconsiders the political and ethical status of photography. Describing the power relations that sustain and make possible photographic meanings, Azoulay argues that anyone—even a stateless person—who addresses others through photographs or is addressed by photographs can become a member of the citizenry of photography. The civil contract of photography enables anyone to pursue political agency and resistance through photography. Photography, Azoulay insists, cannot be understood separately from the many catastrophes of recent history. The crucial arguments of her book concern two groups with flawed or nonexistent citizenship: the Palestinian noncitizens of Israel and women in Western societies. Azoulay analyzes Israeli press photographs of violent episodes in the Occupied Territories, and interprets various photographs of women—from famous images by stop-motion photographer Eadweard Muybridge to photographs from Abu Ghraib prison. Azoulay asks this question: under what legal, political, or cultural conditions does it become possible to see and to show disaster that befalls those who can claim only incomplete or nonexistent citizenship? Drawing on such key texts in the history of modern citizenship as the Declaration of the Rights of Man together with relevant work by Giorgio Agamben, Jean-François Lyotard, Susan Sontag, and Roland Barthes, Azoulay explores the visual field of catastrophe, injustice, and suffering in our time. Her book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the disasters of recent history—and the consequences of how these events and their victims have been represented.
Photography --- Palestinian Arabs --- Photographie --- Histoire de la photographie --- Photographie de reportage --- Art et politique --- Art militant --- Social aspects --- Philosophy --- Public opinion --- Palestine --- 77.03 --- 77.044 --- fotografie --- fotografietheorie --- reportagefotografie --- documentaire fotografie --- Israël --- Palestina --- 77.01 --- Arab Palestinians --- Arabs --- Arabs in Palestine --- Palestinians --- Ethnology --- Documentaire fotografie --- Nieuwsfotografie. Reportage --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Public opinion. --- 77.044 Nieuwsfotografie. Reportage --- 77.03 Documentaire fotografie --- Photography - Social aspects --- Photography - Philosophy --- Palestinian Arabs - Israel - Pictorial works --- Palestinian Arabs - Israel - Public opinion
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ISBN: 9781782381730 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York Oxford
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ISBN: 9781782381730 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York; ; Oxford Berghahn Books
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