{"product_id":"vexy-thing-on-gender-and-liberation-9781478000815","title":"Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation","description":"Even as feminism has become increasingly central to our ideas about institutions, relationships, and everyday life, the term used to diagnose the problem--\"patriarchy\"--is used so loosely that it has lost its meaning. In \u003ci\u003eVexy Thing\u003c\/i\u003e Imani Perry resurrects patriarchy as a target of critique, recentering it to contemporary discussions of feminism through a social and literary analysis of cultural artifacts from the Enlightenment to the present. Drawing on a rich array of sources--from nineteenth-century slavery court cases and historical vignettes to writings by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde and art by Kara Walker and Wangechi Mutu--Perry shows how the figure of the patriarch emerged as part and parcel of modernity, the nation-state, the Industrial Revolution, and globalization. She also outlines how digital media and technology, neoliberalism, and the security state continue to prop up patriarchy. By exploring the past and present of patriarchy in the world we have inherited and are building for the future, Perry exposes its mechanisms of domination as a necessary precursor to dismantling it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImani Perry is Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of \u003ci\u003eProphets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press, and \u003ci\u003eMore Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641708155154,"sku":"9781478000815","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_243c59ba-faac-4fbb-8622-8bba361d79ff.jpg?v=1733031643","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/vexy-thing-on-gender-and-liberation-9781478000815","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}