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Silence, Feminism, Power

Reflections at the Edges of Sound

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Sheena Malhotra

    1. California State University, Northridge, USA

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  2. Aimee Carrillo Rowe

    1. California State University, Northridge, USA

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Still the Silence: Feminist Reflections at the Edges of Sound

    1. Still the Silence: Feminist Reflections at the Edges of Sound

      • Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Sheena Malhotra
      Pages 1-22

  3. Transformative Silences: Intersectionality, Privilege, Alliances

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Resistant Silences

      • Christine (Cricket) Keating
      Pages 25-33

    3. Between Speech and Silence: Reflections on Accountability

      • Ann Russo
      Pages 34-49

    4. Qwe’re Performances of Silence: Many Ways to Live “Out Loud”

      • Julia R. Johnson
      Pages 50-66

    5. Silence Speaks Volumes: Counter-Hegemonic Silences, Deafness, and Alliance Work

      • Rachel Levitt
      Pages 67-81

  4. Learning to Listen: Academia, Silence, Resistance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Imposed Silence and the Story of the Warramunga Woman: Alternative Interpretations and Possibilities

      • Robin Clair
      Pages 85-94

    3. Silence and Voice in a More-than-Human World

      • Jeff Bile
      Pages 95-100

    4. Inila: An Account of Opening to Sacred Knowing

      • Sarah Amira De la Garza
      Pages 101-113

    5. Attuned to Silence: A Pedagogy of Presence

      • Alexandra Fidyk
      Pages 114-128

    6. Hear I Meet the Silence: The Wise Pedagogue

      • Cheryl Lossie
      Pages 129-138

    7. The US Day of Silence: Sexualities, Silences, and the Will to Unsay in the Age of Empire

      • Gust A. Yep, Susan B. Shimanoff
      Pages 139-156

  5. Recovering Silences: Community, Family, Intimacy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Keeping Quiet: Performing Pain

      • Della Pollock
      Pages 159-175

    3. 3210 S. Indiana: Silence and the Meanings of Home

      • Francesca Royster
      Pages 176-187

    4. Fences, Weapons, Gifts: Silences in the Context of Addiction

      • Kris Acheson
      Pages 188-199

    5. My Monster and My Muse: Re-Writing the Colonial Hangover

      • Kimberlee Pérez
      Pages 200-216

  6. Legacies of Silences: Memory, Healing, Power

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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About this book

An interrogation of the often-unexamined assumption that silence is oppressive, to consider the multiple possibilities silence enables. The volume features diverse feminist reflections on the nuanced relationship between silence and voice to foreground the creative, meditative, generative and resistive power our silences engender.

Editors and Affiliations

  • California State University, Northridge, USA

    Sheena Malhotra, Aimee Carrillo Rowe

About the editors

SHEENA MALHOTRA is Professor and Chair of Gender & Women's Studies at California State University, Northridge, USA. Her research focuses on media in India and the Indian diaspora, drawing on Feminist Media Studies and Transnational/Postcolonial Feminism. She is co-author of Answer The Call: Virtual Migration in Indian Call Centers.
AIMEE CARRILLO ROWE is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Northridge, USA. She teaches and writes in the areas of Rhetoric, Feminist Theory, and Cultural Studies. Her book, Power Lines: On the Subject of Feminist Alliances (2008), explores subjectivity as relational, generating possibilities for transracial feminist alliances.

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