Transformation Now!: Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change

by AnaLouise Keating

In this lively, thought-provoking study, AnaLouise Keating writes in the traditions of radical U.S. women-of-color feminist/womanist thought and queer studies, inviting us to transform how we think about identity, difference, social justice and social change, metaphysics, reading, and teaching. Through detailed investigations of women of color theories and writings, indigenous thought, and her own personal and pedagogical experiences, Keating develops transformative modes of engagement that move through oppositional approaches to embrace interconnectivity as a framework for identity formation, theorizing, social change, and the possibility of planetary citizenship. Speaking to many dimensions of contemporary scholarship, activism, and social justice work, Transformation Now! calls for and enacts innovative, radically inclusionary ways of reading, teaching, and communicating.

Genres: Feminism

280 pages, Hardcover

First published October 30, 2012

About the author

AnaLouise Keating, Professor of Women’s Studies at Texas Woman’s University, is the author of Women Reading, Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde; editor of Anzaldúa’s Interviews/Entrevistas and EntreMundos/AmongWorlds: New Perspectives on Gloria Anzaldúa; and co-editor, with Anzaldúa, of this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation.

Reviews

[Fia · Rating 5 out of 5]

it’s such a heavy, conceptual, and reflected-through-my-soul-and-brain book! i feel like, this book has changed so many perspectives and core beliefs i had since i graduated from gender studies. yet, there’s a lot of thinking processes that i need to handle after i finished this book.

and i can’t wait to make reviews about this book ASAP on my podcast! currently, i enjoy reading such books. if anyone has recommendations similar to this kind of book, i’m very welcome!

[Scott Neigh]

Reviewed, at long last, here.