Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World
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DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2020.1840741
Abstract: Sarah Anne Carter, curator and director of research at the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee, begins her book by providing a twenty-first century definition of an object lesson: “an unexceptional m... read more here.
Keywords: lessons nineteenth; object lessons; nineteenth century; century ... See more keywords
‘In retrospect’: Object Lessons forum
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DOI: 10.1177/14647001221143032
Abstract: Our contribution takes shape as reflections on Object Lessons (Wiegman, 2012) from the perspective of three scholars of race, gender and sexuality who were also graduate students of Robyn Wiegman in the mid-2000s at Duke… read more here.
Keywords: lessons forum; object lessons; retrospect object;
Asking the question of it: trans/gender object lessons
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DOI: 10.1177/14647001221143036
Abstract: This article queries the very question of and that is ‘gender’, from the vantage of transgender studies. In other words, it moves through Wiegman's question of the desires that propel us and asks what desires… read more here.
Keywords: question trans; object lessons; trans gender; question ... See more keywords
Reading Object Lessons in India today
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DOI: 10.1177/14647001221143037
Abstract: This essay situates Object Lessons in the contemporary academic spaces of women’s studies in India. A decade ago, Object Lessons offered an extensive critique of identity knowledges in the US academy with a special focus… read more here.
Keywords: object lessons; lessons india; reading object; women studies ... See more keywords