Turning on its head that familiar "woman question," this innovative work poses masculinity as a problem that requires explanation. Ferguson rebukes the sense of coherence contained in patriarchal theory in the name of a voice that both calls upon and challenges the category woman. Stepping back from the opposition of male and female, she artfully loosens the hold of gender on life and meaning, creating and at the same time deconstructing a women's point of view. Posing the "man question" provides a way not only to view male power and female subordination but also to valorize and problematize women's experiences, thus destabilizing conventional notions of man and woman.

The Man Question: Visions of Subjectivity in Feminist Theory

Politics & Social Sciences

Ferguson, Kathy E.

Social Sciences

University of California Press

Everywhere you look in Hawai'i, you might see the military. And yet, in daily life few residents see the military at all -- it is hidden in plain sight. This paradox of invisibility and visibility is the subject of Oh, Say, Can You See?, which maps the power relations involving gender, race, and class that define Hawai'i in relation to the national security state.
Authors Kathy E. Ferguson and Phyllis Turnbull locate and "excavate" cemeteries, memorials, monuments, and museums, to show how the military constructs its gendered narrative upon prior colonial discourses. Among the sites considered are Fort DeRussy, Pearl Harbor, and Punchbowl Cemetery.
This semiotic investigation of ways the military marks Hawai'i necessarily explores the intersection of immigration, colonialism, military expansion, and tourism on the islands. Attending to the ways in which the military represents itself and others represent the military, the authors locate the particular representational elements that both conceal and reveal the military's presence and power.

Oh, Say, Can You See: The Semiotics of the Military in Hawai’i (Volume 10) (The Barrows Lectures)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Criticism of the military in Hawai'i.

Oh, Say, Can You See?: The Semiotics of the Military in Hawaii (Barrows Lectures) (Volume 10)

Like it or not, all of us who live in modern society are organization men and women. We tend to be caught in the traditional patterns of dominance and subordination. This book is both pessimistic and hopeful. With devastating thoroughness, the author shows how pervasive these patterns of relationship are in our work lives and personal lives, and how deep they run into the very language of the organization and of ordinary life. This is not a book about how women can succeed in business, but a criticism of books like those success manuals and notions like that idea of success. The author sees bureaucrats and clients as the 'second sex'. To fit in properly, they just learn the skills necessary to cope with subordinate status, skills that women have always learned as part of their 'femininity'.Liberal reforms placing more women in management positions, for example are not enough. What is required is the emergence of an alternative voice, one grounded in the experience and perceptions of women, that will challenge the patterns of control found in every aspect of modern life. Public discourse today is not the language of women even when women speak it. In this brilliant synthesis of the feminist literature and the literature on organizational theory and practice, the author suggests how a feminist discourse could interject into public debate a reformulation of the basic political questions of power, reason, and organization and thereby legitimate a concern of both autonomy and community. In the face of the massive incursions of bureaucracy into daily life, this is an important contribution to the project of human liberation. Author note: Kathy E. Ferguson is Associate Professor of Political Science at Siena College.

The feminist case against bureaucracy (Women in the political economy)

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Temple University Press

An American professor of political science describe her four-month visit to Israel, and shares her impressions of social and political life there today

Kibbutz Journal: Reflections on Gender, Race & Militarism in Israel

History

Americas

Trilogy Books

Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture

While the stock image of the anarchist as a masked bomber or brick thrower prevails in the public eye, a more representative figure should be a printer at a printing press. In Letterpress Revolution, Kathy E. Ferguson explores the importance of printers, whose materials galvanized anarchist movements across the United States and Great Britain from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s. Ferguson shows how printers--whether working at presses in homes, offices, or community centers--arranged text, ink, images, graphic markers, and blank space within the architecture of the page. Printers' extensive correspondence with fellow anarchists and the radical ideas they published created dynamic and entangled networks that brought the decentralized anarchist movements together. Printers and presses did more than report on the movement; they were constitutive of it, and their vitality in anarchist communities helps explain anarchism's remarkable persistence in the face of continuous harassment, arrest, assault, deportation, and exile. By inquiring into the political, material, and aesthetic practices of anarchist print culture, Ferguson points to possible methods for cultivating contemporary political resistance.

World

Duke University Press Books

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The Man Question: Visions of Subjectivity in Feminist Theory

Oh, Say, Can You See: The Semiotics of the Military in Hawai’i (Volume 10) (The Barrows Lectures)

Oh, Say, Can You See?: The Semiotics of the Military in Hawaii (Barrows Lectures) (Volume 10)

The feminist case against bureaucracy (Women in the political economy)

Kibbutz Journal: Reflections on Gender, Race & Militarism in Israel

Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture

Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture