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Book Reviews: ALEXANDER, M. Jacqui, Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), pp. 424, £15.95 pbk

Book Reviews: ALEXANDER, M. Jacqui, Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual... Book ReviewsALEXANDER, M. Jacqui, Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), pp. 424, £15.95 pbk SAGE Publications, Inc.2007DOI: 10.1177/13558358070130030903 KathyRudy This well-written collection of essays covers a lot of ground from many disciplinary perspectives. While feminism is the central concept driving most of the work, Jacqui Alexander expands the term in different directions and in different ways throughout each chapter. Sometimes feminism is most closely connected to queer theory and studies of sexuality, especially with regard to how sexualities are produced and contained by state power in both the USA and the Caribbean. In the first two chapters, for example, Alexander uses concrete cases of domestic violence and gay-bashing to map a new interpretation of hegemony, as well as a progressive feminist response of resistance to that hegemony. She is also interested, here, in the ways that tourism alters and reinterprets native and rural constructions, and is very skeptical that tourism can revive these economies without destroying them. Her writing is lucid and free of jargon. At other times, feminism is aligned with transnationality and globalization. Alexander's is one of many projects trying to grapple with the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Theology and Sexuality SAGE

Book Reviews: ALEXANDER, M. Jacqui, Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), pp. 424, £15.95 pbk

Theology and Sexuality , Volume 13 (3): 331 – May 1, 2007

Book Reviews: ALEXANDER, M. Jacqui, Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), pp. 424, £15.95 pbk

Theology and Sexuality , Volume 13 (3): 331 – May 1, 2007

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Book ReviewsALEXANDER, M. Jacqui, Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), pp. 424, £15.95 pbk SAGE Publications, Inc.2007DOI: 10.1177/13558358070130030903 KathyRudy This well-written collection of essays covers a lot of ground from many disciplinary perspectives. While feminism is the central concept driving most of the work, Jacqui Alexander expands the term in different directions and in different ways throughout each chapter. Sometimes feminism is most closely connected to queer theory and studies of sexuality, especially with regard to how sexualities are produced and contained by state power in both the USA and the Caribbean. In the first two chapters, for example, Alexander uses concrete cases of domestic violence and gay-bashing to map a new interpretation of hegemony, as well as a progressive feminist response of resistance to that hegemony. She is also interested, here, in the ways that tourism alters and reinterprets native and rural constructions, and is very skeptical that tourism can revive these economies without destroying them. Her writing is lucid and free of jargon. At other times, feminism is aligned with transnationality and globalization. Alexander's is one of many projects trying to grapple with the

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Book ReviewsALEXANDER, M. Jacqui, Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), pp. 424, £15.95 pbk SAGE Publications, Inc.2007DOI: 10.1177/13558358070130030903 KathyRudy This well-written collection of essays covers a lot of ground from many disciplinary perspectives. While feminism is the central concept driving most of the work, Jacqui Alexander expands the term in different directions and in different ways throughout each chapter. Sometimes feminism is most closely connected to queer theory and studies of sexuality, especially with regard to how sexualities are produced and contained by state power in both the USA and the Caribbean. In the first two chapters, for example, Alexander uses concrete cases of domestic violence and gay-bashing to map a new interpretation of hegemony, as well as a progressive feminist response of resistance to that hegemony. She is also interested, here, in the ways that tourism alters and reinterprets native and rural constructions, and is very skeptical that tourism can revive these economies without destroying them. Her writing is lucid and free of jargon. At other times, feminism is aligned with transnationality and globalization. Alexander's is one of many projects trying to grapple with the

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