Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Trasatlantic Modern Thought (Next Wave): Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic ... Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)

Wayward Reproductions breaks apart and transfigures prevailing understandings of the interconnection among ideologies of racism, nationalism, and imperialism. Alys Eve Weinbaum demonstrates how these ideologies were founded in large part on what she calls “the race/reproduction bind”––the notion that race is something that is biologically reproduced. In revealing the centrality of ideas about women’s reproductive capacity to modernity’s intellectual foundations, Weinbaum highlights the role that these ideas have played in naturalizing oppression. She argues that attention to how the race/reproduction bind is perpetuated across national and disciplinary boundaries is a necessary part of efforts to combat racism. Gracefully traversing a wide range of discourses––including literature, evolutionary theory, early anthropology, Marxism, feminism, and psychoanalysis––Weinbaum traces a genealogy of the race/reproduction bind within key intellectual formations of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She examines two major theorists of genealogical thinking―Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault―and unearths the unacknowledged ways their formulations link race and reproduction. She explores notions of kinship and the replication of racial difference that run through Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s work; Marxist thinking based on Friedrich Engel’s The Origin of the Family; Charles Darwin’s theory of sexual selection; and Sigmund Freud’s early studies on hysteria. She also describes W. E. B. Du Bois’s efforts to transcend ideas about the reproduction of race that underwrite citizenship and belonging within the United States. In a coda, Weinbaum brings the foregoing analysis to bear on recent genomic and biotechnological innovations. Annotation Wayward Reproductions breaks apart and transfigures prevailing understandings of the interconnection among ideologies of racism, nationalism, and imperialism. Alys Eve Weinbaum demonstrates how these ideologies were founded in large part on what she calls the race/reproduction bindthe notion that race is something that is biologically reproduced. In revealing the centrality of ideas about womens reproductive capacity to modernitys intellectual foundations, Weinbaum highlights the role that these ideas have played in naturalizing oppression. She argues that attention to how the race/reproduction bind is perpetuated across national and disciplinary boundaries is a necessary part of efforts to combat racism. Gracefully traversing a wide range of discoursesincluding literature, evolutionary theory, early anthropology, Marxism, feminism, and psychoanalysisWeinbaum traces a genealogy of the race/reproduction bind within key intellectual formations of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She examines two major theorists of genealogical thinkingFriedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucaultand unearths the unacknowledged ways their formulations link race and reproduction. She explores notions of kinship and the replication of racial difference that run through Charlotte Perkins Gilmans work; Marxist thinking based on Friedrich Engels The Origin of the Family; Charles Darwins theory of sexual selection; and Sigmund Freuds early studies on hysteria. She also describes W. E. B. Du Boiss efforts to transcend ideas about the reproduction of race that underwrite citizenship and belonging within the United States. In a coda, Weinbaum brings the foregoing analysis to bear on recent genomic and biotechnological innovations. __Wayward Reproductions__Gracefully traversing a wide range of discourses––including literature, evolutionary theory, early anthropology, Marxism, feminism, and psychoanalysis––Weinbaum traces a genealogy of the race/reproduction bind within key intellectual formations of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She examines two major theorists of genealogical thinking―Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault―and unearths the unacknowledged ways their formulations link race and reproduction. She explores notions of kinship and the replication of racial difference that run through Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s work; Marxist thinking based on Friedrich Engel’s __The Origin of the Family;__ Charles Darwin’s theory of sexual selection; and Sigmund Freud’s early studies on hysteria. She also describes W. E. B. Du Bois’s efforts to transcend ideas about the reproduction of race that underwrite citizenship and belonging within the United States. In a coda, Weinbaum brings the foregoing analysis to bear on recent genomic and biotechnological innovations. "In focusing on materials gathered from multiple national contexts and academic disciplines the archive that this book constructs and examines makes an argument: to study the race/reproduction bind as a central feature of the modern episteme it is necessary to engage in theoretically oriented work that refuses to be nationally bound inscope. In insisting upon the juxtaposition of modernity's big system builders (Marx, Engels, Darwin, Freud) and well-known philosophers (Nietzsche, Foucault) with less widely recognized literary and political figures such as Gilman, Chopin, and Du Bois, this book also makes a second argument: the Transatlantic racial formation is so complex, often so overwhelming, that to study it one must explore not only the confluence of ideas across national contexts but their confluence across textual sites that might otherwise seem unbearably hetereogeneous."--Introduction "In focusing on materials gathered from multiple national contexts and academic disciplines the archive that this book constructs and examines makes an argument: to study the race/reproduction bind as a central feature of the modern episteme it is necessary to engage in theoretically oriented work that refuses to be nationally bound inscope. In insisting upon the juxtaposition of modernity's big system builders (Marx, Engels, Darwin, Freud) and well-known philosophers (Nietzsche, Foucault) with less widely recognized literary and political figures such as Gilman, Chopin, and Du Bois, this book also makes a second argument: the Transatlantic racial formation is so complex, often so overwhelming, that to study it one must explore not only the confluence of ideas across national contexts but their confluence across textual sites that might otherwise seem unbearably hetereogeneous." --introd Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Genealogy Unbound: Reproduction and Contestation of the Racial Nation 2.Writing Feminist Genealogy: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Reproduction of Racial Nationalism 3. Engels’s Originary Ruse: Race and Reproduction in the Story of Capital 4. Sexual Selection and the Birth of Psychoanalysis: Darwin, Freud, and the Universalization of Wayward Reproduction 5. The Sexual Politics of Black Internationalism:W. E. B. Du Bois and the Reproduction of Racial Globality Coda: Genealogies for a New Millennium Notes Works Cited Index Genealogy Unbound : Reproduction And Contestation Of The Racial Nation -- Writing Feminist Genealogy : Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Racial Nationalism And The Reproduction Of Maternalist Feminism -- Engels's Originary Ruse : Reproduction, Race, And Nation In The Story Of Capital -- Sexual Selection And The Birth Of Psychoanalysis : Darwin, Freud, And The Racialization Of Wayward Reproduction -- The Sexual Politics Of Black Internationalism -- Coda : Gene/alogies For A New Millennium. Alys Eve Weinbaum. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [307]-338) And Index. Genealogy unbound : reproduction and contestation of the racial nation -- Writing feminist genealogy : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the reproduction of racial nationalism -- Engels's originary ruse : race and reproduction in the story of capital -- Sexual selection and the birth of psychoanalysis : Darwin, Freud, and the universalization of wayward reproduction -- The sexual politics and black internationalism : Du Bois and the reproduction of Black Globality -- Coda : gene/alogies for a new millennium An interpretive history of the way competing ideas of reproduction as a biological and sexual process became central to the organization of knowledge about the flow of capital, labor power, human bodies, and babies both within nations and across national borders