Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in intersectionality and transnational feminisms. Alexander is brilliant. I particularly loved her chapter about her experience at the New School and how 'diversity' initiatives elide the real problem of social justice: "normative whiteness" or "eurocentricism" in so called liberal progressive schools like New School in her opinion.

This book is amazing. A canonical Black feminist text, and a must have for any feminist or Black studies student.

Just started to read- great so far.

I am a graduate student and bought the Kindle version of this book. It is unfortunately a waste of time. I am viewing this books with the Widdows 8 Kindle app and am unable to search within the text of the book. Also, the ''Table of Contents" button is not activated. Did I mention, that there are no page numbers. How on earth am I supposed to make proper citations and navigate through it? My suggestion to Amazon, I am reading a book for research and not chick lit for my amusement. Um... pages numbers, chapter headings, being able to search the text (those minor things that enable you to cite text properly) actually do matter!My suggestion to anyone who is using this book for research: DO NOT BUY THE KINDLE VERSION IF YOU ARE USING THE WINDOWS 8 KINDLE APP!Perhaps, I am not technologically savvy enough! If anyone has suggestions on how I may get my money's worth? Please, let me know.

Not since the early 1980s has there been a book that literally takes one's breath away. Prof. Alexander's new volume is profoundly spiritual at the same time it's grounded in a unique materialist feminism. Its signifiance also lies in the book's manifestations of a real hope. Being alive and politically conscious in the first decade of the 21st century is to be easily seduced by despair, it is also to be absolutely at odds with terrible, counter revolutionary, antifeminist cultures. Not for Alexander glib, soggy liberalism but a spirit that is courageous and awe-inspiring. In the book's third section, Alexander writes of 'returning' to the magnificent anthology, 'This Bridge Called My Back' and, following this essay, the book's most thrilling chapter, in which the writer conjures a new life force, one thoroughly rooted in both spiritual and secular lifeworlds. As if this adjectival 'heap' of praise were not enough, Alexander's book render obsolete the common periodization of feminisms by 'wave'. It would not be innacurate to say that 'Pedagogies of Crossing' is a epistemic rupture, demanding its readers to again grapple with feminist legacies from an entirely new standpoint. If you've not heard Prof. Alexander speak, I suggest you do so as soon as possible. The impact of her spoken word 'appearances' powerful. Her lectures constitute an epistemological rupture, filling one with true hope.

This is a re-print by Amazon and not the copy of the book published by Duke. Strange layout, poor page set-up, a cheap re-print. Is this allowed at all?!