Table of Contents

Contents

IntroductionI. History, Affect, Representation1. Labor Organizing in Mexico's Entangled Economies2. The Materiality of Affect3. Bearing WitnessII. Sex, Labor, Movement4. Open Secrets5. The Value of a Second Skin6. Feeling Bodies, Jeans, Justice7. The North-South EncuentrosIII. The Utopian Question8. Love in the Common

AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

About the Author

Rosemary Hennessy is L. H. Favrot Professor of Humanities, professor of English, and director of the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University.

Reviews

"Fires on the Border addresses a clear gap in the scholarship on transnational movements and organizing along the Mexico-U.S. divide: the role of sexuality in the creation of affective bonds within social alliances and political networks that span the grassroots to the transnational. In this timely, excellent book, Rosemary Hennessy incorporates a political economic analysis in her discussion of affective alliances in social movements (binational and/or transnational) among workers affected by the maquiladora industry." —Melissa W. Wright, author of Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism