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Title Material feminisms / edited by Stacy Alaimo & Susan Hekman
Published Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2008]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 434 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction : emerging models of materiality in feminist theory / Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman -- Darwin and feminism : preliminary investigations for a possible alliance / Elizabeth Grosz -- On not becoming man : the materialist politics of unactualized potential / Claire Colebrook -- Constructing the ballast : an ontology for feminism / Susan Hekman -- Posthumanist performativity : toward an understanding of how matter comes to matter / Karen Barad -- Otherworldly conversations, terran topics, local terms / Donna J. Haraway -- Viscous porosity : witnessing Katrina / Nancy Tuana -- Natural convers(at)ions : or, what if culture was really nature all along? / Vicki Kirby -- Trans-corporeal feminisms and the ethical space of nature / Stacy Alaimo -- Landscape, memory, and forgetting : thinking through (my mother's) body and place / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands -- Disability experience on trial / Tobin Siebers -- How real is race? / Michael Hames-García -- From race/sex/etc. to glucose, feeding tube, and mourning : the shifting matter of Chicana feminism / Suzanne Bost -- Organic empathy : feminism, psychopharmaceuticals, and the embodiment of depression / Elizabeth A. Wilson -- Cassie's hair / Susan Bordo
Summary Harnessing the energy of provocative theories generated by recent understandings of the human body, the natural world and the material world, 'Material Feminisms' presents a way for feminists to conceive of the question of materiality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Feminist theory.
Human body.
Feminism.
Feminism
feminism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Phenomenology.
Feminist theory
Human body
Feminismus
Körper
Feministisk teori -- filosofi -- Förenta staterna -- 2000-talet.
Utvecklingslära -- feminism.
Kropp.
Etnicitet.
Naturkatastrofer -- beteende -- könsolikheter.
Feministisk teori.
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Alaimo, Stacy, 1962- writer of introduction, editor, author.
Hekman, Susan J., writer of introduction, editor, author.
ISBN 0253013607
9780253013606