| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; An Introduction to OOF; 1. A Feminist Object; 2. All Objects Are Deviant: Feminism and Ecological Intimacy; 3. Allure and Abjection: The Possible Potential of Severed Qualities; 4. The World Is Flat and Other Super Weird Ideas; 5. Facing Necrophilia, or "Botox Ethics"; 6. OOPS: Object- Oriented Psychopathia Sexualis; 7. Queering Endocrine Disruption; 8. Political Feminist Positioning in Neoliberal Global Capitalism; 9. In the Cards: From Hearing "Things" to Human Capital |
|
10. Both a Cyborg and a Goddess: Deep Managerial Time and Informatic GovernanceAcknowledgments; Contributors |
| Summary |
The essays in this book explore OOF: a feminist intervention into recent philosophical discourses - like speculative realism, object-oriented ontology (OOO), and new materialism - that take objects, things, stuff, and matter as primary. Object-oriented feminism approaches all objects from the inside-out position of being an object too, with all of its accompanying political and ethical potentials. This volume places OOF thought in a long history of ongoing feminist work in multiple disciplines. In particular, object-oriented feminism foregrounds three significant aspects of feminist thinking in the philosophy of things: politics, engaging with histories of treating certain humans (women, people of color, and the poor) as objects; erotics, employing humor to foment unseemly entanglements between things; and ethics, refusing to make grand philosophical truth claims, instead staking a modest ethical position that arrives at being "in the right" by being "wrong." Seeking not to define object-oriented feminism but rather to enact it, the volume is interdisciplinary in approach, with contributors from a variety of fields, including sociology, anthropology, English, art, and philosophy. Topics are frequently provocative, engaging a wide range of theorists from Heidegger and Levinas to Irigaray and Haraway, and an intriguing diverse array of objects, including the female body as fetish object in Lolita subculture; birds made queer by endocrine disruptors; and truth claims arising in material relations in Indigenous fiction and film. Intentionally, each essay can be seen as an "object" in relation to others in this collection |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Object (Philosophy)
|
|
Feminist theory.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
|
|
ART -- Criticism & Theory.
|
|
Feminist theory
|
|
Object (Philosophy)
|
|
Feminismus
|
|
Objekt Philosophie
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Behar, Katherine, 1976- editor.
|
| ISBN |
9781452952086 |
|
1452952086 |
|
