Offers a robust understanding of materiality from a feminist point of view
"This richly layered collection of essays explores materiality from the perspectives of an international group of feminist theorists. . . . Recommended." —K.G. Saulton, Capella University, Choice , November 2008
"Specific, groundbreaking accounts of the material effects of ethical, political, scientific, environmental, and other cultural practices." —Shannon Sullivan, The Pennsylvania State University
". . . Material Feminisms . . . clearly charts new theoretical waters, demonstrating how feminist thinking about materiality suffuses multiple disciplines and keeps them in lively conversation with one another. . . . [It] provide[s] succinct and rich overviews of where
feminist studies, especially feminist technoscience studies, stands today. . . . Material Feminisms includes articles that address race, ethnicity, and disability." —Olivia P. Banner, University of California, Los Angeles, SIGNS , Spring 2009
". . . clearly charts new theoretical waters, demonstrating how feminist thinking about materiality suffuses multiple disciplines and keeps them in lively conversation with one another. . . . provide[s] succinct and rich overviews of where feminist studies, especially feminist technoscience studies, stands today." —Olivia P. Banner, University of California, Los Angeles, SIGNS
Harnessing the energy of provocative theories generated by recent understandings of the human body, the natural world, and the material world, Material Feminisms presents an entirely new way for feminists to conceive of the question of materiality. In lively and timely essays, an international group of feminist thinkers challenges the assumptions and norms that have previously defined studies about the body. These wide-ranging essays grapple with topics such as the material reality of race, the significance of sexual difference, the impact of disability experience, and the complex interaction between nature and culture in traumatic events such as Hurricane Katrina. By insisting on the importance of materiality, this volume breaks new ground in philosophy, feminist theory, cultural studies, science studies, and other fields where the body and nature collide.
Stacy Alaimo is Associate Professor of English at The University of Texas at Arlington. She is author of Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space.
Susan Hekman is Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Humanities at The University of Texas at Arlington. She is author of Private Selves, Public Identities and The Future of Differences.
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Distribution: World
Publication date: 9/23/2009
Format: paper 448 pages, 7 b&w photos, 6.125 x 9.25
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21946-6
