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Zusatztext "For all those-and here, embarrassingly, I include myself-who have had too cerebral a concept of the dynamics of sexism and racism, Shannon Sullivan's new book will come as a revelation. These systems of domination turn out to be 'material' not merely in the familiar sense of generating economic advantage and disadvantage but in the literal sense of re-incorporating the bodies of both the privileged and the subordinated. Through embodied affect, gut reaction, epigenetic inheritance, and incarnated ignorance, gender and racial domination write themselves into our flesh, undermining familiar oppositions of the natural and the social, the innate and the acquired. For an emancipatory anti-sexist and anti-racist agenda to have any chance of success, it will need to engage not merely with hearts and minds but intestines and muscle fibers-the (all too real) somatic infrastructure of the figurative body politic. " -Charles W. Mills, Northwestern University Informationen zum Autor Shannon Sullivan is Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair at UNC Charlotte. Klappentext This book argues that gender and race are physiologically constituted through the biopsychosocial effects of sexism and racism. Sullivan skillfully combines feminist and critical philosophy of race with the biological and health sciences to provide new strategies for fighting male and white privilege. Zusammenfassung This book argues that gender and race are physiologically constituted through the biopsychosocial effects of sexism and racism. Sullivan skillfully combines feminist and critical philosophy of race with the biological and health sciences to provide new strategies for fighting male and white privilege. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction: Physiological Habits 1. The Hips: On the Physiology of Affect and Emotion 2. The Gut and Pelvic Floor: On Cloacal Thinking 3. The Epigenome: On the Transgenerational Effects of Racism 4. The Stomach and the Heart: On the Physiology of White Ignorance Conclusion: Social-Political Change and Physiological Transformation Bibliography Index ...
