Epistolary Narratives of Love, Gender and Agonistic Politics - An Arendtian Approach

Drawing on archival research and exploring the correspondence of revolutionary women and activists in the long durée of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Europe and the USA, this book examines the epistolary narratives of women political theorists and activists, following traces of Hannah Arendt's philosophical approaches to love.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Rethinking Love through Arendtian Eyes
Chapter 1: Feeling, Reading, Thinking, Writing Love
Chapter 2: Portraits of Moments in BiosHistory Entanglements
Chapter 3: Archival Agonism, Resistibility and Memory Work
Chapter 4: Amor Mundi, or the Reality of Utopian Love
Chapter 5: Epistolary Waves, Politics, Memory and the Force of Love
Chapter 6: Nobody Knows what Love Can Do
Chapter 7: Even Workers Fall in Love: Eros in the Labour Movement
Conclusion: Epistolary Poethics and Agonistic Politics
Index

About the author

Maria Tamboukou is Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of East London, UK, and Leverhulme Major Research Fellow (2022-2025). She is the author of Gendering the Memory of Work and Women, Education and the Self, and the co-author of The Archive Project.

Summary

Drawing on archival research and exploring the correspondence of revolutionary women and activists in the long durée of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Europe and the USA, this book examines the epistolary narratives of women political theorists and activists, following traces of Hannah Arendt’s philosophical approaches to love.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Tamboukou, Maria (University of East London Tamboukou, Tamboukou Maria
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032208428
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3220842-8
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology, Feminism & feminist theory, Regional Studies, Philosophy: aesthetics, Regional / International studies, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Library & Information Sciences, Research methods: general, Library and information sciences / Museology