Empire of Love - Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth A. Povinelli is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University, where she is also Codirector of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture. She is the author of The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism, also published by Duke University Press. She is a former editor of the journal Public Culture. Klappentext Critical analysis of sexual, emotional, and social intimacy as the product of modern liberalism and empire. Zusammenfassung Anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes intimate relations as sites which bring into view the interplay between liberalism's contradictory ideals of freedom and constraint. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xi Empires of Love: An Introduction 1 1. Rotten Worlds 27 2. Spiritual Freedom, Cultural Copyright 95 3. The Intimate Event and Genealogical Society 175 Notes 237 Bibliography 257

Product details

• Authors: Povinelli, Elizabeth A. Povinelli
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.08.2006
• EAN: 9780822338895
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3889-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 197 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Public Planet Books; Public Planet Books
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)