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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Offers a robust understanding of materiality from a feminist point of view Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Emerging Models of Materiality in Feminist Theory / Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman Part 1. Material Theory 1. Darwin and Feminism: Preliminary Investigations for a Possible Alliance / Elizabeth Grosz 2. On Not Becoming Man: The Materialist Politics of Unactualized Potential / Claire Colebrook 3. Constructing the Ballast: An Ontology for Feminism / Susan Hekman 4. Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter / Karen Barad Part 2. Material World 5. Otherworldly Conversations, Terran Topics, Local Terms / Donna J. Haraway 6. Viscous Porosity: Witnessing Katrina / Nancy Tuana 7. Natural Convers(at)ions: Or, What if Culture Was Really Nature All Along? / Vicki Kirby 8. Trans-Corporeal Feminisms and the Ethical Space of Nature / Stacy Alaimo 9. Landscape, Memory, and Forgetting: Thinking through (My Mother's) Body and Place / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands Part 3. Material Bodies 10. Disability Experience on Trial / Tobin Siebers 11. How Real Is Race? / Michael Hames-García 12. From Race/Sex/Etc. to Glucose, Feeding Tube, and Mourning: The Shifting Matter of Chicana Feminism / Suzanne Bost 13. Organic Empathy: Feminism, Psychopharmaceuticals and the Embodiment of Depression / Elizabeth A. Wilson 14. Cassie's Hair / Susan Bordo List of Contributors Index ...
