Working with affect in feminist readings : disturbing differences / / edited by Marianne Liljestrom and Susanna Paasonen

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.42
• Soggetto topico: Affect (Psychology); Feminism
• Altri autori: LiljestromMarianne PaasonenSusanna <1975->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Feeling differences - affect and feminist reading; 1 An affective turn? Reimagining the subject of feminist theory; Part I Affective attachments; 2 Creating disturbance: Feminism, happiness and affective differences; 3 A sense of play: Affect, emotion and embodiment in World of Warcraft; 4 Disturbing, fleshy texts: Close looking at pornography; 5 Expanding laughter: Affective viewing, body image incongruity and Fat Actress; 6 Daughters of privilege: Class, sexuality, affect and the Gilmore Girls ; Part II Dynamics of difference7 Differences disturbing identity: Deleuze and feminism; 8 Nomadic bodies, transformative spaces: Affective encounters with Indian spirituality; 9 Hips don't lie?: Affective and kinaesthetic dance ethnography; 10 Ethics of empathy and reading in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night; 11 Beyond redemption?: Mobilizing affect in feminist reading; 12 Crossing the east-west divide: Feminist affective dialogues; 13 Working with affect in the corporate university; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Affect has become something of a buzzword in cultural and feminist theory during the past decade. References to affect, emotions and intensities abound, their implications in terms of research practices have often remained less manifest. Working with Affect in Feminist Readings: Disturbing Differences explores the place and function of affect in feminist knowledge production in general and in textual methodology in particular. With an international group of contributors from studies of history, media, philosophy, culture, ethnology, art, literature and religion, the volume
• Titolo autorizzato: Working with affect in feminist readings
• ISBN: 1-134-01788-X; 1-134-01789-8; 1-282-59573-3; 9786612595738; 0-203-88592-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792360903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Transformations.