Working with Affect in Feminist Readings: Disturbing Differences

ISBN-13: 9780415528900 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 216 str.

Marianne Liljeström;Susanna Paasonen

Opis

This study explores the place and function of affect in feminist knowledge production, investigating what it means to work with and through affect, as well as the kinds of ethical and methodological challenges that this involves.

Spis treści

Introduction: Feeling Differences – Affect and Feminist Reading 1. An Affective Turn? Reimagining the Subject of Feminist Theory  Part 1: 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 2: Dynamics of Difference 7. 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