Offers a robust understanding of materiality from a feminist point of view
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.
Acknowledgments
p. xi
Introduction: Emerging Models of Materiality in Feminist Theory
p. 1
Material Theory
Darwin and Feminism: Preliminary Investigations for a Possible Alliance
p. 23
On Not Becoming Man: The Materialist Politics of Unactualized Potential
p. 52
Constructing the Ballast: An Ontology for Feminism
p. 85
Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter
p. 120
Material World
Otherworldly Conversations, Terran Topics, Local Terms
p. 157
Viscous Porosity: Witnessing Katrina
p. 188
Natural Convers(at)ions: Or, What if Culture was Really Nature all Along?
p. 214
Trans-Corporeal Feminisms and the Ethical Space of Nature
p. 237
Landscape, Memory, and Forgetting: Thinking Through (my Mother's) Body and Place
p. 265
Material Bodies
Disability Experience on Trial
p. 291
How Real Is Race?
p. 308
From Race/Sex/Etc. To Glucose, Feeding Tube, and Mourning: The Shifting Matter of Chicana Feminism
p. 340
Organic Empathy: Feminism, Psychopharmaceuticals, and the Embodiment of Depression
p. 373
Cassie's Hair
p. 400
List of Contributors
p. 425
Index
p. 429
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