Queer Phenomenology
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- Author : Sara Ahmed
- Publisher : Duke University Press
- Release : 13 November 2006
- ISBN : 9780822388074
- Page : 234 pages
- Rating : 4.5/5 from 103 voters
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In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the “orientation” aspect of “sexual orientation” and the “orient” in “orientalism,” Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time. Bodies take shape as they move through the world directing themselves toward or away from objects and others. Being “orientated” means feeling at home, knowing where one stands, or having certain objects within reach. Orientations affect what is proximate to the body or what can be reached. A queer phenomenology, Ahmed contends, reveals how social relations are arranged spatially, how queerness disrupts and reorders these relations by not following the accepted paths, and how a politics of disorientation puts other objects within reach, those that might, at first glance, seem awry. Ahmed proposes that a queer phenomenology might investigate not only how the concept of orientation is informed by phenomenology but also the orientation of phenomenology itself. Thus she reflects on the significance of the objects that appear—and those that do not—as signs of orientation in classic phenomenological texts such as Husserl’s Ideas. In developing a queer model of orientations, she combines readings of phenomenological texts—by Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Fanon—with insights drawn from queer studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, and psychoanalysis. Queer Phenomenology points queer theory in bold new directions.
Queer Phenomenology
- Author : Sara Ahmed
- Publisher : Duke University Press
- Release Date : 2006-11-13
- ISBN : 9780822388074
In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the “orientation” aspect of “sexual orientation” and the “orient” in “orientalism,” Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time. Bodies take shape as they move through the world directing themselves toward or away from objects and others. Being “orientated” means feeling at home, knowing where one stands, or having certain objects within reach. Orientations affect what
Queer Phenomenology
- Author : Sara Ahmed
- Publisher : Duke University Press
- Release Date : 2006-12-04
- ISBN : 0822339145
Cultural theorist Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use by analyzing what it means for bodies to be "oriented" in space and time.
Queer Phenomenology
- Author : Sara Ahmed
- Publisher : Duke University Press Books
- Release Date : 2006-12-04
- ISBN : UOM:39015066880298
Cultural theorist Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use by analyzing what it means for bodies to be "oriented" in space and time.
The Queer Art of Failure
- Author : Judith Halberstam
- Publisher : Duke University Press
- Release Date : 2011-09-19
- ISBN : 9780822350453
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives - to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that has extensively theorized hegemony but paid little attention to counter-hegemony. Judith Halberstam proposes "low theory" as a means of recovering ways of being and forms of knowledge not legitimized by existing systems and institutions. Low theory is derived from eccentric
Conceptual Analyses of Curriculum Inquiry Methodologies
- Author : Watson, Sandy White,Austin, Stacie,Bell, Jeremy
- Publisher : IGI Global
- Release Date : 2021-12-03
- ISBN : 9781799888505
The field of curriculum inquiry has grown rapidly over the last four decades resulting in many new forms of curriculum inquiry to be used as tools to answer unique curriculum-related research questions. There are few texts available that include concise descriptions and elements of curriculum inquiry methodologies and directed at enabling researchers to wisely choose a form of curriculum inquiry most appropriate for their study. Conceptual Analyses of Curriculum Inquiry Methodologies presents chapters that are each devoted to a particular
The Life and Death of Latisha King
- Author : Gayle Salamon
- Publisher : NYU Press
- Release Date : 2018-03-20
- ISBN : 9781479810529
What can the killing of a transgender teen teach us about the violence of misreading gender identity as sexual identity? The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brandon McInerney in their junior high school classroom in Oxnard, California in 2008. The press coverage of the shooting, as well as the criminal trial that followed, referred to Latisha, assigned male at birth, as Larry. Unpacking the consequences of representing the
What's the Use?
- Author : Sara Ahmed
- Publisher : Unknown
- Release Date : 2019-10-25
- ISBN : 147800584X
Continuing the work she began in The Promise of Happiness and Willful Subjects by taking up a single word and following its historical, intellectual, and political significance, Sara Ahmed explores how use operates as an organizing concept, technology of control, and tool for diversity work.
Willful Subjects
- Author : Sara Ahmed
- Publisher : Duke University Press
- Release Date : 2014-07-28
- ISBN : 9780822376101
In Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. One history of will is a history of attempts to eliminate willfulness from the will. Delving into philosophical and literary texts, Ahmed examines the relation between will and willfulness, ill will and good will, and the particular will and general will. Her reflections shed light on how will is embedded in a political and cultural landscape, how it is embodied, and how will and
Thinking Queerly
- Author : David Ross Fryer
- Publisher : Routledge
- Release Date : 2015-11-17
- ISBN : 9781317250470
Queer theory and the gay rights movement historically have been in tension, with the former critiquing precisely the identity politics on which the latter relies. Yet neither queer theory, in its predominately poststructuralist form, nor the gay rights movement, with its conservative "inclusionary" aspirations, has adequately addressed questions of identity or the political struggles against normativity that mark the lives of so many queer people. Taking on issues of race, sex, gender, and what he calls "the ethics of identity,"
Assuming a Body
- Author : Gayle Salamon
- Publisher : Columbia University Press
- Release Date : 2010
- ISBN : 9780231149587
Considering questions of transgendered embodiment via phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and queer theory, Gayle Salamon advances an alternative theory of normative and non-normative gender, proving the value and vitality of trans experience for thinking embodiment.
Differences that Matter
- Author : Sara Ahmed
- Publisher : Cambridge University Press
- Release Date : 1998-11-26
- ISBN : 0521597617
New theory of relationship between feminism and postmodernism, using close readings of literature, film, ethics.
Complaint!
- Author : Sara Ahmed
- Publisher : Duke University Press
- Release Date : 2021-09-03
- ISBN : 9781478022336
In Complaint! Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made complaints about harassment, bullying, and unequal working conditions at universities, Ahmed explores the gap between what is supposed to happen when complaints are made and what actually happens. To make complaints within institutions is to learn how they work and for whom they work: complaint as feminist pedagogy.
Film Bodies
- Author : Katharina Lindner
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
- Release Date : 2017-10-16
- ISBN : 9781838608545
The representation of gender and sexuality is well-explored territory in film studies. In Film Bodies, Katharina Lindner takes existing debates into a new direction and integrates queer and feminist theory with film phenomenology. Drawing on a broad range of sources, Lindner explores the female body's presence in a range of genres including the dance film, the sports film and queer cinema. Moving across mainstream and independent cinema, Lindner provides detailed 'textural' analyses of Black Swan, The Tango Lesson, 2 Seconds, Offside,
The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Animals
- Author : Karen Raber,Holly Dugan
- Publisher : Routledge
- Release Date : 2020-08-11
- ISBN : 9781000093438
Shakespeare’s plays have a long and varied performance history. The relevance of his plays in literary studies cannot be understated, but only recently have scholars been looking into the presence and significance of animals within the canon. Readers will quickly find—without having to do extensive research—that the plays are teeming with animals! In this Handbook, Karen Raber and Holly Dugan delve deep into Shakespeare’s World to illuminate and understand the use of animals in his span
The Promise of Happiness
- Author : Sara Ahmed
- Publisher : Duke University Press
- Release Date : 2010-03-16
- ISBN : 9780822392781
The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: “I just want you to be happy”; “I’m happy if you’re happy.” Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by the “happiness duty,” the expectation that we will be made happy by taking part in