Mattering : : Feminism, Science, and Materialism / / ed. by Victoria Pitts-Taylor.

Feminists today are re-imagining nature, biology, and matter in feminist thought and critically addressing new developments in biology, physics, neuroscience, epigenetics and other scientific disciplines. Mattering, edited by noted feminist scholar Victoria Pitts-Taylor, presents contemporary femini...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Biopolitics ; 1
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Mattering. Feminism, Science, and Corporeal Politics
  • Part I. Probing New Theories of Matter
  • 1. Matter in the Shadows
  • 2. New Material Feminisms and Historical Materialism
  • 3. On the Politics of “New Feminist Materialisms”
  • 4. Nonlinear Evolution, Sexual Difference, and the Ontological Turn
  • Part II. Nature/Culture in the Twenty-First Century Sciences Part III Biopolitics and Necropolitics
  • 5. The Lure of Immateriality in Accounts of Development and Evolution
  • 6. Embodying Intersectionality
  • 7. Sex/Gender Matters and Sex/Gender Materialities in the Brain
  • 8. The Communicative Phenomenon of Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Part III. Biopolitics and Necropolitics
  • 9. Technologies of Failure, Bodies of Resistance
  • 10. The Enactment of Intention and Exception through Poisoned Corpses and Toxic Bodies
  • 11. Neurofeminism
  • 12. Female Bodily (Re)Productivity in the Stem Cell Economy
  • 13. Prisons Matter
  • Part IV. New Materialism and Research Practices
  • 14. Urban Api-Ethnography
  • 15. Un/Re-Making Method
  • 16. Experimental Subjects Kick Back
  • About the Contributors
  • Index