Mattering : : Feminism, Science, and Materialism /

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

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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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MitwirkendeR:
Barla, Josef,
Bradley, Kym,
Clare, Stephanie,
Gabrielson, Teena,
Gill-Peterson, Julian,
Hatch, Anthony Ryan,
Kaiser, Anelis,
Kosut, Mary,
Mauthner, Natasha S.,
Meißner, Hanna,
Moore, Lisa Jean,
Oyama, Susan,
Pitts-Taylor, Victoria,
Rosengarten, Marsha,
Roy, Deboleena,
Schmitz, Sigrid,
Subramaniam, Banu,
Vertommen, Sigrid,
Weasel, Lisa H.,
Wirth-Cauchon, Janet,
HerausgeberIn:
Pitts-Taylor, Victoria,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Biopolitics ; 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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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: Feminist New Materialism and the Practices of Colonialism
  • 2. New Material Feminisms and Historical Materialism: A Diffractive Reading of Two (Ostensibly) Unrelated Perspectives
  • 3 On the Politics of “New Feminist Materialisms”
  • 4. Nonlinear Evolution, Sexual Difference, and the Ontological Turn: Elizabeth Grosz’s Reading of Darwin
  • Part II Nature/Culture in the Twenty-First Century Sciences
  • 5. The Lure of Immateriality in Accounts of Development and Evolution
  • 6. Embodying Intersectionality: The Promise (and Peril) of Epigenetics for Feminist Science Studies
  • 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: Science, Technology, and the Mechanics of Materializing Marked Bodies
  • 10 The Enactment of Intention and Exception through Poisoned Corpses and Toxic Bodies
  • 11. Neurofeminism: An Eco-Pharmacology of Childhood ADHD
  • 12. Female Bodily (Re)Productivity in the Stem Cell Economy: A Cross-Materialist Feminist Approach
  • 13. Prisons Matter: Psychotropics and the Trope of Silence in Technocorrections
  • Part IV New Materialism and Research Practices
  • 14. Urban Api-Ethnography: The Matter of Relations between Humans and Honeybees
  • 15. Un/Re-making Method: Knowing/Enacting Posthumanist Performative Social Research Methods through ‘Diffractive Genealogies’ and ‘Metaphysical Practices’
  • 16. Experimental Subjects Kick Back: A Provocation for an Alternative Causality in Biomedical Research and Bioethics
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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