Affective intimacies / / edited by Marjo Kolehmainen, Annukka Lahti, Kinneret Lahad.
This volume provides a novel platform to re-evaluate the notion of open-ended intimacies through the lens of affect theories. Contributors address the embodied, affective and psychic, sensorial and embodied aspects of their ongoing intimate entanglements across various timely phenomena. This fascina...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Manchester : : Manchester University Press,, 2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 203 pages) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Affective intimacies - Marjo Kolehmainen, Annukka Lahti and Kinneret Lahad
- Part I: Rethinking affect and intimacy
- 1 'Caring matter': A love story of queer intimacies between (her) body and object (her cigarette) - Dresda E. Mendez de la Brena
- 2 The figure of a regretful mother on an online discussion board - Armi Mustosmaki and Tiina Sihto
- 3 Intimate technology? Teletherapies in the era of COVID-19 - Marjo Kolehmainen
- Part II: The politics of affect: Spatial and societal entanglements
- 4 The empathiser's new shoes: The discomforts of empathy as white feminist affect - Andrea Lobb
- 5 Neighbouring in times of austerity: Intimacy and the 'noikokyrio' - Ilektra Kyriazidou
- 6 Becoming a lesbian at lesbian and gay dance parties: Lesboratories as affective spaces - Tuula Juvonen
- Part III: Queering intimacies: Affective un/becomings
- 7 'Lack' of languages: Affective experiences of female same-sex intimacies in contemporary China - Yiran Wang
- 8 Affective obligations and obliged affections: Non-binary youth and affective (re)orientations to family - Nina Perger
- 9 Affective intimacies of gender assemblages: Closeness and distance in LGBTQ+ women's relationships - Annukka Lahti
- Index.