Queer phenomenology : orientations, objects, others
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...
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| Format: | Livre papier |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Durham ; London :
Duke University press
2006.
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Autre tirage : 2025 |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Sumari: | 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 |
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| Descripció de l’ítem: | Autre tirage : 2025 |
| Descripció física: | 1 volume (IX]-223 pages) : couverture illustrée en couleurs ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliografia: | Bibliographie p. [203]-215. Notes bibliographiques en fin de volume. Index |
| ISBN: | 9780822339144 (br.) 9780822338611 (rel.) |