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Book SynopsisChristian theology has been complicit in justifying the war on women, but it also has resources to help finally declare peace in the war on women. War itself has come to resemble the war on women, and thus strategies to end the war on women, supported by new Christian theological interpretations, will also help end today's endless wars.Trade Review“Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite sets out to address the ways in which Western models of war and peace affect the global War on Women. … the book is certainly an accessible read for people from a variety of social locations and interest levels … . This book is entirely rooted in culture, lived experience, historical understanding, and, above all, it offers a hopeful roadmap for praxis that will lead to a life-giving future for all.” (Katie Deaver, Christian Feminism Today, eewc.com, March, 2016)"Reverend Thistlethwaite makes an important contribution to the current debate on the wars we are waging and how they effect violence against women. Her treatment of Christian notions of "just war" makes this book essential reading for those who are motivated by Jesus' words: 'Blessed are the peacemakers.'" - Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, co-founder of The Carter Center "In this very important new book, Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite argues that war and violence against women have some of the same social, cultural, and religious roots. Women's Bodies as Battlefield is a very significant critical intervention in the public discourses on the war on women a must-read for anyone engaged in such conversations. I highly recommend the book." - Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Krister Stendahl Professor, The Divinity School, Harvard University, USA 'With the comprehensive scholarly analysis and complex feminist insight that we have come to expect from Thistlethwaite's work, she reveals the intricate and inextricable relationship of wars fought between nations and the wars fought on women's bodies. To read this book is to be compelled to act against the 'reality of violence in women's lives,' by witnessing against international, national, and domestic wars, for women's bodies are the link between all of them.' - Kelly Brown Douglas, Professor of Religion, Goucher College, USA 'The idea of 'just war' has more often been an excuse than a standard for a real public policy debate about the United States waging war. Thistlethwaite lays the groundwork for a serious critique that includes a gender analysis. It's high time we had this conversation.' - Rev. Dr. Marie M. Fortune, Founder and Senior Analyst, Faith Trust Institute, USA 'Through her luminous idea of "critical physicality," Thistlethwaite rescues the concept of the body from false dualities and misleading theories, and restores to real women's bodies the integrity of their complicated corporeal existence. This brilliant work will force us to reflect on what it means to be a woman on the battlefield of her own body, and how the violence done to real women's real bodies compromises our communities and our very humanity.' - Michael Eric Dyson, University Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University, USA 'For every ethical person who cares about the global scourge of violence, this comprehensive guide to the religious roots and cultural and social dimensions of the war on women is a must-read.' - Rita Nakashima Brock, PhD, co-author of Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury after War 'Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite suggests that 'theology begins where the pain is.' She makes critical connections between the war on women and our society's continued lust for violence.' - Rev. Michael Neuroth, Minister, United Church of Chris, USA, and Policy Advocate for International Issues, Justice and Witness Ministries Office, United Church of Christ, USATable of ContentsIntroduction1: Injuring: Bodies and Battlefields2: Injuring: Women's Bodies in the War on Women3: The History of Theologies of the Body: Sexism and Militarism4: Looking Away: The Heroic Fiction of War5: Looking Away: The Erotic Fiction of the War on Women6: Just War: Authorizing the Injuries7: Just War: Conducting the Injuries 8: Just Peace: Practice Without Embodiment9: Just Peace: Bodies at the Center10: Toward An Embodied Theology of Peace

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Book SynopsisThrough original interviews and research, Llewellyn uses spirituality to uncover new commonalities between the second and third feminist waves, and sacred and secular experiences. Her lively approach highlights the importance of reading cultures in feminist studies, connecting women's voices across generations, literary practices, and religions.Trade Review"Through an engaging approach that moves beyond imagined readers and assumptions about Christian and post-Christian feminism, Reading, Spirituality, and Feminism: Troubling the Waves demonstrates how women are actively constructing feminist spirituality through their diverse reading practices. By focusing on women's reading strategies, Llewellyn challenges typical conceptions of feminism, exposes the limits of feminist theologians' work, and highlights the possibilities for connection across generational, disciplinary, and religious divides." - Lynn S. Neal, Associate Professor of Religion, Wake Forest University, USA and author of Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction "Reading is vital to the spiritual lives of many women. Llewellyn's absorbing book shows how Christian and post-Christian women 'filter' their sacred texts, mining them for meanings that affirm their identities and relationships. Not just a fascinating study of women's spiritual reading, the book also calls for a conversation across the feminist waves and between secular gender studies and feminist theology." - Kristin Aune, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Trust, Peace & Social Relations, Coventry University, UK and co-author of Reclaiming the F Word: The New Feminist Movement "Llewellyn's creative and inspiring work breaks new ground by focusing upon the everyday reading practices of women and provides unique insights into the processes of personal transformation that have been engendered by literary texts. This book is theoretically astute and offers a sophisticated analysis of the role of literature within changing feminist cultures. It is also engaging, perceptive, insightful, and full of memorable narratives and the kind of attention to contextual detail that brings research to life." - Heather Walton, Senior Lecturer of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Glasgow, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Reading, Feminism, and Spirituality 2. Talking in Waves: A Generational and Secular Metaphor 3. Filtering the Canon 4. Reading for Difference 5. Reading for Community Conclusion: Keep On Troubling the Waves Appendix A: Methodology and Method: Reader-Centered Feminist Research Appendix B: Readers Profiles Appendix C: Groups, Networks, and Organizations

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Book SynopsisWith a new foreword by Moira Donegan, this long-awaited reissue of Dworkin's iconic study of women in American conservatism is paired with a bold, modern package to match Dworkin's visionary perspective and style.Andrea Dworkin wrote Right-Wing Women in 1983-a crucial and deeply illuminating analysis of the right's position on abortion, homosexuality, antisemitism, female poverty, and antifeminism. Forty years later, the book feels more vibrant, clear-eyed, and visionary than ever, especially as these issues get relitigated in both legal and public forums. In addition to her revelatory and nuanced portraits of figures like Anita Bryant and Phyllis Schlafly, and an examination of the roots of a distinctly woman-led brand of American conservatism, Right-Wing Women will give readers the thrill of rediscovering the force and elegance of Dworkin's arguments and her skill as one of our most adept and prophetic feminist thinkers.

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Book SynopsisA new novel about art, love, death, and time from the author of Motherhood and How Should a Person Be?Here we are, just living in the first draft of creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart.In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home for school. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira's chest like a portalto what, she doesn't know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and she enters the strange and dizzying dimension that true loss opens up.Pure Colour tells the story of a life, from beginning to end. It is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and a shape-shifting epic. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.

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Book SynopsisHannah Arendt's (1906-1975) writings, both in public magazines and in her important books, are still widely studied today. She made original contributions in political thinking that still astound readers and critics alike. The subject of several films and numerous books, colloquia, and newspaper articles, Arendt remains a touchstone in innumerable debates about the use of violence in politics, the responsibility one has under dictatorships and totalitarianism, and how to combat the repetition of the horrors of the past. The Bloomsbury Companion to Arendt offers the definitive guide to her writings and ideas, her influences and commentators, as well as the reasons for her lasting significance, with 66 original essays taking up in accessible terms the myriad ways in which one can take up her work and her continuing importance. These essays, written by an international set of her best readers and commentators, provides a comprehensive coverage of her life and the contexts in which her worTrade ReviewThis volume explores many of the “thought trains” central to Arendt’s understanding of modernity. Essays on dozens of topics invite readers to think about politics, birth, truth, and power in light of Arendt’s profound reflections on those topics. While Arendt found “truth” elusive, she thought we were obliged to “think about what we are doing”, the authors of these essays help us to shoulder that task. * Johanna Meehan, McCay-Casady Professor of Humanities, Grinnell College, USA *Diverse, accessible, and highly impressive in its scope, this compelling volume will doubtless become essential reading both for established scholars of Arendt’s work and for new readers. Effectively showcasing the urgency and vitality of Arendt’s writings, it strikes the perfect balance between enriching current conversations and presenting new directions for Arendt scholarship. * Danielle Sands, Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on contributors Editor’s Introduction, Peter Gratton and Yasemin Sari Part I: Sources, Influences, and Encounters 1. Arendt and the Roman Tradition, Dean Hammer 2. Concepts of love in Augustine, Charles Synder 3. Thomas Hobbes: the emancipation of the political-economic, Peg Birmingham 4. Arendt, Montesquieu, and the spirits of politics, Lucy Cane 5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s sovereign intimacy, Peg Birmingham 6. Arendt and Kant’s moral philosophy, Robert Burch 7. Arendt and Kant’s categorical imperative, William Clohesy 8. Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx: beyond the human condition, Tama Weisman 9. Max Weber: methodology, action, and politics, Philip Walsh 10. Phenomenology: Arendt’s politics of appearance, Peter Gratton 11. Martin Heidegger: love and the world, Jennifer Gaffney 12. Karl Jaspers, Arendt, and the love of citizens, Ian Storey 13. Isaiah berlin: liberty, liberalism, and anti-totalitarianism, Kei Hiruta 14. Arendt and America, Richard H. King 15. Franz Kafka and Arendt: pariahs in thought, Ian Storey 16. Walter Benjamin and Arendt: a relation of sorts, Andrew Benjamin 17. Merleau-Ponty: hiding, showing, being, Kascha Semonovitch 18. Arendt and critical theory: impossible friends, Rick Elmore 19. Arendt and the New York intellectuals, Richard H. King Part II: Key Writings 20. Love and st. Augustine, Charles Snyder 21. Rahel Varnhagen, Samir Gandesha 22. The origins of totalitarianism, Richard Bernstein 23. The human condition, Peter Gratton 24. Eichmann in Jerusalem, Leora Bilsky 25. Between past and future, Emily Zakin 26. On revolution, Robert Fine 27. Lectures on Kant’s political philosophy, Matthew wester 28. The life of the mind, Robert Burch Part III: themes and topics Ontology 29. Arendt and appearance, Jeremy Elkins 30. Arendt on the activity of thinking, Wout Cornelissen 31. Judaism in the human condition, Bonnie Honig 32. Life and human plurality, Dianna Taylor 33. Natality and the birth of politics, Anne O’Byrne 34. Place: the familiar table and chair, Peter f. Cannavò 35. Plurality, Catherine Kellogg 36. The right to have rights, Yasemin Sari 37. Truth, Ronald Beiner 38. Two-in-one, Robert Burch Politics 39. Artificial equality: procedural, epistemic, and performative, Yasemin Sari 40. Arendt and Ecological politics, Kerry H. Whiteside 41. Evil, James Bernauer 42. Freedom, Catherine Kellogg 43. Imperialism, Jennifer Gaffney 44. International law: its promise and limits, Natasha Saunders 45. Justice: Arendt in jerusalem and the problem of judgment, Vincent Lefebve 46. Law: nomos and lex, constitutionalism and totalitarianism in Arendt’s thought, Vincent Lefebve 47. On the lost spirit of revolution, Samantha Rose Hill 48. Power, Patrick Hayden 49. Radical democracy within limits, Andrew Schaap 50. Reconciliation, Roger Berkowitz 51. Responsibility, Phillip Nelson 52. The sensus communis and common sense: the worldly, affective sense of judging spectators, Peg Birmingham 53. Sovereignty, Christian Volk 54. Violence: illuminating its political meaning and limits, Maša Mrovlje Society 55. Arendt’s alteration of tone, Susannah Gottlieb 56. Art and performance, Cecilia Sjöholm 57. Biopolitics: racing and “managing” human populations, Dianna Taylor 58. The “conscious pariah”: beyond identity and difference, Samir Gandesha 59. Education: Arendt against the politicization of the university, Peter Baehr 60. Expropriation: the loss of land as place in the world, James Barry, Jr 61. Arendt and Feminism, Julian Honkasalo 62. Labor: the liberation and the rise of the life society, James Barry, Jr 63. Narrative, Adriana Caverero 64. Political philosophy of science: from cosmos to power, Eve Seguin 65. Arendt on Race and Racism, Grayson Hunt 66. The stateless: the logic of the camp, Samir Gandesha 67. World alienation and the search for home in Arendt’s philosophy, David Macauley Index

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Book SynopsisThe Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice investigates the widely debated, deeply flawed yet influential concept of the uncanny through the lens of feminist theory and contemporary art practice. Not merely a subversive strategy but a cipher of the fraught but fertile dialogue between feminism and psychoanalysis, the uncanny makes an ideal vehicle for an arrangement marked by ambivalence and acts as a constant reminder that feminism and psychoanalysis are never quite at home with one another.The Feminist Uncanny begins by charting the uncanniness of femininity in foundational psychoanalytic texts by Ernst Jentsch, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and Mladen Dolar, and contextually introduces a range of feminist responses and appropriations by Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva and Sarah Kofman, among others. The book also offers thematically organised interpretations of famous artworks and practices informed by feminism, including Judy Chicago's Dinner Party, Faith RinTrade ReviewA powerful feminist critique of not only the home, but a number of borders and boundaries. -- Oxford Art JournalThe Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice provides a much needed remedy of the Freudian uncanny for a feminist art history. Kokoli’s intertextual coupling of ‘woman’ and the ‘unhomely’ unhinges the uncanny from castration and propagates it in a novel series of ‘domestic’ spheres in work by women artists and collectives. Whether in the postal art of Feministo or the paraconceptualism of Susan Hiller, Kokoli’s feminist uncanny transforms homelessness into a home which is strange, subversive and revels in its ambivalence. The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice is set to become a core curriculum text. -- Maria Walsh, Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory, University of the Arts London, UKThis book is an essential reading for anyone interested in the productive yet troubling collaboration and contradictions between feminism and the theoretical apparatus of psychoanalysis. Kokoli proposes the feminist uncanny as the site of this critical encounter, exploring the multiple definitions of the concept and offering new readings of prominent feminist artworks as well as less well known projects. -- Mo Throp, Researcher and PhD Supervisor, University of the Arts London, UKIn The Feminist Uncanny, Alexandra Kokoli brings the psychoanalytic and political registers of domestic space into tension through a new dialogue of the uncanny with feminist artistic practices. Offering the reader deeper insights into the unsettling nature inherent in such practices of resistance and liberation, Kokoli makes an important original contribution to contemporary feminist scholarship. -- August Jordan Davis, Senior Research Fellow, University of Southampton, UKIn this fascinating book, Alexandra Kokoli pursues the thread of the ‘uncanny’, taking it from Freud through interlocking and mutually interrogating layers of theory, to reveal its potential in feminist fine art. The heterogeneous range of art work engaged with enables Kokoli to expose and examine the broader, subversive significance of the ‘feminist uncanny’, opening up an innovative, unsettling and rewarding approach to feminist fine art practices. -- Sue Tate, Research Fellow, University of the West of England and Freelance Art Historian, UKAlexandra Kokoli’s The Feminist Uncanny is a smart and engaging re-evaluation of the long-standing troubled relationship between feminism and psychoanalysis, and its complex manifestation in feminist art practice. Kokoli not only offers a series of deft analyses of the diverse provocations made by this genealogy but, focusing on the marginal yet powerful spaces of femininity within culture, rethinks the feminist calling card that the ‘personal is political’. -- Joanne Morra, Reader in Art History and Theory, University of the Arts London, UKTable of ContentsTOC Introduction: Why Witches? Part 1 (‘Theory’) Chapter 1: The Uncanny Feminine Chapter 2: The Feminist Uncanny Part 2 (‘Practice’) Chapter 3: ‘Moving Sideways’ and Other Dead Metaphors: Susan Hiller’s Paraconceptualism Chapter 4: Squats and Evictions: The Uncanny as Unhomely Chapter 5: Dinner Parties: Eating Out, Coming Together Chapter 6: Legions (‘For we are many’) Chapter 7: Family Albums: World Making as Compensation Postscript A: The Academic One Postscript B: The Melancholic One Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMathilde Cohen is Professor of Law and the Robert D. Glass Research Scholar at the University of Connecticut, USA. Cohen is a Research Fellow at the CNRS, France.Yoriko Otomo is Senior Lecturer in Law at SOAS, University of London, UK. She was recently a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Global History, University of Oxford, UK and a Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia.Trade ReviewMaking Milk proves through its carefully researched and detail-oriented descriptions to be a helpful resource to those wanting an understanding of what milk has been over time and place, for whom it is intended, the problematic issues behind how it functions symbolically in modern societies, and finally, suggestions on how to view milk going forward. * FoodAnthropology *Making Milk is an ambitious, fascinating, and often disturbing read … It is also a hopeful read, one that offers readers a glimpse beyond the world we currently live in, beyond the Gilead of our past and of our present, and into a future beyond patriarchy, exploitation, and oppression, a future where new ways of relating with each other--men and women, humans and other animals--are possible, if we only dare to create them. * Hypatia *Editors Mathilde Cohen and Yoriko Otomo assemble a provocative collection of strong interdisciplinary scholarship to explore milk’s material, affective, historical, semantic, symbolic and economic relations. * LSE Review of Books *This book will introduce you to some of today’s most exciting and creative food studies scholars as they take on the topic of milk. Each chapter approaches the topic from a different theoretical lens. The results are a series of deep and multifaceted looks at this endlessly fascinating and complex food. * E. Melanie DuPuis, Pace University, USA, and author of Nature's Perfect Food (2002) *Milk is a political issue. These eloquent essays reveal the contentious cultural, economic, and symbolic meanings of milk from the middle ages to the posthuman world. They are a riveting account of a fluid that many of us take for granted. I was enchanted, shocked, and intrigued. * Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. *Of the many foods ingested by humans, milk is the most laden with significance, as well as the most biochemically complex. This collection explores these layers of meaning from political, economic, environmental, symbolic and spiritual perspectives — encompassing the milk of humans, other animals, and plants. Each essay is a thoughtful provocation which reframes our understanding of this profoundly relational substance and increases our respect for those who produce it. * Fiona Giles, University of Sydney, Australia, and author of Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breasts (2003) *A welcome addition to strong cultural scholarship of milk. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. -- J. M. Deutsch, Drexel University * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Contributors Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Drinking Milk: Histories and Representations 1. More than Food: Animals, Men, and Supernatural Lactation in Occidental Late Middle Ages, Chloé Maillet (Musée du quai de Branly, France) 2. Feminized Protein: Meaning, Representations, and Implications, Carol J. Adams (independent scholar, USA) 3. Growing a Nation: Milk Consumption in India since the Raj, Andrea S. Wiley (Indiana University, USA) Part Two: Making Milk: Technologies and Economies 4. Unreliable Matriarchs, Melanie Jackson (UCL, University of London, UK) and Esther Leslie (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) 5. The Mechanical Calf: On the Making of a Multispecies Machine, Richie Nimmo (University of Manchester, UK) 6. Milk, Adulteration, Disgust: Making Legal Meaning, Yofi Tirosh (Tel Aviv University, Israel) and Yair Eldan (Ono Academic College, Israel) 7. Markets in Mothers’ Milk: Virtue, Vice, Promise, or Problem?Julie P. Smith (Australian National University, Australia) Part Three: Queering Milk: Male Feeding and Plant Milk 8. The Lactating Man, Mathilde Cohen (University of Connecticut, USA) 9. “Cow’s Milk is for Calves, Breastmilk is for Babies.” Alfred Bosworth’s Reconstituted Milk and the Women who Innovated Infant Feeding Amid an American Health Crisis, Hannah Ryan (Cornell University, USA) 10. Plant Milk: From Obscurity to Visions of a Post-Dairy Society, Tobias Linné (Lund University, Sweden) and Ally McCrow-Young (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 11. Critical Ecofeminism: Milk Fauna and Flora, Greta Gaard (University of Wisconsin-River Falls, USA) Part Four: Thinking about Plant Milk 12. Milk and Meaning: Puzzles in Posthumanist Method, Jessica Eisen (Harvard Law School, USA) 13. DIY Plant Milk: A Recipe-Manifesto and Method of Ethical Relations, Care, and Resistance, Matilda Arvidsson (Lund University, Sweden) Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWillow Verkerk is a Lecturer in Continental Philosophy and Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada and a researcher with the Gendered Mimesis Project at KU Leuven, Belgium.Trade ReviewNietzsche valued friendship, and this pioneering study shows how Nietzsche’s own discussion of friendship is absolutely crucial for understanding his philosophy. Through a very careful and perceptive reading of Nietzsche’s texts, Verkerk argues that Nietzsche’s ideas about friendship are empowering – and in this way she makes a strong case for the relevance of Nietzsche’s thought in contemporary debates concerning friendship, gender relations, and love. * Richard White, Professor of Philosophy, Creighton University, USA *“We were friends and have become estranged. (…) We are two ships each of which has its goal and course. (…) Perhaps we shall meet again but fail to recognize each other: our exposure to different seas and suns has changed us!”, says Nietzsche in The Gay Science. Attentive to all possible meanings of such a change, Verkerk explores with remarkable scrutiny the singular destiny of friendship, which reveals its metamorphic power only after it has died — posthumous birth of new identities. -- Catherine Malabou, Professor of Philosophy, Kingston University, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Nietzsche’s Literary Gift of Friendship: Reading Nietzsche as a Joyful, Agonistic, and Bestowing Friend Chapter 2: Nietzsche’s Re-evaluation of Friendship Chapter 3: On Becoming What One Is: Nietzsche’s Therapeutic Concept of the Self Chapter 4: Nietzsche and Aristotle on Character, Virtue, and the Limits of Friendship Chapter 5: Women, Love, and the Gendered Troubles of Friendship in Nietzsche and Irigaray Chapter 6: Abducting Woman? An Agonistic Reception of Nietzsche’s (and Derrida’s) Gifts Conclusion: Further Re-evaluations Notes References Index

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Book Synopsis   From admired historian—and coiner of one of feminism's most popular slogans—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich comes an exploration of what it means for women to make history.   In 1976, in an obscure scholarly article, Ulrich wrote, Well behaved women seldom make history.  Today these words appear on t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, greeting cards, and all sorts of Web sites and blogs.  Ulrich explains how that happened and what it means by looking back at women of the past who challenged the way history was written.  She ranges from the fifteenth-century writer Christine de Pizan, who wrote The Book of the City of Ladies, to the twentieth century’s Virginia Woolf, author of A Room of One's Own.  Ulrich updates their attempts to reimagine female possibilities and looks at the women who didn't try to make history but did.  And she concludes by showing how the 1970s activists who created second-wave

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Book SynopsisLuce Irigaray is Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. A doctor of philosophy, Luce Irigaray is also trained in linguistics, philology, psychology and psychoanalysis. Now acknowledged as a key influential thinker of our times, her work focuses on the culture of two subjects, masculine and feminine - particularly through the liberation of a feminine subjectivity - something she explores in a range of literary forms, from the philosophical to the scientific, the political and the poetic.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements \ 1. Introduction: The Ecstasy of the Between-Us \ 2. When Life Still Was \ 3. A Being Created Without Regard for His Being Born \ 4. The Wandering of Man \ 5. Between Myth and History: The Tragedy of Antigone \ 6. The Return

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Book SynopsisOffers a feminist introduction to Gilles Deleuze's work on cinema that proposes a way of thinking about the cinematic viewing experience by exploring it as a bodily and emotional experience. This book introduces Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concept of the assemblage and uses it to understand the relationship between film and viewer.Trade ReviewA highly readable feminist introduction to Deleuze's Cinema volumes by foregrounding the bodily and affective nature of the cinematic viewing experience ... Rizzo's book is undoubtedly a valuable contribution to both Deleuze and feminist film studies -- Sergey Toymentsey * Film Criticism *[An] accessible and interesting book ... [Deleuze and Film] provides a compelling method for identifying films that challenge static gender categories. As such, the book will doubtless be a useful tool for feminist researchers wanting to pursue questions of spectatorship -- Janice Loreck, Monash University, Australia * New Review of Film and Television Studies *‘Both an accessible introduction to Deleuze's cinema philosophy and a major advance in feminist film theory, this is a tour de force of lucid and creative thought. Rizzo's focus on the body of the viewer provides a provocative reconfiguration of Deleuze's cinematic taxonomy while opening lines of inquiry beyond the psychoanalytic models and theories of spectatorship currently dominant in film theory. An essential contribution to the field.' -- Ronald Bogue, Distinguished Research Professor at University of Georgia, USA and author of Deleuze on Cinema (Routledge)‘In Deleuze and Film: A Feminist IntroductionTeresa Rizzo presents us with a ‘third Deleuze', that is a Deleuze who is a cineaste and a feminist. In this way we are given not only a new and rich introduction to Deleuze's thinking and writing on film, but also a provocative rethinking of his work from the perspectives of gender and film-making. This is an important intervention into the growing body of work on the intersection between Deleuze and cinema.' -- Ian Buchanan, Editor of Deleuze StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Cinematic Apparatus and the Transcendental Subject; 2. Re-thinking Representation: New Lines of Thought in Feminist Philosophy; 3. Cinematic Assemblages: An Ethological Approach to Film-viewing; 4. The Slasher Film: A Deleuzian Feminist Analysis; 5. The Alien Series: Alien-Becomings, Human-Becomings; 6. The Molecular Poetics of the Assemblage: Before Night Falls; Conclusion: A Feminist Cinematic Assemblage; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisBolette Blaagaard is Assistant Professor of Communications at the Department of Communications and Psychology at Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark, and honorary visiting fellow at the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism at City University, London. Iris van der Tuin is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Philosophy of Science in the Graduate Gender Programme of Utrecht University, the Netherlands.Trade ReviewWhere on our bookshelves are Rosi Braidotti’s works — Spinoza, French philosophy, feminism or in a category of their own? For those of us who have followed Rosi’s nomadic pathway from analytic philosophy through currents of feminism to post-humanism, this book reminds us not just of her passionate engagement with ideas but also of the impact of her personality. The sheer breadth of her scholarship and her sympathies is mediated by her ability to inform and inspire. The essays here range over her interests and draw us in yet again to the debates close to her heart. -- Professor Christina Slade, Vice-Chancellor, Bath Spa University, UKJump, stitch, dance, embrace, repel, think, listen, play, sculpt, write, laugh, repair, resist, read and read again, talk, yearn, leap, build, compose and decompose—all of these only hint at the transformational materialist feminist practice offered to us by and with Rosi Braidotti. Her experiential nomadic ethics position us to move with, through, and for worlds that might yet be less lethal, richer, more attuned to the affectivities of fleshy difference of situated human and more-than-human subjects. The Subject of Rosi Braidotti draws me into its tissues with the same kind of verve that Braidotti herself exemplifies in her performances, writings, activisms, and bodily vitalities. Braidotti reconfigures what and whom she touches; she is a practitioner of feminist transpositions, metamorphoses, and transductions. I know because she has transformed me again and again. The many essays in this book pulsate with the energies—conceptual, political, and affectional—that Braidotti gives us. -- Donna Haraway, Distinguished Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness Department, University of California at Santa Cruz, USARosi Braidotti has been a dynamic presence on the global philosophical stage for over three decades. The extent of her work and influence is reflected in this fine collection of essays by an international array of philosophers, historians, humanities and social science scholars, gender and feminist theorists and activists who have followed her critical and creative engagement with the question of the subject and who in these pages collectively engage the process of becoming-subject that is Rosi Braidotti. -- Alan D. Schrift, F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy, Grinnell College, USAAs a writer and a person, Rosi Braidotti encountered some of the most significant intellectual forces of the late twentieth century, including feminism, poststructuralism and posthumanist thought. These encounters were always transformative in both directions, nowhere more so than in her engagements with Deleuze’s philosophy. The gust of wind that I first encountered in Paris in 1977 became a whirlwind that swept new ideas and activism across the academic landscape and continues to do so. This volume is a fitting tribute to an extraordinary life and work still underway. * Scientia Professor Paul Patton, University of New South Wales *Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Acknowledgements Prelude Introduction Iris van der Tuin (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) and Bolette Blaagaard (Aalborg University, Denmark) Part I: The Concept of the Posthuman 1. Reflections on Ethics, Destructiveness, and Life: Rosi Braidotti and the Posthuman Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley, USA) 2. Killing in a Posthuman World: The Philosophy and Practice of Critical Military History Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck College, UK) 3. The Future of Scenarios: State Science Fiction Peter Galison (Harvard University, USA) 4. Living in Molecular Times Henrietta Moore (Jesus College, Cambridge University, UK) 5. Imagining Posthumanities, Enlivening Feminisms Cecilia Åsberg (Linkoping University, Sweden) 6. Transplanting Life: Bios and Zoë in Images with Imagination Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) italics 7. Disaster Feminism Claire Colebrook (Penn State University, USA) 8. Pro-Proteus: The Transpositional Teratology of Rosi Braidotti Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) 9. Reading Rosi Braidotti: Returning to Transpositions Clare Hemmings (London School of Economics, UK) italics Interlude 10. Patterns of (Dis)appearance Natascha Unkart (independent photographer, Vienna) 11. Encountering the Nomadic Subject with a Smile Piet van de Kar (independent sculptor, Amsterdam) Part II: The Politics of the Academic 12. On Generation(s) Luisa Passerini (European University Institute in Florence, Italy and Columbia University, NY, USA) 13. Rosi Braidotti and the Affirmation of European Women’s Studies: Points of No Return Aino-Maija Hiltunen (Hilma—Network for Gender Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland), Annamaria Tagliavini (Director of Biblioteca Italiana delle Donne, IT) and Berteke Waaldijk (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) 14. For a Babyboomer Philosopher Nadia Setti (University of Paris 8, France) 15. The Subject in Question Martine Menès (L’Ecole de Psychanalyse des Forums du Champ lacanien and Collège de clinique psychanalytique, Paris, France) 16. Between Two Worlds: Nomadism and the Passion of an Encounter Maria Serena Sapegno (Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy) 17. Transposing NOISE and Voice Rosemarie Buikema (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) and Nina Lykke (Linköping University, Sweden) 18. Nomadic Encounters: Turning Difference Toward Dialogue Kelsey Henry (Wesleyan University, USA), Iveta Jusová(Antioch University, USA) and Joy Westerman (Knox College, USA) 19. On Farming the Liberal Arts Catharine R. Stimpson (NYU, USA) 20.… R.B. to Life Chrysanthi Nigianni (University of East London, UK) 21. Nomadic Subjects and the Feminist Archives Lisa Baraitser(Birkbeck, University of London, UK) Part III: The Ethics of the Nomad 22. Nomadic Subjects and Asylum Seekers Genevieve Lloyd (University of New South Wales, Australia) 23. Translating Selves: On Polyglot Cosmopolitanism Sandra Ponzanesi (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) 24. Nomadic Theory as an Epistemology for Transnational Feminist History Chiara Bonfiglioli (University of Edinburgh, UK) 25. The Struggle for Europe Rutvica Andrijasevic (Leicester University, UK) 26. Law’s Nomadic Subjects: Towards a Micropolitics of Post-Human Rights Patrick Hanafin (Birkbeck College, UK) 27. Collaboration* Gregg Lambert (Syracuse University, USA) Postlude 28. The Untimely Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) Rosi Braidotti Bibliography 1980-2013 Index

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