{"product_id":"affective-intimacies-9781526158567","title":"Affective Intimacies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 fascinating collection asks how the study of affect enables us to rethink intimacies, what affect theories can do to the prevailing notion of intimacy and how they renew and enrich theories of intimacy in a manner which also considers its normative and violent forms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection brings together a selection of original chapters which invite readers to rethink such concepts as care, closeness and connectivity through the notion of affective intimacies. Based on rigorous research, it offers novel insights on a variety of themes from austerity culture to online discussions on regretting motherhood, from anti-ableist notions of health to teletherapies in the era of COVID-19, and from queer intimacies to critiques of empathy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLively and thought-provoking, this collection contributes to timely topics across the social sciences, representing multiple disciplines from gender studies, sociology and cultural studies to anthropology and queer studies. By so doing, it advances the value of interdisciplinary perspectives and creative methodologies for understanding affective intimacies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Affective intimacies – \u003ci\u003eMarjo Kolehmainen, Annukka Lahti and Kinneret Lahad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Rethinking affect and intimacy\u003cbr\u003e1 ‘Caring matter’: A love story of queer intimacies between (her) body and object (her cigarette) – \u003ci\u003eDresda E. Méndez de la Brena\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 The figure of a regretful mother on an online discussion board – \u003ci\u003eArmi Mustosmäki and Tiina Sihto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 Intimate technology? Teletherapies in the era of COVID-19 – \u003ci\u003eMarjo Kolehmainen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: The politics of affect: Spatial and societal entanglements\u003cbr\u003e4 The empathiser’s new shoes: The discomforts of empathy as white feminist affect – \u003ci\u003eAndrea Lobb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 Neighbouring in times of austerity: Intimacy and the ‘noikokyrio’ – \u003ci\u003eIlektra Kyriazidou\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 Becoming a lesbian at lesbian and gay dance parties: Lesboratories as affective spaces – \u003ci\u003eTuula Juvonen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Queering intimacies: Affective un\/becomings\u003cbr\u003e7 ‘Lack’ of languages: Affective experiences of female same-sex intimacies in contemporary China – \u003ci\u003eYiran Wang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8 Affective obligations and obliged affections: Non-binary youth and affective (re)orientations to family – \u003ci\u003eNina Perger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9 Affective intimacies of gender assemblages: Closeness and distance in LGBTQ+ women’s relationships – \u003ci\u003eAnnukka Lahti\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041023426903,"sku":"9781526158567","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526158567.jpg?v=1750948642","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/affective-intimacies-9781526158567","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}