{"product_id":"entanglements-and-weavings-diffractive-approaches-to-gender-and-love-9789004441453","title":"Entanglements and Weavings: Diffractive Approaches to Gender and Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edited volume focuses on gender and love as emerging through complex “entanglements and weavings”. At a time when constructionist ideas are losing support, we interrogate theoretical paradigms to assess if constructionist notions still hold value or if new approaches are needed to address the effects of materiality and non-human agency. Without claiming any unison or definite answers, we offer situated, agential cuts into gender and love in various discursive-material phenomena, including Biblical and Rabbinic literature, ecosexual performance art, the writings of Ursula Le Guin and Angela Carter, butch identities, Bengali folktales, Ferzan Özpetek’s cinema, Golem literature, sexual pursuits in Danish nightlife, mother-daughter relationships, women warriors in the PKK, and BDSM performances. Artistic photographer Sara Davidmann has contributed to the book with the cover illustration and a creative afterword including seven photographs on the interaction between the photographer, her studio, and LGBTQ+ people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustration   Notes of Contributors     Introduction   Deirdre C. Byrne and Marianne Schleicher    Part  1: Reflections on theory    1 Effects of Materiality in Israelite-Jewish Conceptions of Gender and Love: on a Necessary Synthesis of Constructionist and New Materialist Approaches   Marianne Schleicher    2 For Love of the World: Material Entanglements in Ecosexual Performance   Louis van den Hengel    3 “Yet the old woman will not sleep”: reading Motherhood in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Writing   Deirdre C. Byrne    Part 2: Materiality in creative texts    4 Butch: a Cartography of Desire   Kelly Gardiner    5 Materiality and Agential Women in Animal Bridegroom Fairy Tales from Europe and Bengal   Amrita Chakraborty    6 Becoming-Woman in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve   Wernmei Yong Ade    Part 3: Fluid identities in heterotopic spaces    7 Ferzan Özpetek’s Cinema: a Post-Constructionist Approach to Gender and Love   Dikmen Yakalı-Çamoğlu    8 Love and Monsters: gender, Autonomy and Desire in Modern Golem Literature   Alana Vincent    9 Drinking, Dancing and Hooking Up: young Adults in Sexual Pursuit in Mainstream Nightlife in Denmark   Mie Birk Jensen    Part 4: Social relata    10 Love in Different Climates: love, Care and Practices of Intimacy among Women in Hong Kong and Britain   Stevi Jackson and Petula Sik Ying Ho    11 New Arrangements of Embodiment, Materiality, Love and Gender in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party   Mustafa Kemal Topal    12 Bound and Entangled: masculinities, Embodiment and the Materialisation of Gender in the Sexual Field of the BDSM Club   Serena Petrella    Part 5: Afterword  13 Eve, Adam and the Garden of Earthly Delights   Sara Davidmann     Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210809794903,"sku":"9789004441453","price":112.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/entanglements-and-weavings-diffractive-approaches-to-gender-and-love-9789004441453","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}