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Object-oriented feminism / Katherine Behar, editor.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781517901097
  • 9781517901080
Subject(s):
Contents:
An Introduction to OOF
1. A Feminist Object
2. All Objects Are Deviant: Feminism and Ecological Intimacy
3. Allure and Abjection: The Possible Potential of Severed Qualities
4. The World Is Flat and Other Super Weird Ideas
5. Facing Necrophilia, or "Botox Ethics"
6. OOPS: Object- Oriented Psychopathia Sexualis
7. Queering Endocrine Disruption
8. Political Feminist Positioning in Neoliberal Global Capitalism
9. In the Cards: From Hearing "Things" to Human Capital
10. Both a Cyborg and a Goddess: Deep Managerial Time and Informatic Governance
Summary: The essays in this book explore OOF: a feminist intervention into recent philosophical discourses - like speculative realism, object-oriented ontology (OOO), and new materialism - that take objects, things, stuff, and matter as primary. Object-oriented feminism approaches all objects from the inside-out position of being an object too, with all of its accompanying political and ethical potentials. This volume places OOF thought in a long history of ongoing feminist work in multiple disciplines. In particular, object-oriented feminism foregrounds three significant aspects of feminist thinking in the philosophy of things: politics, engaging with histories of treating certain humans (women, people of color, and the poor) as objects; erotics, employing humor to foment unseemly entanglements between things; and ethics, refusing to make grand philosophical truth claims, instead staking a modest ethical position that arrives at being "in the right" by being "wrong." Seeking not to define object-oriented feminism but rather to enact it, the volume is interdisciplinary in approach, with contributors from a variety of fields, including sociology, anthropology, English, art, and philosophy. Topics are frequently provocative, engaging a wide range of theorists from Heidegger and Levinas to Irigaray and Haraway, and an intriguing diverse array of objects, including the female body as fetish object in Lolita subculture; birds made queer by endocrine disruptors; and truth claims arising in material relations in indigenous fiction and film. Intentionally, each essay can be seen as an "object" in relation to others in this collection.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Purple 305.4201 BEH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 09725

Includes bibliographical references.

An Introduction to OOF

1. A Feminist Object

2. All Objects Are Deviant: Feminism and Ecological Intimacy

3. Allure and Abjection: The Possible Potential of Severed Qualities

4. The World Is Flat and Other Super Weird Ideas

5. Facing Necrophilia, or "Botox Ethics"

6. OOPS: Object- Oriented Psychopathia Sexualis

7. Queering Endocrine Disruption

8. Political Feminist Positioning in Neoliberal Global Capitalism

9. In the Cards: From Hearing "Things" to Human Capital

10. Both a Cyborg and a Goddess: Deep Managerial Time and Informatic Governance

The essays in this book explore OOF: a feminist intervention into recent philosophical discourses - like speculative realism, object-oriented ontology (OOO), and new materialism - that take objects, things, stuff, and matter as primary. Object-oriented feminism approaches all objects from the inside-out position of being an object too, with all of its accompanying political and ethical potentials. This volume places OOF thought in a long history of ongoing feminist work in multiple disciplines. In particular, object-oriented feminism foregrounds three significant aspects of feminist thinking in the philosophy of things: politics, engaging with histories of treating certain humans (women, people of color, and the poor) as objects; erotics, employing humor to foment unseemly entanglements between things; and ethics, refusing to make grand philosophical truth claims, instead staking a modest ethical position that arrives at being "in the right" by being "wrong." Seeking not to define object-oriented feminism but rather to enact it, the volume is interdisciplinary in approach, with contributors from a variety of fields, including sociology, anthropology, English, art, and philosophy. Topics are frequently provocative, engaging a wide range of theorists from Heidegger and Levinas to Irigaray and Haraway, and an intriguing diverse array of objects, including the female body as fetish object in Lolita subculture; birds made queer by endocrine disruptors; and truth claims arising in material relations in indigenous fiction and film. Intentionally, each essay can be seen as an "object" in relation to others in this collection.