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6%OFFSara Ahmed - Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others - 9780822339144 - V9780822339144
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Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others

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Description for Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others Paperback. Cultural theorist Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use by analyzing what it means for bodies to be "oriented" in space and time. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 352.
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. ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822339144
SKU
V9780822339144
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99-50

About Sara Ahmed
Sara Ahmed is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her books include The Cultural Politics of Emotion; Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality; and Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism.

Reviews for Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
The aim of Sara Ahmed's dense, stimulating and thought-provoking book is to connect sexual orientation with phenomenology in a way that takes the spatiality of sexuality, gender and race seriously, opening up new questions for the cross-disciplinary audience that should read this book. . . . In the acknowledgment, Sara Ahmed notes that her book was a pleasure to write. ... Read more

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