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Mattering

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Description for Mattering Paperback. Editor(s): Pitts-Taylor, Victoria. Series: Biopolitics. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ; JHB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.

Feminists today are re-imagining nature, biology, and matter in feminist thought and critically addressing new developments in biology, physics, neuroscience, epigenetics and other scientific disciplines. Mattering, edited by noted feminist scholar Victoria Pitts-Taylor, presents contemporary feminist perspectives on the materialist or ‘naturalizing’ turn in feminist theory, and also represents the newest wave of feminist engagement with science. The volume addresses the relationship between human corporeality and subjectivity, questions and redefines the boundaries of human/non-human and nature/culture, elaborates on the entanglements of matter, knowledge, and practice, and addresses biological materialization as a complex and open process.
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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Biopolitics
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479845439
SKU
V9781479845439
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99-50

About Victor Pitts-Taylor
Victoria Pitts-Taylor is author of three books, including The Brain’s Body: Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics. She is also Editor of The Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body. She is Professor of Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Science in Society, and Sociology at Wesleyan University.

Reviews for Mattering
The passionate commitment of feminist scholars to rethinking the material world, and to questioning the assumptions behind this grand project, is evident in this skillfully curated collection.
Sari van Anders,Associate Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan This is a wonderful cross-selection of the most recent work on one of the central concept in feminist ... Read more

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