In-between : Latina feminist phenomenology, multiplicity, and the self / Mariana Ortega.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ortega, Mariana, author.

Series:

SUNY series, philosophy and race

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic American women.

Feminists--United States.

Feminists.

United States.

Hispanic or Latino--ethnology.

Women--history.

Feminism--history.

Social Identification.

Medical Subjects:

Hispanic or Latino--ethnology.

Women--history.

Feminism--history.

Social Identification.

Physical Description:

xiii, 281 pages : 1 colour illustration ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, [2016]

Summary:

This original study intertwining Latina feminism, existential phenomenology, and race theory offers a new philosophical approach to understanding selfhood and identity. Focusing on writings by Gloría Anzaldúa, María Lugones, and Linda Martín Alcoff, Mariana Ortega articulates a phenomenology that introduces a conception of selfhood as both multiple and singular. Her Latina feminist phenomenological approach can account for identities belonging simultaneously to different worlds, including immigrants, exiles, and inhabitants of borderlands. Ortega's project forges new directions not only in Latina feminist thinking on such issues as borders, "mestizaje," marginality, resistance, and identity politics, but also connects this analysis to the existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger and to such concepts as being in the world, authenticity, and intersubjectivity. The pairing of the personal and the political in Ortega's work is illustrative of the primacy of lived experience in the development of theoretical understandings of who we are. In addition to bringing to light central metaphysical issues regarding the temporality and continuity of the self, Ortega models a practice of philosophy that draws from work in other disciplines and that recognizes the important contributions of Latina feminists and other theorists of color to philosophical pursuits. Book jacket.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The new mestiza and la nepantlera

Being-between-worlds, being-in-worlds

The phenomenology of world-traveling

World- traveling, double-consciousness, and resistance

Multiplicitous becomings : on identity, horizons, and coalitions

Social location, identity, knowledge, and multiplicity

Hometactics

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438459776

1438459777

OCLC:

908287035