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Entanglements and weavings : diffractive approaches to gender and love / edited by Deirdre C. Byrne, Marianne Schleicher.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Social Philosophy Series
- Social Philosophy Series ; v.358
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gender identity--Cross-cultural studies.
- Gender identity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2021]
- Summary:
- In this edited volume, authors from multiple academic and creative disciplines interrogate constructionist and new materialist paradigms to assess their adequacy when analysing entanglements and weavings of gender and love in diverse contexts where discursive and material elements intra-act.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Entanglements and Weavings: Diffractive Approaches to Gender and Love
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 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
- 2 For Love of the World: Material Entanglements in Ecosexual Performance
- 3 "Yet the old woman will not sleep": Reading Motherhood in Ursula K. Le Guin's Writings
- Part 2: Materiality in Creative Texts
- 4 Butch: A Cartography of Desire
- 5 Materiality and Agential Women in Animal Bridegroom Fairy Tales from Europe and Bengal
- 6 Becoming-Woman in Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve
- Part 3: Fluid Identities in Heterotopic Spaces
- 7 Ferzan Özpetek's Cinema: a Post-constructionist Approach to Gender and Love
- 8 Love and Monsters: Gender, Autonomy and Desire in Modern Golem Literature
- 9 Drinking, Dancing and Hooking Up: Young Adults in Sexual Pursuit in the Mainstream Nightlife in Denmark
- Part 4: Social Relata
- 10 Love in Different Climates: Love Care and Practices of Intimacy among Women in Hong Kong and Britain
- 11 New Arrangements of Embodiment, Materiality, Love and Gender in the Kurdistan Workers' Party
- 12 Bound and Entangled: Masculinities, Embodiment and the Materialisation of Gender in the Sexual Field of the bdsm Club
- Part 5: Afterword
- 13 Eve, Adam and the Garden of Earthly Delights
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-44146-8
- OCLC:
- 1224363115
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