Working with affect in feminist readings
Subtitle: disturbing differences
By: Marianne Liljeström and Susanna Paasonen.
Contributors: Paasonen, Susanna, 1975-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780415481397; 9780203885925
Subjects: Affect (Psychology); Feminism
Description: "'Working with Affect in Feminist Readings: Disturbing Differences' explores the place and function of affect in feminist knowledge production, investigating what it means to work with and through affect, as well as the kinds of ethical and methodological challenges that this involves."--Publisher's information.
Table of contents: title: An affective turn? Reimagining the subject of feminist theory / Anu Koivunen; title: Creating disturbance : feminism, happiness and affective differences / Sara Ahmed; title: A sense of play : affect, emotion, and embodiment in world of warcraft / Jenny Sundén; title: Disturbing, fleshy texts : close looking at pornography / Susanna Paasonen; title: Expanding laughter : affective viewing, body image incongruity and fat actress / Katariina Kyrölä; title: Daughters of privilege : class, sexuality, affect and the Gilmore Girls / Leena-Maija Rossi; title: Differences disturbing identity : Deleuze and feminism / Elizabeth Grosz; title: Nomadic bodies, transformative spaces : affective encounters with Indian spirituality / Johanna Ahonen; title: Hips don't lie : affective and kinaesthetic dance ethnography / Anu Laukkanen; title: Ethics of empathy and reading in Shani Mootoo's cereus blooms at night / Elina Valovirta; title: Beyond redemption? Mobilizing affect in feminist Reading / Lynne Pearce; title: Crossing the east-west divide : feminist affective dialogues / Marianne Liljeström; title: Working with affect in the corporate university / Melissa Gregg.