Informationen zum Autor Sara Ahmed Klappentext "This is an original and refreshing use of phenomenological theory to address the kinds of questions--about orientations and about how bodies and objects become oriented through their interrelations--that help link it more directly to political and social questions--about gender, sexuality, and race, for example--that have tended to be treated as outside or beyond phenomenological frameworks. This extension and development of phenomenology is a major contribution."--Elizabeth Grosz, author of "The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely" Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowlegments ix Introduction: Find Your Way 1 1. Orientations Toward Objects 25 2. Sexual Orientation 65 3. The Orient and Other Others 109 Conclusion: Disorientation and Queer Objects 157 Notes 181 References 203 Index 227

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Sara Ahmed

Klappentext

"This is an original and refreshing use of phenomenological theory to address the kinds of questions--about orientations and about how bodies and objects become oriented through their interrelations--that help link it more directly to political and social questions--about gender, sexuality, and race, for example--that have tended to be treated as outside or beyond phenomenological frameworks. This extension and development of phenomenology is a major contribution."--Elizabeth Grosz, author of "The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely"

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt

Acknowlegments ix
Introduction: Find Your Way 1

1. Orientations Toward Objects 25
2. Sexual Orientation 65
3. The Orient and Other Others 109
   Conclusion: Disorientation and Queer Objects 157
   Notes 181
   References 203
   Index 227