Feminist Materialisms
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Recent papers in Feminist Materialisms
Bringing together the work of Barad and Deleuze, this article develops the concept of the living present as a frame for an emerging feminist temporality. Within feminist and queer theories, there has been much discussion of the value of... more
In the dominant “climate change” imaginary, this phenomenon is distant and abstracted from our experiences of weather and the environment in the privileged West. Moreover, climate change discourse is saturated mostly in either neoliberal... more
The film "Inch'Allah" by the Canadian director Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette presents at first shame as signifying neutrality, incapacity of being "contaminated" by the affect of the other. Paradoxically, as the plot evolves, shame becomes... more
Tripwire: A Journal of Poetics, Dialogues Issue 13 (see link for free full .pdf of all contributors' work)
Judith Butler's analysis of “corporeal matters” offers an exemplary account of the hidden political agenda within the very grain of representation and discourse. This essay, however, argues that “language” and its political implications... more
Following the ‘material turn’ feminist theatre and performance scholars have begun to engage with questions of matter and materiality and their potential for feminist world-making. This often means acknowledging the vitality (Bennett) or... more
[Open Access: http://phaenex.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/phaenex/article/view/4394/3875] Do ecofeminism and new materialism share common features? In ecofeminist literature’s concern for the nonhuman, one could foresee feminist... more
In Quantum Anthropologies, the renowned feminist theorist Vicki Kirby contends that some of the most provocative aspects of deconstruction have yet to be explored. Deconstruction’s implications have been curtailed by the assumption that... more