Displacing darwin and descartes the bodily transgressions of. In the introduction to their material feminisms 2008, stacy alaimo and susan hekman point out, as a caution in the second sentence as it were, that they are aware that they will be sparking intense debate with their return to matter as a concern of gender studies and gender theory. Iota iota iota is a national academic and servicebased womens and gender studies honor society. Stacy alaimo puts scientists, activists, artists, writers, and theorists in conversation, revealing that the state of the planet in the twentyfirst century has radically transformed ethics, politics, and what it means to be human. From transspecies art and queer animals to naked protesting and scientific accounts of fishy humans, exposed argues for feminist posthumanism immersed in strange agencies and scaleshifting ethics.
Drawing on feminist theory, environmental studies, and the sciences, stacy alaimo focuses on transcorporeality, or movement across bodies and nature, which has profoundly altered our sense of self. I appreciate how encouraging and supportive you have been, even providing feedback on my dissertation. Feminist, queer, crip kindle edition by kafer, alison. Alaimo was there also as an honorary inductee to the group. Professor stacy alaimo researches and teaches across the environmental humanities, science studies. Jun 01, 2016 pdf this essay explores the impact of the posthuman turn on ecocriticism. It has been wonderful being welcomed by you into the growing field of distance education. Stacy alaimo despite the tremendous outpouring of scholarship on the body in feminist theory and cultural studies and the simultaneous outpouring of environmental philosophy, criticism, and cultural studies, these two streams of scholarship rarely intermingle. Thinking as the stuff of the world being invited to write for the inaugural issue of ozone. Stacy alaimo university of texas at arlington provocatively poised at the intersections of queer, feminist, disability, environmental, and critical race scholarship and justice movements, this book presents a welcome and necessary meditation on the meaning and temporality of disability. Drawing on feminist theory, environmental studies, and the sciences, stacy alaimo focuses on transcorporeality, or movement across bodies and nature, which has profoundly altered our sense. Box 19035 suite 203 carlisle hall arlington, tx 76019 ph8172722692 fax817 2722718. Drawing on feminist theory, environmental studies, and the sciences, stacy alaimo focuses on transcorporeality, or movement across bodies and nature, which.
Environmental politics and pleasures in posthuman times. From transspecies art and queer animals to naked protesting and scientific accounts of fishy humans, exposed argues for feminist posthumanism immersed in. Stacy mosher learned chinese in hong kong, where she lived for nearly 18 years. Thank you also to the other members of my committee, bentley allen, michael degani, and deborah poole, for their helpful comments. These accounts, in both academic and popular feminist writing, criti cize the. She is the cotranslator of yang jishengs tombstone. Opening with the statement the anthropocene is no time to set things straight, stacy alaimo puts forth potent arguments for a material feminist posthumanism in the chapters that follow.
Exposed calls for an environmental stance in which, rather than operating from an externalized perspective, we think, feel, and act as the very stuff of the world. Stacy alaimo abstract the article argues for a closer relationship between studies about the body, more specifically corporeal feminism, and environmental scholarship in philosophical and cultural. Crucial ethical and political possibilities emerge from this literal contact zone between human corporeality and morethanhuman nature. Matter may appear to be a strange topic for a volume within a series of handbooks on gender. Inundomesticated ground, stacy alaimo issues a bold call to reclaim nature as feminist space. My research examines things that seem to be alien and intimate at the same time. Association for the study of literature and environment. Pdf alaimo trans corporeality for the posthuman glossary. Turkish nature writer hikmet birands burroughsian inward eyes. Without their commitment of time, energy, and intelligence, this conference would not have been possible. Oct 25, 2010 bodily natures considers these questions by grappling with powerful and pervasive material forces and their increasingly harmful effects on the human body.
Her analysis of a remarkable range of feminist writingsas well as of popular journalism, visual arts, television, and filmpowerfully demonstrates that nature has been and continues to be an essential concept for feminist theory and practice. By looking at a broad range of creative and philosophical writings, alaimo illuminates how science, politics, and culture collide, while. Environmental politics and pleasures university of minnesota press, 2016 this book is a rich, very original extension of alaimos influential concept of transcorporeality from her previous scholarship. A longtime journalist, mosher currently works as an editor and translator in brooklyn. Parts about nature final paper university of chicago. A recognition of how posthumans are, on multiple scales, embedded within the material world, enables new forms of activism, such as that of writer and. Opening with the statement the anthropocene is no time to set things straight, stacy alaimo puts forth potent arguments for a material feminist post. Search feminisms matter pdf ebook for download and read online. Again, there are too many good ones to list, but this is a good starting point. Feminisms matter pdf download full pdf read book page. Stacy alaimo 1 my bookmanuscriptinprogress, cartographies of undomesticated ground. Stacy alaimo for her invaluable input throughout the comprehensive exam and dissertation process. The plot takes too long to develop, and when it does its not terribly interesting.
Stacy lawson is a writer, director of red square yoga, and a keyboard activist dedicated to truthful and brave dialogue on difficult topics. Emerging models of materiality in feminist theory stacy alaimo and susan hekman p. The scientific definition of mattersomething with mass and volume that occupies space would suggest that matter is a category for physics, not for gender. Thank you, kevin eason, for being a great friend, colleague, and mentor.
In the chapters that follow, alaimo puts forth potent arguments for a material feminist. Porter, kevin gustafson, stacy alaimo, and johanna smith. The everyday sexism project was founded by writer and activist laura bates in april 2012. Alaimo is currently writing a book entitled composing blue. Dian million american indian studies university of washington. It began life as a website where people could share their experiences of daily, normalized sexism, from street harassment to workplace discrimination to sexual assault and rape.
Her theoretical and literary knowledge helped me consider my dissertation within the larger context of critical theory. Dian million tanana athabascan has been teaching in ais since 2002. Stacy alaimo, annette kolodny, susan bordo, luce irigaray, judith butler, laurel thatcher ulrich, mary wollstonecraft, and many, many more who are my intellectual foremothers and sisters. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading feminist, queer, crip. Tim morris for his encouragement, time, and his thoughtful suggestion that humor has risks. Top ten recent ecocriticism environmental humanities center. Request pdf on may 1, 2012, stacy alaimo and others published sustainable this, sustainable that.
Preliminary investigations for a possible alliance elizabeth grosz. Conference organizers stacy alaimo and jeffrey cohen, and site hosts michael ziser, kristin george bagdanov, rachael dewitt and company. An innovative toolkit designed to prompt new awareness of the risk and potential of living onand withan alarmingly dynamic planetveer ecology is a groundbreaking guide for the twentyfirst century, with the editors asking thirty brilliant thinkers to each propose one verb that stresses the forceful potential of inquiry, weather, biomes, apprehensions, and desires to swerve and sheer. While at johns hopkins, i also gleaned inspiration from seminars and conversation with william connolly, siba grovogui, jennifer culbert, and richard flathman. Impressive in scope, sophistication, and imagination. I read watershed because of stacy alaimo s insightful it seemed so.
I have also served as copresident with stacy alaimo of the association for the study of literature and the environment, the largest and oldest organization for environmental humanities worldwide. Stacy alaimo via karen barad provides a definition of agency that not only fits the agency of mushrooms, but one that provides for their position as a companion species that inter and intra acts with me. Pdf transcorporeal feminisms and the ethical space of. Material feminisms edited by stacy alaimo and susan hekman. Transcorporeality is a posthumanist mode of new materialism and material feminism. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Feminisms matter confronts the major reasons people offer for not being feminists by breaking apart stereotypes of.
Everyday sexism ebook by laura bates 9781466876668. Stacy alaimo is professor of english and core faculty member in environmental. Stacy alaimo 2011, 282, for example, speaks of posthu manist new materialisms when she refers to the intersections and allianc es between these interr elated theoretical discourses. University of texas arlington, department of english p. New materialisms, posthumanism, and unknown futures find, read and cite all the research you. Pdf darwin s radio download full pdf book download. So begins stacy alaimo in her introduction to exposed. Stacy alaimo academic editing books and book series. Recasting nature as feminist space and editor with susan hekmanof material feminisms iup, 2008. Stacy alaimo, transcorporeal feminisms and the ethical space of nature. Nature and feminism in american womens fiction and theory, which argues that nature has served as a crucial imaginative zone for the cultural work of feminism, contains a more extensive discussion of call home the heart and analyses of octavia. I owe them thanks for carving out a literary and intellectual territory and laying the groundwork for myself and other scholars to follow. Stacy alaimo has developed a model of the transcorporeal body that is connected with the environment through.
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