Bodily Natures

Science, Environment, and the Material Self

AvStacy Alaimo

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

Del i serien Indiana University Press (IPS)

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Beskrivning

How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human bodies? What does it mean to be human in these times, with bodies that are inextricably interconnected with our physical world? Bodily Natures considers these questions by grappling with powerful and pervasive material forces and their increasingly harmful effects on the human body. Drawing on feminist theory, environmental studies, and the sciences, Stacy Alaimo focuses on trans-corporeality, or movement across bodies and nature, which has profoundly altered our sense of self. By looking at a broad range of creative and philosophical writings, Alaimo illuminates how science, politics, and culture collide, while considering the closeness of the human body to the environment.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-10-25
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:318 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Indiana University Press (IPS)
Antal sidor:210
Förlag:Indiana University Press
ISBN:9780253222404

Utforska kategorier

Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Stacy Alaimo is Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is author of Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space and editor (with Susan Hekman) of Material Feminisms (IUP, 2008).

Recensioner i media

Alaimo offers new insights into feminist thought and theory. Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self is sure to appeal to many students and scholars of literary studies and critical theory.(New Books in Critical Theory) Bodily Natures showcases the distinctive contribution that an ecocritic can make to the field.(Enviromental Ethics) This is a book that should be read by anyone—scholars, students, readers, and anyone else with a body—for it is a marvelous contribution to environmental thinking and to human culture more broadly. December 1, 2010(American Book Review)

Innehållsförteckning

1. Bodily Natures2. Eros and X-Rays: Bodies, Class, and "Environmental Justice" 3. Invisible Matters: The Sciences of Environmental Justice4. Material Memoirs: Science, Autobiography, and the Substantial Self5. Deviant Agents: The Science, Culture, and Politics of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity6. Genetics, Material Agency, and the Evolution of Posthuman Environmental Ethics in Recent Science FictionNotesWorks CitedIndex