Marianne Liljeström – författare

Affect has become something of a buzzword in cultural and feminist theory during the past decade. References to affect, emotions and intensities abound, their implications in terms of research practices have often remained less manifest. Working with Affect in Feminist Readings: Disturbing Differences explores the place and function of affect in feminist knowledge production in general and in textual methodology in particular. With an international group of contributors from studies of history, media, philosophy, culture, ethnology, art, literature and religion, the volume investigates affect as the dynamics of reading, as carnal encounters and as possibilities for the production of knowledge. Working with Affect in Feminist Readings asks what exactly are we doing when working with affect, and what kinds of ethical, epistemological and ontological issues this involves. Not limiting itself to descriptive accounts, the volume takes part in establishing new ways of understanding feminist methodology.

Affect has become something of a buzzword in cultural and feminist theory during the past decade. References to affect, emotions and intensities abound, their implications in terms of research practices have often remained less manifest. Working with Affect in Feminist Readings: Disturbing Differences explores the place and function of affect in feminist knowledge production in general and in textual methodology in particular. With an international group of contributors from studies of history, media, philosophy, culture, ethnology, art, literature and religion, the volume investigates affect as the dynamics of reading, as carnal encounters and as possibilities for the production of knowledge. Working with Affect in Feminist Readings asks what exactly are we doing when working with affect, and what kinds of ethical, epistemological and ontological issues this involves. Not limiting itself to descriptive accounts, the volume takes part in establishing new ways of understanding feminist methodology.

This book examines how a geopolitical grammar works in Nordic and Russian academic feminism and how understandings of a joint feminist “we”, of “Nordicness” and ideas of an “East/West-Divide” shape the formation of gender research fields. In three distinct chapters, each with a different approach to theories, methods and source materials, the book explores the implications of language, translation, and situated knowledges in the development of gender research as a geopolitical area and particular academic space during the mid-1970s until 2005, and considers feminist knowledge production as a field of power relations.

Feminismi on yksi aikamme tärkeimmistä ja näkyvimmistä aatevirtauksista. Se on kritisoinut filosofikuninkaiden totuuksia ja kysynyt, miten voimme ajatella, tietää ja toimia toisin. Feminismi on myös visio yhteiskunnasta, missä sukupuoli vapauttaa eikä vangitse.Feministinen teoria ja kritiikki muodostavat monikerroksisen keskustelujen kentän. "Feministejä - Aikamme ajattelijoita" on erinomainen tapa tutustua neljäntoista teoreetikon ajatusmaailmaan. Kirjassa esitellään Rosi Braidotti, Judith Butler, Mary Daly, Teresa de Lauretis, Elizabeth Grosz, Donna Haraway, Sandra Hardind, bell hooks, Luce Irigaray, Nancy K. Miller, Adrienne Rich, Joan Scott, Gayatry Chakravorty Spivak ja Iris Marion Young.Kirja on kirjoitettu sukupuolentutkimuksen opiskelijoille., tutkijoille ja kaikille niille, jotka ovat kiinnostuneita nykyteorioista ja etenkin feminismin ajatusmaailmasta.