Feminist posthumanism /
The posthuman turn, which questions the preeminence of and historical exclusions produced through the category of the human, has come to significantly influence feminist thinking, researching, and doing. Diversely situated and transdisciplinary in nature, feminist posthumanism is difficult to pin do...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd.,
2020.
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| Series: | Theoretical foundations of qualitative research.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The posthuman turn, which questions the preeminence of and historical exclusions produced through the category of the human, has come to significantly influence feminist thinking, researching, and doing. Diversely situated and transdisciplinary in nature, feminist posthumanism is difficult to pin down as it traverses various thresholds of practices of research, pedagogy, politics, activism, and art. Posthuman thought, which includes feminist posthumanism, feminist new materialisms, and feminist affect theories (Ringrose et al., 2018), challenges anthropocentric ideals of the human as uniquely sovereign over the world and binary thinking that separates nature from culture, human from animal, the animate from inanimate, subject from object, self from environment, the living from nonliving, among others. Feminist theorists have long been concerned with, in Peta Hinton and Pat Treusch's (2015) ... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781529746709 1529746701 9781526421036 1526421038 |