Entanglements and Weavings: Diffractive Approaches to Gender and Love

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-44145-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 358, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 620 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Social Philosophy

This edited volume focuses on gender and love as emerging through complex “entanglements and weavings”. At a time when constructionist ideas are losing support, we interrogate theoretical paradigms to assess if constructionist notions still hold value or if new approaches are needed to address the effects of materiality and non-human agency. Without claiming any unison or definite answers, we offer situated, agential cuts into gender and love in various discursive-material phenomena, including Biblical and Rabbinic literature, ecosexual performance art, the writings of Ursula Le Guin and Angela Carter, butch identities, Bengali folktales, Ferzan Özpetek’s cinema, Golem literature, sexual pursuits in Danish nightlife, mother-daughter relationships, women warriors in the PKK, and BDSM performances. Artistic photographer Sara Davidmann has contributed to the book with the cover illustration and a creative afterword including seven photographs on the interaction between the photographer, her studio, and LGBTQ+ people.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Byrne, Deirdre C.

Schleicher, Marianne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustration

Notes of Contributors

Introduction

Deirdre C. Byrne and Marianne Schleicher

Part 1: Reflections on theory

1 Effects of Materiality in Israelite-Jewish Conceptions of Gender and Love: on a Necessary Synthesis of Constructionist and New Materialist Approaches

Marianne Schleicher

2 For Love of the World: Material Entanglements in Ecosexual Performance

Louis van den Hengel

3 “Yet the old woman will not sleep”: reading Motherhood in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Writing

Deirdre C. Byrne

Part 2: Materiality in creative texts

4 Butch: a Cartography of Desire

Kelly Gardiner

5 Materiality and Agential Women in Animal Bridegroom Fairy Tales from Europe and Bengal

Amrita Chakraborty

6 Becoming-Woman in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve

Wernmei Yong Ade

Part 3: Fluid identities in heterotopic spaces

7 Ferzan Özpetek’s Cinema: a Post-Constructionist Approach to Gender and Love

Dikmen Yakali-Çamoglu

8 Love and Monsters: gender, Autonomy and Desire in Modern Golem Literature

Alana Vincent

9 Drinking, Dancing and Hooking Up: young Adults in Sexual Pursuit in Mainstream Nightlife in Denmark

Mie Birk Jensen

Part 4: Social relata

10 Love in Different Climates: love, Care and Practices of Intimacy among Women in Hong Kong and Britain

Stevi Jackson and Petula Sik Ying Ho

11 New Arrangements of Embodiment, Materiality, Love and Gender in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party

Mustafa Kemal Topal

12 Bound and Entangled: masculinities, Embodiment and the Materialisation of Gender in the Sexual Field of the BDSM Club

Serena Petrella

Part 5: Afterword

13 Eve, Adam and the Garden of Earthly Delights

Sara Davidmann

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Deirdre C. Byrne, Ph.D. (1996), is Professor of English at the University of South Africa. She has written on Ursula Le Guin’s poetry, co-edited Fluid Gender, Fluid Love (Brill, 2018), and is the editor of Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa.

Marianne Schleicher, Ph.D. (2003), is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has authored Intertextuality in the Tales of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav (Brill, 2007) and has written extensively on gender and the function of scripture in Jewish religion.