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Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
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Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others Paperback - 2006

by Sara Ahmed

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  • Title Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
  • Author Sara Ahmed
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press Books, Durham
  • Date 2006-12-04
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SKU0515418
  • ISBN 9780822339144 / 0822339145
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.36 x 0.61 in (23.42 x 16.15 x 1.55 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress subjects Spatial behavior, Homosexuality - Philosophy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006012768
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.766

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From the publisher

In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the "orientation" aspect of "sexual orientation" and the "orient" in "orientalism," Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time. Bodies take shape as they move through the world directing themselves toward or away from objects and others. Being "orientated" means feeling at home, knowing where one stands, or having certain objects within reach. Orientations affect what is proximate to the body or what can be reached. A queer phenomenology, Ahmed contends, reveals how social relations are arranged spatially, how queerness disrupts and reorders these relations by not following the accepted paths, and how a politics of disorientation puts other objects within reach, those that might, at first glance, seem awry.

Ahmed proposes that a queer phenomenology might investigate not only how the concept of orientation is informed by phenomenology but also the orientation of phenomenology itself. Thus she reflects on the significance of the objects that appear--and those that do not--as signs of orientation in classic phenomenological texts such as Husserl's Ideas. In developing a queer model of orientations, she combines readings of phenomenological texts--by Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Fanon--with insights drawn from queer studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, and psychoanalysis. Queer Phenomenology points queer theory in bold new directions.

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"This is an original and refreshing use of phenomenological theory to address the kinds of questions--about orientations and about how bodies and objects become oriented through their interrelations--that help link it more directly to political and social questions--about gender, sexuality, and race, for example--that have tended to be treated as outside or beyond phenomenological frameworks. This extension and development of phenomenology is a major contribution."--Elizabeth Grosz, author of "The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely"

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About the author

Sara Ahmed is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her books include The Cultural Politics of Emotion; Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality; and Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism.