material feminisms
Sonia, Kruks. “Simone De Beauvoir: Engaging Discrepant Materialisms.” New Materialisms : Ontology, Agency, and Politics
Sonia, Kruks. “Simone De Beauvoir: Engaging Discrepant Materialisms.” New Materialisms : Ontology, Agency, and Politics, Duke University Press, 2010, pp. 258–280. The larger theoretical trend that Kruks draws our attention to is Simone de Beauvoir working in and across both phenomenology and a Marxist-inflected culturally oriented structuralist materialism. While Beauvoir is often read as phenomenology, she … [Read more…]
DISABILITY EXPERIENCE ON TRIAL
Stacy Alaimo & Susan Hekman. Material Feminisms . Indiana University Press. Kindle Edition. Siebers (2008) discusses disability discrimination and the difficulty in overcoming these prejudices because our society is “discrimination by design”. Siebers quotes Jean-François Lyotard’s (1988) definition of différend “as a situation in which victims are denied the means to demonstrate that they have … [Read more…]
New Materialisms – Coole and Frost Recap
Coole and Frost (2010) make a distinction between old and new materiality by stating “We discern as an overriding characteristic of the new materialists their insistence on describing active processes of materialization of which embodied humans are an integral part, rather than the monotonous repetitions of dead matter from which human subjects are apart (8). … [Read more…]