Feminist Theory Out of Science: 23 (Differences) - Softcover

Roosth, Sophia; Schrader, Astrid; Jentsch, Lynda J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822367742 ISBN 13: 9780822367741

Verlag: Duke University Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Roosth Sophia Schrader Astrid Jentsch Lynda J

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Reseña del editor:

Attending to the rich entanglements of scientific and critical theory, contributors to this issue scrutinize phenomena in nature to explore new territory in feminist science studies. With a special focus on relating theory to method, these scholars generate new feminist approaches to scientific practice. Contributors probe this relationship by way of topics from poetics of human-jellyfish interactions to a feminist reconsideration of a well-known thought experiment in thermodynamics. Two contributors analyze plant-insect encounter research to spin their own symbiotically inflected account of "affective ecologies." Technologies of human memory storage and retrieval lead one writer to interrogate how our understandings of memory and amnesia are currently under revision. Another contributor tracks the lively evolutionary and morphological theories that textile artisans manifest in material models of sea creatures. What emerges from these diverse essays is an approach to critical thinking that inhabits, elaborates, and feeds upon scientific theory, holding feminist theory accountable to science and vice versa. Sophia Roosth is Assistant Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. Astrid Schrader is Visiting Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Sarah Lawrence College. Contributors: Karen Barad, Lina Dib, Eva Hayward, Carla Hustak, Vicki Kirby, Natasha Myers, Sophia Roosth, Astrid Schrader

Biografía del autor:

Naomi Schor is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She is the author of several books including, Breaking the Chain, Reading in Detail, and George Sand and Idealism.

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• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0822367742
• ISBN 13: 9780822367741
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 205