Queer phenomenology : orientations, objects, others / Sara Ahmed.
| Author/creator | Ahmed, Sara, 1969- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2006. |
| Copyright Date | ©2006 |
| Description | 1 online resource (223 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | e-Duke books scholarly collection. ^A1054174 |
| Contents | Introduction: find your way -- Orientations toward objects -- Sexual orientation -- The orient and other others -- Conclusion: disorientation and queer objects. |
| Abstract | 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 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index. |
| Access restriction | Use copy Restrictions unspecified star |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| Technical details | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Action note | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 21, 2019). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Ahmed, Sara. Queer phenomenology. Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2006 0822338610 9780822338611 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2006012768 |
| ISBN | 9780822388074 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 0822388073 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 9781283022347 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 1283022346 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 9786613022349 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 6613022349 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 0822338610 |
| ISBN | 9780822338611 |
| ISBN | 0822339145 |
| ISBN | 9780822339144 |
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| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
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| Standard identifier# | 9780822338611 |
| Standard identifier# | 9780822339144 |
| Stock number | 1169326 Proquest Ebook Central |
| Stock number | 22573/ctv1240p0n JSTOR |
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