Against purity

• Verfasst von: Shotwell, Alexis [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Against purity
• Titelzusatz: living ethically in compromised times
• Verf.angabe: Alexis Shotwell
• Verlagsort: Minneapolis ; London
• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• E-Jahr: 2016
• Jahr: [2016]
• Umfang: 236 Seiten
• Format: 23 cm
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 215-228
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-9862-2
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-9864-6
• Schlagwörter: (s)Gesellschaft / (s)Lebensführung / (s)Ethik
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Shotwell, Alexis, 1974 - : Against purity. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016. - 1 Online-Ressource (236 Seiten)
• RVK-Notation: MS 1170
• RVK-Notation: MS 6280
• K10plus-PPN: 861959892

Abstract

Complexity and complicity: an introduction to constitutive impurity -- Remembering for the future: reckoning with an unjust past -- "Women don't get AIDS, they just die from it": memory, classification, and the campaign to change the definition of AIDS -- Shimmering presences: frog, toad, and toxic interdependencies -- Consuming suffering: eating, energy, and embodied ethics -- Practicing freedom: disability and gender transformation -- Worlds to come: imagining speculative disability futures -- The point, however, is to change it