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Faced with the seemingly enormous difficulty of representing
`others', many theorists working in Cultural Studies have been
turning to themselves as a way of speaking about the personal. In
Sexing the Self Elspeth Probyn tackles this question of the sex of
the self, an issue of vital importance to feminists and yet
neglected by feminist theory until now, to suggest that there are
ways of using our gendered selves in order to speak and theorize
non-essential but embodied selves. Arguing for `feminisms with
attitude', Sexing the Self ranges across a wide range of
theoretical strands, drawing upon a body of literature from early
Cultural Studies to Anglo-American feminist literary criticism,
from `identity debates' to Foucault's `care of the self'.
Faced with the seemingly enormous difficulty of representing 'others', many theorists working in Cultural Studies have been turning to themselves as a way of speaking about the personal. In Sexing the Self Elspeth Probyn tackles this question of the sex of the self, an issue of vital importance to feminists and yet neglected by feminist theory until now, to suggest that there are ways of using our gendered selves in order to speak and theorize non-essential but embodied selves. Arguing for 'feminisms with attitude', Sexing the Self ranges across a wide range of theoretical strands, drawing upon a body of literature from early Cultural Studies to Anglo-American feminist literary criticism, from 'identity debates' to Foucault's 'care of the self'. _ Readership: Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Gender Studies
In Eating the Ocean Elspeth Probyn investigates the profound
importance of the ocean and the future of fish and human
entanglement. On her ethnographic journey around the world's oceans
and fisheries, she finds that the ocean is being simplified in a
food politics that is overwhelmingly land based and preoccupied
with buzzwords like "local" and "sustainable." Developing a
conceptual tack that combines critical analysis and embodied
ethnography, she dives into the lucrative and endangered bluefin
tuna market, the gendered politics of "sustainability," the
ghoulish business of producing fish meal and fish oil for animals
and humans, and the long history of encounters between humans and
oysters. Seeing the ocean as the site of the entanglement of
multiple species-which are all implicated in the interactions of
technology, culture, politics, and the market-enables us to think
about ways to develop a reflexive ethics of taste and place based
in the realization that we cannot escape the food politics of the
human-fish relationship.
Why read Sustaining Seas? It is as simple as this: the seas sustain
all life. This edited book emerges from conversations across
several disciplines, and including practitioners of different
specialities (artists, writers, planners, policy makers) about how
to sustain the seas, as they sustain us. Sustaining Seas: Oceanic
space and the politics of care aims to build a better understanding
of what it means to care for aquatic places and their biocultural
communities. The book is truly interdisciplinary and brings
together a wide range of authors including, academics from diverse
fields (architecture, science, cultural studies, law), artists,
fisheries managers, and Indigenous Traditional Owners. It provides
readers with new theoretical framings, as well as grounded case
studies with a wide geographical and cultural breadth. This book
assumes that understanding complexity, including social, cultural,
ecological and economic interconnections, is crucial to any
solution. Sustaining the seas is one of the most pressing global
challenges for the planet and all her inhabitants. How to do
justice to this challenge is an exigency for all scholars, and how
to represent the oceans is a guiding theme in the book that is
addressed by scholars, artists, and practitioners.
Are bodies sexy? How, and in what sorts of ways? "Sexy Bodies"
investigates the production of sexual bodies and sexual practices,
sexualities of all kinds--dyke, bisexual, transracial, even
heterosexual. While celebrating lesbian and queer sexualities,
"Sexy Bodies" also explores what runs underneath and within "all"
sexualities, discovering what is fundamentally strange about all
bodies, all carnalities.
Looking at a pleasurable variety of cultural forms and texts, the
contributors consider the particular charms of girls and horses,
from "National Velvet" to "Marnie"; discuss figures of the lesbian
body, from vampires to tomboys; uncover "virtual" lesbians in the
fiction of Jeanette Winterson; track desire in the music of
legendary Blues singers; and investigate the ever-scrutinized and
celebrated body of Elizabeth Taylor. The collection also includes
two important pieces of fiction byMary Fallon and Nicole Brossard.
"Sexy Bodies" makes new connections between and among bodies,
cruising the borders of the obscene, the pleasurable, the
desirable, and the unspoken, rethinking sexuality anew, as deeply
and stangely sexy.
Contributors: Sue Best, Nicole Brossard, Dianne Chisholm, Barbara
Creed, Angela Davis, Mary Fallon, Anna Gibbs, Sue Golding,
Elizabeth Grosz, Melissa Jane Hardie, Lisa Moore, Chantal Nadeau,
Elspeth Probyn, Sabina Sawhney, Catherine Waldby
Why read Sustaining Seas? It is as simple as this: the seas sustain
all life. This edited book emerges from conversations across
several disciplines, and including practitioners of different
specialities (artists, writers, planners, policy makers) about how
to sustain the seas, as they sustain us. Sustaining Seas: Oceanic
space and the politics of care aims to build a better understanding
of what it means to care for aquatic places and their biocultural
communities. The book is truly interdisciplinary and brings
together a wide range of authors including, academics from diverse
fields (architecture, science, cultural studies, law), artists,
fisheries managers, and Indigenous Traditional Owners. It provides
readers with new theoretical framings, as well as grounded case
studies with a wide geographical and cultural breadth. This book
assumes that understanding complexity, including social, cultural,
ecological and economic interconnections, is crucial to any
solution. Sustaining the seas is one of the most pressing global
challenges for the planet and all her inhabitants. How to do
justice to this challenge is an exigency for all scholars, and how
to represent the oceans is a guiding theme in the book that is
addressed by scholars, artists, and practitioners.
Are bodies sexy? How? In what sorts of ways? Sexy Bodies investigates the production of sexual bodies and sexual practices, of sexualities which are dyke, bi, transracial, and even hetero. It celebrates lesbian and queer sexualities but also explores what runs underneath and within all sexualities, discovering what is fundamentally weird and strange about all bodies, all carnalities. Looking at a pleasurable variety of cultural forms and texts, the contributors consider the particular charms of girls and horses, from National Velvet to Marnie; discuss figures of the lesbian body from vampires to tribades to tomboys; uncover 'virtual' lesbians in the fiction of Jeanette Winterson; track desire in the music of legendary Blues singers; and investigate the ever-scrutinised and celebrated body of Elizabeth Taylor. The collection includes two important pieces of fiction by Mary Fallon and Nicole Brossard. Sexy Bodies makes new connections between and amongst bodies, cruising the borders of the obscene, the pleasurable, the desirable and the hitherto unspoken rethinking sexuality anew as deeply and strangely sexy.
With the rise of pride - national pride, gay pride, black pride,
fat pride - shame, the "sickness of the soul," has acquired a bad
reputation. While the repudiation of some forms and consequences of
societal shame are undoubtedly necessary, Elspeth Probyn contends
that this emotion is a powerful resource in rethinking who we are
and who we want to be. When we blush, we are driven to question
what we value about ourselves and why. Blush argues that we are all
born with a capacity for shame, much as we are born with the
capacity for anger or pride, and that shame, like these other
emotions, can be good for us and reveal the good in us. Painfully
introspective, shame demands that we question our actions and our
relationship to others. Shame's physical manifestation - the blush
- gives us away, connecting us to our humanity. What shames us says
a great deal about our character as individuals and as a society,
about our past and our desires for the future. Written in an
engaging and personal style, Blush combines psychology and cultural
criticism, sociology and popular science, to present a unique
perspective on debates about the ethics and emotion of identity.
In Eating the Ocean Elspeth Probyn investigates the profound
importance of the ocean and the future of fish and human
entanglement. On her ethnographic journey around the world's oceans
and fisheries, she finds that the ocean is being simplified in a
food politics that is overwhelmingly land based and preoccupied
with buzzwords like "local" and "sustainable." Developing a
conceptual tack that combines critical analysis and embodied
ethnography, she dives into the lucrative and endangered bluefin
tuna market, the gendered politics of "sustainability," the
ghoulish business of producing fish meal and fish oil for animals
and humans, and the long history of encounters between humans and
oysters. Seeing the ocean as the site of the entanglement of
multiple species-which are all implicated in the interactions of
technology, culture, politics, and the market-enables us to think
about ways to develop a reflexive ethics of taste and place based
in the realization that we cannot escape the food politics of the
human-fish relationship.
In Carnal Appetites, Elspeth Probyn charts the explosion of interest in food - from the cults that spring up around celebrity chefs, to our love/hate relationship with fast food, our fetishization of food and sex, and the impact of our modes of consumption on our identities. 'You are what you eat' the saying goes, but is the tenet truer than ever? As the range of food options proliferates in the West, our food choices become inextricably linked with our lives and lifestyles. Probyn also tackles issues that trouble society, asking questions about the nature of appetite, desire, greed and pleasure, and shedding light on subjects including: fast food, vegetarianism, food sex, cannibalism, forced feeding, and fat politics.
This analysis of the ethical challenges posed by new media formats, technologies and audiences considers many aspects of these emerging genres and technologies. It reveals how they work and are reshaping the public sphere, as well as how the connections between product and viewer, and producer and media consumer, are being changed by new shows and formats. With so much interest in contemporary media forms and so many heated debates about media ethics, this book is essential to journalists, media practitioners and theorists.
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