Material Feminisms

Acknowledgments p. xi Introduction: Emerging Models of Materiality in Feminist Theory Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman p. 1 Part 1 Material Theory 1 Darwin and Feminism: Preliminary Investigations for a Possible Alliance Elizabeth Grosz p. 23 2 On Not Becoming Man: The Materialist Politics of Unactualized Potential Claire Colebrook p. 52 3 Constructing the Ballast: An Ontology for Feminism Susan Hekman p. 85 4 Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter Karen Barad p. 120 Part 2 Material World 5 Otherworldly Conversations, Terran Topics, Local Terms Donna J. Haraway p. 157 6 Viscous Porosity: Witnessing Katrina Nancy Tuana p. 188 7 Natural Convers(at)ions: Or, What if Culture was Really Nature all Along? Vicki Kirby p. 214 8 Trans-Corporeal Feminisms and the Ethical Space of Nature Stacy Alaimo p. 237 9 Landscape, Memory, and Forgetting: Thinking Through (my Mother's) Body and Place Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands p. 265 Part 3 Material Bodies 10 Disability Experience on Trial Tobin Siebers p. 291 11 How Real Is Race? Michael Hames-Garcia p. 308 12 From Race/Sex/Etc. To Glucose, Feeding Tube, and Mourning: The Shifting Matter of Chicana Feminism Suzanne Bost p. 340 13 Organic Empathy: Feminism, Psychopharmaceuticals, and the Embodiment of Depression Elizabeth A. Wilson p. 373 14 Cassie's Hair Susan Bordo p. 400 List of Contributors p. 425 Index p. 429.