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Dear SWIPpers and FEASTers:

As the editors are not listmembers, I'm taking on promotional duty for
this exciting new volume in feminist theory and philosophy (yes I'm in
it and I'm not apologizing - it's wonderful!)  Please do order it for
your libraries if you can - there's more info and a promotional code for
individual purchases below. Here's the link
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=9780230118317.

With best wishes,
Emma

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New title out with Palgrave MacMillan's series Breaking Feminist Waves:

Undutiful Daughters: New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice

Edited by Henriette Gunkel, Chrysanthi Nigianni, and Fanny Söderbäck

This exciting collection offers a range of perspectives from some of the
most prominent feminist voices of our time, including Rosi Braidotti,
Judith Butler, Claire Colebrook, Elizabeth Grosz, and Jack Halberstam.
Employing experimental modes of thinking and writing, the contributors
remain faithful to the feminist tradition of subversion and resistance,
while refusing to submit to its political tradition of a loving
sisterhood or dutiful daughterhood. Through productive disagreement and
cognitive dissonance, the essays presented here reflect the specific
circumstances of our present, and attempt to dream and envision possible
alternatives for the future.

For order in the US: www.palgrave-usa.com
For order in the UK and the rest of the world: www.palgrave.com

To get a 20% discount, refer to the promo code P356ED.

Voices about the volume:

"This book offers radically new ideas circulating alongside neologisms:
fluid bodies that live in aleatory and disruptive times, beyond and
within the organism, in contact with the ecosystem and with life itself,
while motherhood takes the place of advanced technologies and vice
versa. Contributions are budding in creations that are at once
aesthetic, philosophical, and political: dissidence, anarchism, humor,
but also solidarity, vitality, and subversive resistance. The voices of
these “undutiful daughters” do not advocate a new system of values—they
do not belong to any cult of identity that would lock them up in some
commonplace universe. The alternative that is proposed in their hymn to
singularity and creativity is a “multiverse” (to adopt a term from
modern cosmology). A utopia? Our future."
— Julia Kristeva, University of Paris 7 Denis Diderot

"A polyphony of singular feminist voices tuned on the “third wave”
critical rhythm, this book is relevant to both mapping the multiple
threads of feminist theory and providing new conceptual sounds, in order
to revitalize the unruly spirit that has been an essential feature of
feminism. It succeeds in cracking the surface of a seemingly stagnating
present and provides unforeseen political and speculative routes for
feminisms-to-come."
— Adriana Cavarero, University of Verona
 
"This wonderful collection of essays challenges practices and tropes of
loyalty, transmission and generational fidelity by suggesting the
affirmative and generative, rather than reproductive, potentiality of
feminist theorization. Arguing for unfaithfulness as a form of critical
disobedience, the contributors articulate forms of feminist theory that
are not beholden to the genuflection to foremothers but are rather
always complex in its temporal affiliations and divergences with
histories and identities. Read in this light, “post-feminism” signals
hardly a failure of feminism, but rather a sign of its success in
redefining the terms of its becoming. A must-read for those invested in
the multiple futures of feminist theory."
— Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University


Table of Contents

Preface: The Society of Undutiful Daughters
Rosi Braidotti
 
I. NEW CONCEPTS
Introduction: A Politics of Polyphony
Fanny Söderbäck
1. The Future of Feminist Theory: Dreams for New Knowledges
Elizabeth Grosz
2. The Need for the New in Feminist Activist Discourse: Notes Towards a
Scene of Anachronism
Red Chidgey
3. The Interruptive Feminine: Aleatory Time and Feminist Politics
Emanuela Bianchi
4. Écriture Futuriste
M. F. Simone Roberts
 
II. NEW BODIES AND ETHICS
Introduction: A Politics of Displeasure
Chrysanthi Nigianni
5. Feminist Extinction
Claire Colebrook
6. Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water
Astrida Neimanis
7. The Breathing Body in Movement
Davina Quinlivan
8. Incubators, Pumps, and Other Hard-Breasted Bodies
Katie Lloyd Thomas
 
III. NEW SUBJECTIVITIES
Introduction: A Politics of Visibility
Henriette Gunkel
9. Rethinking Sexual Difference and Kinship in Juliet Mitchell’s
Psychoanalysis and Feminism
Judith Butler
10. Transgenres and the Plane of Gender Imperceptibility
Jami Weinstein
11. Primal Scenes, Forbidden Words, and Reclaimed Spaces:
Voice, Body and Poetic Form in Recent South African Writing
Gabeba Baderoon
12. Going Gaga: Dissent, Refusal, and Feminism
Jack Halberstam
13. (Un)naming the Third Sex After Beauvoir: Towards a Third Dimensional
Feminism
Kyoo Lee
 
-- 
  Emanuela Bianchi
  
  

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