Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others

"Finally, a theorist who takes sexual 'orientation' at its word. In this moving meditation on directionality, Sara Ahmed takes phenomenology for a turn through queer theory, postcolonial studies, feminism, critical race theory, geometry, and labor politics. In the world Ahmed encourages us to reinhabit, as bodies come to matter, bodily action materializes space, children inherit proximities rather than attributes, privileged bodies sink into familiarity, and politics is at its best when it involves a measure of disorientation. Follow her 'lines' of reasoning and you'll never again reach for an explanation, a book, or a lover without wondering how your grasp extended so far in the first place."-Kath Weston, author ofGender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual AgeSara Ahmed is the author of 'Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others', published 2006 under ISBN 9780822338611 and ISBN 0822338610.