The Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect

by Todd W. Reeser (Editor)

Overview

The study of affect is one of the most exciting and wide-ranging topics to have emerged in the humanities and social sciences in recent years and continues to generate research and debate. It has particularly important implications for the study of gender, as this outstanding handbook amply demonstrates. It is the most comprehensive volume to date, engaging with the intersections between gender and affect studies. A global and interdisciplinary range of contributors articulate the connections (and disconnections) between gender, sexuality, and affect in a range of geographical and historical contexts. Comprising over 40 chapters, the Companion is divided into six parts:

• Affects of Gender
• Affective Relations, Relational Affects
• Affective Practices
• Representing Affects
• Geographical and Spatial Affects
• Affects of History, Histories of Affect

Topics examined include intersections between gender and affect over topics including queerness, trans*, feminism, masculinity, race/ethnicity, disability, animality, media, posthumanism, technology, sound, labor, neoliberalism, protest, and temporality.

This is an outstanding collection that will be invaluable to scholars and students across a range of disciplines, including gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, literature, media, and sociology.

Chapter 18 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032350844
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/26/2024
Series:	Routledge Companions to Gender
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Todd W. Reeser is Chair of the Department of French and Italian and Professor of French and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. His research treats questions of gender and sexuality in early modern and contemporary Europe and of theoretical approaches to masculinity. His books include Masculinities in Theory (2010); Setting Plato Straight: Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance (2016); and Queer Cinema in Contemporary France (2022), and he has published a series of articles on masculinity and affect.

Table of Contents

Part I: Affects of Gender; 1. The Affect of Gender, Gender of Affect; 2. The Intense Germinal Influx: Affect as Engendering in Deleuze and Guattari; 3. Pussyhats and Women’s Marches: Affective Tension in Transnational Feminism; 4. Trans Negative Affect; 5. Against Typologies: Affect and Masculinity Studies; Part II: Affective Relations, Relational Affects; 6. "Routine Discombobulations": Affect, Access, and Attention in Disability Encounters; 7. Serena Williams and Anti-Black Woman Hate: Contempt, Love, Friendship, Shame; 8. [What Is an Asian American Style?]; 9. Affect and Gender-Based Violence: Event, Atmosphere, Memory; 10. Brotherhood as Affective Disengagement: Male Loyalty from Family to Nation; 11. Gender and Transport: Affective Structures and Practices; 12. Greening Guilt: Gender and Sustainable Influencing; 13. Thinking|Feeling Animality: Posthuman-Feminist Perspectives; 14. Military Masculinities and In/Human Affects; Part III: Affective Practices; 15. Capitalizing Affect: On Masculinity and Neoliberalism; 16. Two Modes of Corporate/Neoliberal Masculinity: The Founder and Silicon Valley; 17. ‘Next to Being’: The Biopolitics of Prison Visitation and the Senses of Justice; 18. Affective Pedagogies, and Pedagogies of Affect: Gender, Solidarity, and the Classroom in the Trigger Warning Debates; 19. Reimaging Affect in the Linguistics of Gender; 20. Thinking Affect (Back) into Oral History, Part IV: Representing Affects; 21. Feminist Aesthetics of Resistance; 22. From the Story of an Eye to a Cinema of Bodies; 23. Affective Justice: Raising the Dead in Trans* Archival Media; 24. Mediating Gender and Affect through History; 25. Queerness, Race, and Affect on "Peak Tumblr": A Eulogy; 26. Noisy Majority: Gender, Affect, and the Urban Soundscape; 27. The Reach of Excess Through the Prism of Voice-Affect-Gender; 28. Musical Affects, Gender, and Ethopoiesis: Mimesis as Performativity in Plato’s Republic; 29. Donald Trump Isn’t Laughing: Affect, Laughter, and Hegemonic Masculinity; 30. The Poetics and Politics of Affect: Caroline Bergvall, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Rachel Zolf; 31. What does the Body Know?: Dance as Affective Practice in the Exploration of the Embodiment of Gender; 32. Rehearsing a Cursi Commons: Receptivity, Defense, and Wonder; Part V: Geographical and Spatial Affects; 33. Queer Nightscapes: Touching Nightlife in Neoliberal Mexico; 34. Affective Witnessing of the Hijab: A Self-Inflicted Trauma; 35. Memorializing African Being and Becoming in the Atlantic World: Affective Herstories by Yaa Gyasi and Bernardine Evaristo; 36. Speculative Mattering: Affect and the Stone that Becomes Valuable in Deep Time; Part VI: Affects of History, Histories of Affect; 37. Queering Affects, Temporalities, and Histories; 38. Trans-Temporality: Hermeneutic Affect and Queer/Trans of Color Critique; 39. Political Affect, Gender, and the Theater in Classical Athens; 40. Sticky Affect and Shifting Gender in Late Medieval England: The Making of the Shrew; 41. Religious Affect, Gender Embodiment, and Renaissance Form; 42. The Philosophers Versus the Sponge: Feeling Early Modern; 43. Toward a Feminist Fellow-Feeling: Affective Experiments in the Enlightenment; 44. Austen’s Women and the Errant Affect of the Early Novel; 45. Bad Investments?: Masculine Affective Economies in the French Restauration Novel