Against purity : living ethically in compromised times

Against purity Living ethically in compromised times

Alexis Shotwell, 1974-

Book - 2016

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Subjects
Purity (Ethics)
Purity (Philosophy)
Conduct of life.
Civilization, Modern > 21st century.
Published
Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press [2016]
Language
English
Main Author
Alexis Shotwell, 1974- (author)
Physical Description
236 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index.
ISBN
9780816698646
9780816698622
  • Complexity and Complicity: An Introduction to Constitutive Impurity
  • Part I. Reckoning with a Fraught Past
  • 1. Remembering for the Future: Reckoning with an Unjust Past
  • 2. "Women Don't Get AIDS, They Just Die From It": Memory, Classification, and the Campaign to Change the Definition of AIDS
  • Part II. Living in an interdependent Present
  • 3. Shimmering Presences: Frog, Toad, and Toxic Interdependencies
  • 4. Consuming Suffering: Eating, Energy, and Embodied Ethics
  • Part III. Shaping Unforeseeable Futures
  • 5. Practicing Freedom: Disability and Gender Transformation
  • 6. Worlds to Come: Imagining Speculative Disability Futures
  • Conclusion: The Point, However, Is to Change It
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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