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Author:
Shotwell, Alexis, 1974- author.
Title:
Against purity : living ethically in compromised times / Alexis Shotwell.
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
236 pages ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Purity (Ethics)
Purity (Philosophy)
Conduct of life.
Civilization, Modern--21st century.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index.
Contents:
Complexity and complicity : an introduction to constitutive impurity -- Part I. Reckoning with a fraught past. Remembering for the future : reckoning with an unjust past -- "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. Shimmering presences : frog, toad, and toxic interdependencies -- Consuming suffering : eating, energy, and embodied ethics -- Part III. Shaping unforeseeable futures. Practicing freedom : disability and gender transformation -- Worlds to come : imagining speculative disability futures -- Conclusion : the point, however, is to change it.
ISBN:
0816698627
9780816698622
0816698643
9780816698646
LCCN:
2016008376
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)
CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

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