| In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self Contributor(s): Ortega, Mariana (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438459777 ISBN-13: 9781438459776 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology |
| Dewey: 305.488 |
| LCCN: 2015011074 |
| Series: Suny Series, Philosophy and Race |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.20 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Latino |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This original study intertwining Latina feminism, existential phenomenology, and race theory offers a new philosophical approach to understanding selfhood and identity. Focusing on writings by Glor a Anzald a, Mar a Lugones, and Linda Mart n Alcoff, Mariana Ortega articulates a phenomenology that introduces a conception of selfhood as both multiple and singular. Her Latina feminist phenomenological approach can account for identities belonging simultaneously to different worlds, including immigrants, exiles, and inhabitants of borderlands. Ortega's project forges new directions not only in Latina feminist thinking on such issues as borders, mestizaje, marginality, resistance, and identity politics, but also connects this analysis to the existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger and to such concepts as being-in-the-world, authenticity, and intersubjectivity. The pairing of the personal and the political in Ortega's work is illustrative of the primacy of lived experience in the development of theoretical understandings of who we are. In addition to bringing to light central metaphysical issues regarding the temporality and continuity of the self, Ortega models a practice of philosophy that draws from work in other disciplines and that recognizes the important contributions of Latina feminists and other theorists of color to philosophical pursuits. |