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.
PART I
Affects of Gender 1
1 The Affect of Gender, the Gender of Affect
Todd W. Reeser
2 The Intense Germinal Influx: Affect as Engendering in Deleuze and Guattari
Claire Colebrook
3 Pussyhats and Women’s Marches: Affective Tension in Transnational Feminism
Katja May
4 Trans Negative Affect
Kadji Amin
5 Against Typologies: Affect and Masculinity Studies Jonathan A. Allan
PART II
Affective Relations, Relational Affects
6 “Routine Discombobulations”: Affect, Access, and Attention in Disability Encounters
Angela Marie Smith
7 Serena Williams and Anti-Black Woman Hate: Contempt, Love, Friendship, Shame
Shirley Anne Tate
8 [What Is an Asian American Style?]
Dan Wang
9 Affect and Gender-Based Violence: Event, Atmosphere, Memory
Lucas Gottzén
10 Brotherhood as Affective Disengagement: Male Loyalty from Family to Nation
Andreas Henriksson
11 Gender and Transport: Affective Structures and Practices
Dag Balkmar and Ulf Mellström
12 Greening Guilt: Gender and Sustainable Influencing
Jill E. Anderson
13 Thinking|Feeling Animality: Posthuman-Feminist Perspectives
Sharon Jane Mee
14 Military Masculinities and In/Human Affects
Chloe Diamond-Lenow
PART III
Affective Practices
15 Capitalizing Affect: On Masculinity and Neoliberalism
Steve Garlick
16 Two Modes of Corporate/Neoliberal Masculinity: The Founder and Silicon Valley Paul Elliott Johnson
17 “Next to Being”: The Biopolitics of Prison Visitation and the Senses of Justice
Haley Hvdson
18 Affective Pedagogies, and Pedagogies of Affect: Gender, Solidarity, and the Classroom in the Trigger Warning Debates
Natalie Kouri-Towe
19 Reimaging Affect in the Linguistics of Gender
Scott F. Kiesling and Sean Nonnenmacher
20 Thinking Affect (Back) into Oral History
Lindsey Dodd
PART IV
Representing Affects
21 Feminist Aesthetics of Resistance
Sarah Cefai
22 From the Story of an Eye to a Cinema of Bodies
Jules O’Dwyer
23 Affective Justice: Raising the Dead in Trans* Archival Media
Eliza Steinbock
24 Mediating Gender and Affect through History
Brenton J. Malin
25 Queerness, Race, and Affect on “Peak Tumblr”: A Eulogy
Alexander Cho
26 Noisy Majority: Gender, Affect, and the Urban Soundscape
Andrija Filipović
27 The Reach of Excess through the Prism of Voice-Affect-Gender
Andrea Jonsson
28 Musical Affects, Gender, and Ethopoiesis: Mimesis as Performativity in Plato’s Republic
Daniel Villegas Vélez
29 Donald Trump Isn’t Laughing: Affect, Laughter, and Hegemonic Masculinity
Samuel T. Allen
30 The Poetics and Politics of Affect: Caroline Bergvall, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Rachel Zolf
Heather Milne
31 What Does the Body Know?: Dance as Affective Practice in the Exploration of the Embodiment of Gender
Tamara Borovica
32 Rehearsing a Cursi Commons: Receptivity, Defense, and Wonder
Caitlin Frances Bruce
PART V
Geographical and Spatial Affects
33 Queer Nightscapes: Touching Nightlife in Neoliberal Mexico
David Tenorio
34 Affective Witnessing of the Hijab: A Self-Inflicted Trauma
Mona Abdel-Fadil
35 Memorializing African Being and Becoming in the Atlantic World: Affective Herstories by Yaa Gyasi and Bernardine Evaristo
Caroline Koegler
36 Speculative Mattering: Affect and the Stone that Becomes Valuable in Deep Time
Charlie Yi Zhang
PART VI
Affects of History, Histories of Affect
37 Queering Affects, Temporalities, and Histories
Jennifer Eun-Jung Row
38 Trans-Temporality: Hermeneutic Affect and Queer/Trans of Color Critique
Jacob Lau
39 Political Affect, Gender, and the Theater in Classical Athens
Afroditi Angelopoulou
40 Sticky Affect and Shifting Gender in Late Medieval England: The Making of the Shrew
Holly A. Crocker
41 Religious Affect, Gender Embodiment, and Renaissance Form
Stephen Spencer
42 The Philosophers Versus the Sponge: Feeling Early Modern
Katherine Ibbett
43 Toward a Feminist Fellow-Feeling: Affective Experiments in the Enlightenment
Tracy L. Rutler and Ryan J. Pilcher
44 Austen’s Women and the Errant Affect of the Early Novel
Stephen Ahern
45 Bad Investments?: Masculine Affective Economies in the French Restauration Novel
Giuseppina Mecchia
Biography
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.