Entanglements and Weavings: Diffractive Approaches to Gender and Love: Diffractive Approaches to Gender and Love

In this edited volume, authors from multiple academic and creative disciplines interrogate constructionist and new materialist paradigms to assess their adequacy when analysing entanglements and weavings of gender and love in diverse contexts where discursive and material elements intra-act. Entanglements and Weavings: Diffractive Approaches to Gender and Love Copyright Contents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1: Reflections on Theory 1 Effects of Materiality in Israelite-Jewish Conceptions of Gender and Love: on a Necessary Synthesis of Constructionist and New Materialist Approaches 2 For Love of the World: Material Entanglements in Ecosexual Performance 3 "Yet the old woman will not sleep": Reading Motherhood in Ursula K. Le Guin's Writings Part 2: Materiality in Creative Texts 4 Butch: A Cartography of Desire 5 Materiality and Agential Women in Animal Bridegroom Fairy Tales from Europe and Bengal 6 Becoming-Woman in Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve Part 3: Fluid Identities in Heterotopic Spaces 7 Ferzan Özpetek's Cinema: a Post-constructionist Approach to Gender and Love 8 Love and Monsters: Gender, Autonomy and Desire in Modern Golem Literature 9 Drinking, Dancing and Hooking Up: Young Adults in Sexual Pursuit in the Mainstream Nightlife in Denmark Part 4: Social Relata 10 Love in Different Climates: Love Care and Practices of Intimacy among Women in Hong Kong and Britain 11 New Arrangements of Embodiment, Materiality, Love and Gender in the Kurdistan Workers' Party 12 Bound and Entangled: Masculinities, Embodiment and the Materialisation of Gender in the Sexual Field of the bdsm Club Part 5: Afterword 13 Eve, Adam and the Garden of Earthly Delights Index "This edited volume focuses on gender and love as emerging through complex “entanglements and weavings”. At a time when constructionist ideas are losing support, we interrogate theoretical paradigms to assess if constructionist notions still hold value or if new approaches are needed to address the effects of materiality and non-human agency. Without claiming any unison or definite answers, we offer situated, agential cuts into gender and love in various discursive-material phenomena, including Biblical and Rabbinic literature, ecosexual performance art, the writings of Ursula Le Guin and Angela Carter, butch identities, Bengali folktales, Ferzan Özpetek’s cinema, Golem literature, sexual pursuits in Danish nightlife, mother-daughter relationships, women warriors in the PKK, and BDSM performances. Artistic photographer Sara Davidmann has contributed to the book with the cover illustration and a creative afterword including seven photographs on the interaction between the photographer, her studio, and LGBTQ+ people"-- Provided by publisher This edited volume focuses on gender and love as phenomena that emerge through complex "entanglements and weavings". At a point where constructionist ideas are losing support, we interrogate theoretical paradigms to assess if constructionist notions still hold value or if new approaches are needed to address the effects of materiality and non-human agency on gender and love. Without claiming any unison or definite answers, we offer situated, agential cuts into Biblical and Rabbinic literature, ecosexual performance art, the writings of Ursula Le Guin and Angela Carter, butch identities, Bengali folktales, Ferzan Özpetek's cinema, Golem literature, sexual pursuits in Danish nightlife, mother-daughter relationships, women warriors in the PKK, and BDSM performances. Artistic photographer, Sara Davidmann, has contributed to the book with the cover illustration and a creative afterword including seven photographs on the effects of her photography studio on LGBTQ+ people