Ruti Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings

The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54676-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal anecdotes to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud’s idea of penis envy, Ruti fans out to a broader consideration of neoliberal pragmatism and a trenchant critique of gender relations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ruti, Mari

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. The Creed of Pragmatism
2. The Rationalization of Intimacy
3. The Obsessions of Gender
4. The Reinvention of Heteropatriarchy
5. The Specificity of Desire
6. The Age of Anxiety
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ruti Mari:
Mari Ruti (PhD, Comparative Literature, Harvard) is Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of numerous books, including Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life (Other Press, 2006), The Age of Scientific Sexism: How Evolutionary Psychology Promotes Gender Profiling and Fans the Battle of the Sexes (Bloomsbury, 2015), The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects (Columbia, 2017), and Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Psychological and Emotional Costs of Everyday Life (Columbia, 2018). She specializes in critical theory, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory.Mari Ruti is Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of ten books, including The Summons of Love (2011); The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living (2013); and The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory’s Defiant Subjects (2017), all published by Columbia University Press.