Shotwell, Alexis, 1974-

Against purity : living ethically in compromised times / Alexis Shotwell. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016 - 236 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index.

Complexity and complicity: an introduction to constitutive impurity -- 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 -- Shimmering presences: frog, toad, and toxic interdependencies -- Consuming suffering: eating, energy, and embodied ethics -- Practicing freedom: disability and gender transformation -- Worlds to come: imagining speculative disability futures -- The point, however, is to change it.

9780816698646 (pb : alk. paper)


Purity (Ethics)
Purity (Philosophy)
Conduct of life.
Civilization, Modern--21st century.

170 SHO