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.