On the Feminist Philosophy of Gillian Howie: Materialism and Mortality

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Over three decades, Gillian Howie wrote at the forefront of philosophy and critical theory, before her untimely death in 2013. This interdisciplinary collection uses her writings to explore the productive, yet often resistant, interrelationship between feminism and critical theory, examining the potential of Howie’s particular form of materialism. The contributors also bring to this debate a serious engagement with Howie’s late turn towards philosophies of mortality, therapy and ‘living with dying’. The volume considers how differently embodied subjects are positioned within public institutions, discourses and spaces, and the role of philosophy, art, film, photography, and literature, in facing situations such as sexual oppression and life-limiting illness. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Editors’ Introduction: Gillian Howie’s Philosophies of Embodied Practice Part 1: Feminism, Materialism, Critical Theory 1. When Feminist Philosophy Met Critical Theory: Gillian Howie’s Historical Materialism 2. Feminist Knowledge and Feminist Politics: Reflections on Howie and Late Feminism 3. Between Negative Dialectics and Sexual Difference: Generative Conjunctures in the Thinking of Gillian Howie 4. Scholarly Time and Feminist Time: Gillian Howie on Education and Intellectual Inheritance 5. The Cloistered Imaginary Part 2: Living with Dying 6. How to Think about Death: Living with Dying 7. Gillian Howie’s Situated Philosophy: Theorizing Living and Dying ‘In Situation’ 8. The Relationality of Death 9. Reflections on Living up to Death 10. Learning to Die, Finally 11. ‘What the Living Do’: Poetry’s Death and Dying 12. Cancer Sucks: Photography and the Representation of Chronic Illness 13. Movie-making as Palliative Care 14. Experience and Performance whilst Living with Disability and Dying: Disability Art as a Pathway to Flourishing Index of Names