Offers a robust understanding of materiality from a feminist point of view ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XI INTRODUCTION: EMERGING MODELS OF MATERIALITY IN FEMINIST THEORY 1 Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman PART 1. MATERIAL THEORY 1. DARWIN AND FEMINISM: PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS FOR A POSSIBLE ALLIANCE 23 Elizabeth Grosz 2. ON NOT BECOMING MAN: THE MATERIALIST POLITICS OF UNACTUALIZED POTENTIAL 52 Claire Colebrook 3. CONSTRUCTING THE BALLAST: AN ONTOLOGY FOR FEMINISM 85 Susan Hekman 4. POSTHUMANIST PERFORMATIVITY: TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW MATTER COMES TO MATTER 120 Karen Barad PART 2. MATERIAL WORLD 5. OTHERWORLDLY CONVERSATIONS, TERRAN TOPICS, LOCAL TERMS 157 Donna J. Haraway 6. VISCOUS POROSITY: WITNESSING KATRINA 188 Nancy Tuana 7. NATURAL CONVERS(AT)IONS: OR, WHAT IF CULTURE WAS REALLY NATURE ALL ALONG? 214 Vicki Kirby 8. TRANS-CORPOREAL FEMINISMS AND THE ETHICAL SPACE OF NATURE 237 Stacy Alaimo 9. LANDSCAPE, MEMORY, AND FORGETTING: THINKING THROUGH (MY MOTHER'S) BODY AND PLACE 265 Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands PART 3. MATERIAL BODIES 10. DISABILITY EXPERIENCE ON TRIAL 291 Tobin Siebers 11. HOW REAL IS RACE? 308 Michael Haines-Garcia 12. FROM RACE/SEX/ETC. TO GLUCOSE, FEEDING TUBE, AND MOURNING: THE SHIFTING MATTER OF CHICANA FEMINISM 340 Suzanne Bost 13. ORGANIC EMPATHY: FEMINISM, PSYCHOPHARMACEUTICALS, AND THE EMBODIMENT OF DEPRESSION 373 Elizabeth A. Wilson 14. CASSIE'S HAIR 400 Susan Bordo LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 425 INDEX 429