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Between Levinas and Lacan : self, other, ethics
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ISBN: 9781628926408 1628926406 Year: 2015 Publisher: London: Bloomsbury,

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Feminist film theory and Pretty woman
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ISBN: 9781501319426 9781501319464 1501319426 1501319469 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.,


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A world of fragile things
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ISBN: 1438427190 1441618686 9781441618689 9781438427157 9781438427195 1438427158 9781438427164 1438427166 Year: 2009 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

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Psychoanalytic perspective on what Western philosophers from Socrates to Foucault have called "the art of living.".


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The age of scientific sexism : how evolutionary psychology promotes gender profiling and fans the battle of the sexes
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ISBN: 1628923814 1501304828 1628923822 9781628923827 9781628923810 9781628923803 1628923806 9781628923797 1628923792 9781501304828 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York: Bloomsbury academic,

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"We trust our sciences to operate on a plane of objectivity and fact in a world of subjectivity and cultural ideologies, but should we? In The Age of Scientific Sexism, philosopher Mari Ruti offers a sharp critique of the gender profiling tendencies of evolutionary psychology, untangling the insidious threads of various gender mythologies that have infiltrated or perhaps even define this faux-science. Selling stereotypes as scientific facts, evolutionary psychology continually brings retrograde models of sexuality into mainstream culture: it insists that men and women live in two completely different psychological, emotional, and sexual universes, and that they will consequently always be locked in a vicious battle of the sexes. Among these regressive arguments is the assumption that men's sexuality is urgent and indiscriminate, whereas women are "naturally" reluctant, reticent, and choosy a concept constructed to justify masculine behavior, such as cheating, that women have historically found painful. On its most basic level, The Age of Scientific Sexism explores our impulse to "explain" romantic behavior through science: in the increasingly egalitarian gender landscape of our society, why are we so eager to embrace the rampant gender profiling that evolutionary psychology promotes? Perhaps these simplistic gender caricatures owe their popularity, at least in part, to our overly pragmatic society pragmatic society, which encourages us to search for easy answers to complex questions."--Bloomsbury Publishing.


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The Ethics of Opting Out : Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects
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ISBN: 0231543352 9780231543354 9780231180900 023118090X 9780231180917 0231180918 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press,

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In The Ethics of Opting Out, Mari Ruti provides an accessible yet theoretically rigorous account of the ideological divisions that have animated queer theory during the last decade, paying particular attention to the field's rejection of dominant neoliberal narratives of success, cheerfulness, and self-actualization. More specifically, she focuses on queer negativity in the work of Lee Edelman, Jack Halberstam, and Lynne Huffer, and on the rhetoric of bad feelings found in the work of Sara Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, David Eng, Heather Love, and José Muñoz. Ruti highlights the ways in which queer theory's desire to opt out of normative society rewrites ethical theory and practice in genuinely innovative ways at the same time as she resists turning antinormativity into a new norm. This wide-ranging and thoughtful book maps the parameters of contemporary queer theory in order to rethink the foundational assumptions of the field.


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Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings : The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life
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ISBN: 9780231186681 9780231186698 9780231546768 0231546769 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press,

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Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal experience to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in contemporary everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud's idea of penis envy, Ruti's autotheoretical commentary fans out to a broader consideration of neoliberal pragmatism. She focuses on the emphasis on good performance, high productivity, constant self-improvement, and relentless cheerfulness that characterizes present-day Western society. Revealing the treacherousness of our fantasies of the good life, particularly the idea that our efforts will eventually be rewarded-that things will eventually get better-Ruti demystifies the false hope that often causes us to tolerate an unbearable present.Theoretically rigorous and lucidly written, Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings is a trenchant critique of contemporary gender relations. Refuting the idea that we live in a postfeminist world where gender inequalities have been transcended, Ruti describes how neoliberal heteropatriarchy has transformed itself in subtle and stealthy, and therefore all the more insidious, ways. Mobilizing Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics, Jacques Lacan's account of desire, and Lauren Berlant's notion of cruel optimism, she analyzes the rationalization of intimacy, the persistence of gender stereotypes, and the pornification of heterosexual culture. Ruti shines a spotlight on the depression, anxiety, frustration, and disenchantment that frequently lie beneath our society's sugarcoated mythologies of self-fulfillment, romantic satisfaction, and professional success, speaking to all who are concerned about the emotional costs of the pressure-cooker ethos of our age.

Reinventing the soul : posthumanist theory and psychic life
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ISBN: 1590511239 9781590511237 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York: Other press,

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The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within: Lacan and the Immortal Within
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ISBN: 0823243141 0823243184 0823253635 Year: 2012 Publisher: Fordham University Press

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Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings : The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life
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ISBN: 0231546769 0231186681 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press,

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Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal experience to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in contemporary everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud's idea of penis envy, Ruti's autotheoretical commentary fans out to a broader consideration of neoliberal pragmatism. She focuses on the emphasis on good performance, high productivity, constant self-improvement, and relentless cheerfulness that characterizes present-day Western society. Revealing the treacherousness of our fantasies of the good life, particularly the idea that our efforts will eventually be rewarded-that things will eventually get better-Ruti demystifies the false hope that often causes us to tolerate an unbearable present.Theoretically rigorous and lucidly written, Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings is a trenchant critique of contemporary gender relations. Refuting the idea that we live in a postfeminist world where gender inequalities have been transcended, Ruti describes how neoliberal heteropatriarchy has transformed itself in subtle and stealthy, and therefore all the more insidious, ways. Mobilizing Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics, Jacques Lacan's account of desire, and Lauren Berlant's notion of cruel optimism, she analyzes the rationalization of intimacy, the persistence of gender stereotypes, and the pornification of heterosexual culture. Ruti shines a spotlight on the depression, anxiety, frustration, and disenchantment that frequently lie beneath our society's sugarcoated mythologies of self-fulfillment, romantic satisfaction, and professional success, speaking to all who are concerned about the emotional costs of the pressure-cooker ethos of our age.


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The singularity of being : Lacan and the immortal within.
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ISBN: 9780823243143 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Fordham university press

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