Critical Mexican Studies

Feminist Living as Resistance

Irmgard Emmelhainz

• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9780826502469
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Feminism & Feminist Theory
• Index: Social Sciences

Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures is an homage to a constellation of women writers, feminists, and creators whose voices draw a map of our current global political-environmental crisis and the interlinked massive violence, enabled by the denigration of life and human relationships. In a world in which "a woman's voice" exists in bodies called on to occupy important positions in corporations, government, and cultural and academic institutions, to work in factories, and to join the army—but whose bodies are systematically rendered vulnerable by gender violence and by the double burden imposed on them to perform both productive and reproductive labor—Emmelhainz asks: What is the task of thought and form in contemporary feminist-situated knowledge? Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures is a collection of essays rethinking feminist issues in the current context of the production of redundant populations, the omnipresence of the technosphere and environmental devastation, toxic relationships, toxic nationalisms, and more. These reflections and dialogues are an urgent attempt to resist the present in the company of the voices of women like bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, Leslie Jamison, Lina Meruane, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Chris Kraus, Alaíde Foppa, Lorena Wolffer, Sayak Valencia, Pip Day, Veronica Gonzalez Peña, Eimear McBride, Simone de Beauvoir, Elena Poniatowska, Susan Sontag, Margaret Randall, Simone Weil, Arundhati Roy, Marta Lamas, Paul B. Preciado, Dawn Marie Paley, Raquel Gutiérrez, Sara Eliassen, and Silvia Gruner. Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures continues the discussion on how to undo misogyny and dismantle heteropatriarchy's sublimating and denigrating tricks against women, which are intrinsically linked to colonialism and violence against the Earth.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• J’ai une voix de ce qu’on appelle “femme”
• Reasonable Murder
• A Sensorium of Violence
• Expressionist Postcard
• Love Revolution Fear Strike
• From Las niñas bien to the Primates of Park Avenue
• Mangomitas Postcard
• One on One: LakeVerea vs. Bellas Artes
• The Preprogrammed State of Being Happy
• Crisis of Relationality and Being/Having
• Abusive Love
• Water Running under the Bridge
• And Water Not Running
• Vulnerability
• More about Empathy
• Decolonization
• Maternity Slavery Rebellion Creativity Jouissance
• Voice Desire Body Difference Love
• Existential Eroticism and Modernism in Jeff Koons and Marcel Duchamp
• Postcard for Historias Propias (Stories of Our Own) by Lorena Wolffer
• The Pencil of Nature and Other Appropriations
• Cosmopolite Postcard
• Narcissism, Human Rights, and Postimperialist Utopias
• Palestine Today
• Chimalistac Postcard
• Uprooting, Rights, and State Violence
• COVID-19
• To Dismantle the Engine
• The New Normality
• Coda
• Notes
• Index