thinking bodies: a feminist philosophy podcast
thinking bodies is a feminist philosophy podcast for newcomers and lifelong learners of feminist philosophy. Drs Anna Mudde and Kristin Rodier crowd source voice clips from feminist philosophers (broadly construed) and use them to bring concepts to life. We are doing philosophy conversations differently, one episode at a time.
thinking bodies: a feminist philosophy podcast
Purity, Impurity and Separation
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What happens when we stop trying to keep ourselves—and the world—neatly separated? In this episode of thinking bodies, Anna Mudde and Kristin Rodier explore María Lugones’s “Purity, Impurity, and Separation” (1994), a powerful feminist philosophy of multiplicity, domination, and resistance--one that is relevant for current discussions of purity politics, among other things.
With contributions from Adriana Rincón-Villegas and Brooke Rudow, we unpack Lugones’s critique of the “logic of purity,” her concept of mestizaje, and the ways social categories divide, simplify, and control complex lives.
Plus!--mayonnaise and the radical possibility of being gloriously impure.
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Keywords: purity politics, María Lugones; Purity, Impurity, and Separation; feminist philosophy; purity politics; logic of purity; mestizaje; multiplicity; decolonial feminism; Latina feminism; oppression; logic of purity; purity politics; feminist theory; feminist philosophy of oppression; plurality; difference; mixed identities; intersectionality; domination; resistance
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