Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others

My research (in the humanities) is focused on gender, orientation, and Hip Hop and while this book does not talk about that specifically, the analysis of orientations and perception through a phenomenological lens is excellent and helps me work through how I think about my own work!As well, this book is remarkably approachable for what is certainly a high academic text.

The author is very thorough in her writing, but she can be very repetitive in how she explains the work and and vague. The subject matter is very interesting and I would definitely recommend if you're interested in Phenomenology, even for those new to the subject. Just know that you'll need to read through ill-defined sections.

Sara Ahmed is great writer and in this book she deftly uses phenomenology to analyze how gender, sexuality and racialization become structured through ways bodies are situated and acquire tendencies. She also touches on also how through a reorientation of bodies and tendencies different objects/modes of existence come within reach. For those readers who are already involved with cultural studies or feminist theory, this book will be easy to read on its own, but it can also be enhanced if one has read a bit of Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty or at least introductions to their work.

Sarah Ahmed is a visionary. Buy anything she publishes!!!

This is a great book. The author's line of thought is very new and queer. She goes from basic everyday examples to the thoughts of great filosopher's, making simpler to understand her thoughts and theirs in contrast.

Lucidly written without academic mumbo-jumbo. This is a brilliant and necessary book.

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Sara Ahmed is my hero. This book shaped the way that i view the world. she beautifully lays out phenomenology, and then takes it to the next level. Her description of 'queering'lines of perception bring into question what we know, and challenge the reader to appreciate and understand discomfort. I think everyone, queer or straight, should read this. By far the best book i read in college

Sara Ahmed is genius. Love her work. Need to read all her books.

amazing book

Excellent!