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Fear and Hope: Author's Response

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Gail Mason
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Abstract

This response seeks to pick up on the key questions and concerns raised by Nancy C. M. Hartsock and Karen Houle in their critiques of The Spectacle of Violence. I mold my response around two emotions that are never far from the question of violence: fear and hope. Is it fear of ambiguity that stops us from delicately blending the experiential with the discursive, the nodal with the circular, the corporeal with the epistemic, or the oppressive with the constitutive? If so, we can only hope that the power of such ambivalence lies in its ability to unsettle these treasured lines of force.

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Symposium: The Spectacle of Violence: Homophobia, Gender, and Knowledge
Information
Hypatia , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , Spring 2006 , pp. 196 - 206
Copyright
Copyright © 2006 by Hypatia, Inc.

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