Preface

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size

We wish to thank the editors of Women: A Cultural Review for their confidence in our editing of this special issue. We wish to thank the anonymous reviewer for her/his generous and constructive feedback on the issue and its individual contributions. We thank the authors and collaborators, including Beatriz Revelles Benavente and Felicity Colman, for working with us on feminist new materialism and the question of politics. We would like to extend our thanks also to those who have assisted with the editing of the contributions: Sophie Chapple and Frances Chapman. Peta Hinton's contribution to this issue has been sponsored by a Third Country Visiting Scholar scholarship with the Erasmus Mundus Master's Degree in Women's and Gender Studies programme (5th edition), and Iris van der Tuin's has been sponsored by the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni (275-20-029) of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.

Notes

1 We use ‘third wave’ along the lines of Colebrook and van der Tuin (Colebrook 2004; van der Tuin 2009)—i.e. third-wave feminist theory signifies work that is not predicated on the sex–gender distinction or mind–matter, nature–culture and word–world splits. This implies that both third-wave feminist work and non-dualist scholarship are spatio-temporally transversal notations, as we explain in this introduction.

2 For an insightful introduction to the affective turn and feminist politics in relation to images and bodies, see Papenburg and Zarzycka (2013).