Learning from the High Priestess: Affect, Femme Care, and Somatic Practice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781478039310)

Vendor: Ann Cvetkovich
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Format: Paperback
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Learning from the High Priestess: Affect, Femme Care, and Somatic Practice

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Learning from the High Priestess: Affect, Femme Care, and Somatic Practice

$23.95
Format: Paperback
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In Learning from the High Priestess, Ann Cvetkovich integrates theory and somatic practice to assemble a survival guide for artists, academics, and activists in search of new strategies for social justice in times of trouble. Building on her previous work on why feelings matter to political action and intellectual inquiry, Cvetkovich shows how experiments in writing can be a form of affective and somatic practice. She uses four key themes--care, disability and madness, trauma and somatics, and breath--as launch points for reframing discourses of mental health in the direction of practices for decolonizing bodyminds and for the sensory experience of freedom. Engaging with writer/practitioners from Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Alison Bechdel to Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Staci Haines, and Kai Cheng Thom, and with particular emphasis on Black feminisms, Cvetkovich places femme care and embodied practice at the center of movements for social transformation.

Author: Ann Cvetkovich
ISBN-10: 1478039310
ISBN-13: 9781478039310
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/24/2026
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
By Ann Cvetkovich
By Ann Cvetkovich
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Ann Cvetkovich is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Depression: A Public Feeling and An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures, both published by Duke University Press.

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