Table of Contents

Contents
Complexity and Complicity: An Introduction to Constitutive Impurity
1. Remembering for the Future: Reckoning with an Unjust Past
2. “Women Don’t Get AIDS, They Just Die From It”: Memory, Classification, and the Campaign to Change the Definition of AIDS
3. Shimmering Presences: Frog, Toad, and Toxic Interdependencies
4. Consuming Suffering: Eating, Energy, and Embodied Ethics
5. Practicing Freedom: Disability and Gender Transformation
6. Worlds to Come: Imagining Speculative Disability Futures
Conclusion: The Point, However, is to Change It
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Alexis Shotwell is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, and the Department of Philosophy, at Carleton University. She is the author of Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding.

Reviews

Exciting, original, and intellectually stimulating, Against Purity makes a clear and compelling argument for a politics of relationality that resists the demand for purity. Even as Alexis Shotwell challenges the basic assumptions of ethical and political philosophy, she also builds pathways for more conventional thinkers to find their way into her discourse.-Lisa Guenther, author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives