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Suspended Munition: Mereology, Morphology, and the Mammary Biopolitics of Transmission in Simone Leigh’s Trophallaxis
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
What does the history of the breast, with its attendant racializing cleavages of being, do to traditions of comparison? Thinking across the scale of the cell, the breast, and embattled human sociality, this essay shifts black feminist critical attention from the posterior to the breast and suggests that thinking sociogenically troubles utopic interpretations of trophallaxis in the biological sciences and beyond.
e-flux Journal
Posted: December 10, 2019
Category
Race & Ethnicity, Gender, Colonialism & Imperialism, Literature
Subjects
Motherhood and Reproduction, Black Feminism, Biology