Against Affect Sally Cline Following the popular trend in

Following the popular trend in "bucket list" books

he discovers something that horrifies him and turns him in a new direction

tightly swaddled in conformities yet fevered in their illusions of romance

News reports at the time detailed that gruesome acts

requiring little more than advanced calculus and no measure theory

Against Affect Sally Cline Following the popular trend inAgainst Affect interrogates shibboleths of feeling and reason and their relationship with ideas of identity, gender, and freedom in the twenty first century. Lisa Downing starts with the familiar premise that emotion has been historically gendered and racialized since the Enlightenment, with women, people of color, and other nonnormative subjects associated with emotionality, and only white men with logic and reason. The "affective turn" in the