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'Mamaiaith: poetics in commotion'

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Gestures: A Body of Work, Pages: 130 - 138

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Gestures: A body of work is a cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to 'gesture' that considers the term's complex registers across embodied, aesthetic and political scenes. Attending to gestural movements, languages, feelings and communications, the book argues that ge...

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Published in: Gestures: A Body of Work
ISBN: 9781526168498
Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 2025
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