Working with Affect in Feminist Readings: Disturbing Differences - Paperback

Dr Marianne Liljeström is Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. She has published articles on Nordic and Soviet women's history, and edited and written parts of three textbooks in Finnish on feminist theory and methodology. Her most recent publications include the co-edited anthology Models of Self. Russian Women's Autobiographical Texts (2000), and the edited volume Feminist Knowing - Discussions on Methodology (in Finnish, 2004). Her latest monograph Useful Selves: Russian Women's Autobiographical Texts from the Post-War Period was published in 2004.

Dr Susanna Paasonen is a research fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki. Her teaching and research interests include Internet research, feminist theory, pornography and popular culture. She is the author of Figures of Fantasy: Women, Internet and Cyberdiscourse (2005) as well as the co-editor of Women and Everyday Uses of the Internet: Agency & Identity (2002) and Pornification: Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture (2007). Her work has recently appeared in the journals Feminist Theory, The Velvet Light Trap and European Journal of Cultural Studies.