If you're feeling ready to branch out into the up-and-coming feminisms of today, why not get started with Sara Ahmed's The Cultural Politics of Emotion? Like other folks dipping their fingers into affect theory, Ahmed is interested in how emotions come with social and political baggage—baggage that we don't always recognize we're bringing along.
Is Sara Ahmed critical of emotional politics—and on that note, what is emotional politics, anyway? Does it mean she wants us to be more emotional, or less?
In Ahmed's view, what are the gender politics of emotion?