Books by Elspeth Probyn

Why read Sustaining Seas? It is as simple as this: the seas sustain all life. This edited book emerges from conversations across several disciplines, and including practitioners of different specialities (artists, writers, planners, policy makers) about how to sustain the seas, as they sustain us.

Moving away from a simplified food politics that is largely land based, Elspeth Probyn looks at food politics from an ocean-centric perspective by tracing the global movement of several marine species to explore the complex and entangled relationship between humans and fish.

This study proposes a model of identity that takes into account the desires of individuals, and groups of individuals, to belong. It articulates, in concrete terms, precise concerns about sexuality and nationality, and analyzes terms such as "the outside", "the surface" and "belonging".

Probyn, arguing for "feminism with attitude", ranges across a wide range of theoretical strands, drawing upon a body of literature from early cultural studies to Anglo-American feminist literary criticism.

Exposes shame as a valuable emotion essential to our humanity.