Embodiment and Agency /

Embodiment and Agency / / ed. by Sue Campbell, Susan Sherwin, Letitia Meynell.

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Themes of embodiment and agency have long been central to feminist philosophical thought and have increasingly led feminists to extend their theorizing to encompass a range of identities shaped by processes of gender, race, class, disability, and sexuality. The intersection of these themes, however,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
MitwirkendeR:
Babbitt, Susan E.,
Burrow, Sylvia,
Campbell, Sue,
Davies, Jacqueline M.,
Failler, Angela,
Koggel, Christine M.,
Kukla, Rebecca,
Lanoix, Monique,
Mackenzie, Catriona,
Maclaren, Kym,
Meynell, Letitia,
Sherwin, Susan,
Shotwell, Alexis,
HerausgeberIn:
Campbell, Sue,
Meynell, Letitia,
Sherwin, Susan,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2009
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 3 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction: Minding Bodies
  • PART I: BECOMING EMBODIED SUBJECTS
  • 1 Emotional Metamorphoses: The Role of in Becoming a Subject
  • 2 Racial Grief and Melancholic Agency
  • 3 A Knowing That Resided in My Bones: Sensuous Embodiment and Trans Social Movement
  • 4 The Phrenological Impulse and the Morphology of Character
  • 5 Personal Identity, Narrative Integration, and Embodiment
  • 6 Bodily Limits to Autonomy: Emotion, Attitude, and Self-Defense
  • PART II: EMBODIED RELATIONS, POLITICAL CONTEXTS
  • 7 Relational Existence and Termination of Lives: When Embodiment Precludes Agency
  • 8 A Body No Longer of One’s Own
  • 9 Premature (M)Othering: Levinasian Ethics and the Politics of Fetal Ultrasound Imaging
  • 10 Inside the Frame of the Past: Memory, Diversity, and Solidarity
  • 11 Collective Memory or Knowledge of the Past: “Covering Reality with Flowers”
  • 12 Agency and Empowerment: Embodied Realities in a Globalized World
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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