Embodiment and agency
by Campbell, Sue Meynell, Letitia Sherwin, Susan
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, has often been limited to analyzing how specific modes of socialized embodiment can be impediments to agency or autonomy. Embodiment and Agency is distinctive in bringing a remarkable range of theor…
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- Full title :Embodiment and agency / edited by Sue Campbell, Letitia Meynell, and Susan Sherwin.
Summary
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, has often been limited to analyzing how specific modes of socialized embodiment can be impediments to agency or autonomy. Embodiment and Agency is distinctive in bringing a remarkable range of theoretical perspectives and resources to the project in ways that stress possibilities as well as constraints. Contributors utilize, for example, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, care ethics, analytic philosophy, Hegelian critique, and postcolonial theory to examine embodiment and agency in contexts ranging from a child's struggle to find her own identity to global politics. The volume is integrated through its theme, through an introductory essay situating the contributions in relation to each other and to current feminist theory on agency, and through the structuring of the contents into two distinct sections.
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- Publication Date:2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Pennsylvania State University Press
- Place of Publication:University Park, PA
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:VI, 277 p. ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780271035222, 0271035226
- oclc:on1137116704
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