Embodiment and agency

by Campbell, Sue Meynell, Letitia Sherwin, Susan

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"A collection of essays in feminist philosophy. Contributors theorize how we act through differently acculturated bodies in a variety of interpersonal and political contexts. Addresses recent feminist challenges to bring the body more fully and positively into theory"--Provided by publisher

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Full title :Embodiment and agency / edited by Sue Campbell, Letitia Meynell, and Susan Sherwin.

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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:1 online resource (vi, 277 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780271079509, 0271079509
DOI:10.4159/9780271079509
oclc:ocn978351521
LC Classification:HQ1190
Dewey Decimal:306.4

Introduction: Minding bodies / Letitia Meynell -- Becoming embodied subjects -- Emotional metamorphoses : the role of others in becoming a subject / Kym Maclaren -- Racial grief and melancholic agency / Angela Failler -- A knowing that resided in my bones : sensuous embodiment and trans social movement / Alexis Shotwell -- The phrenological impulse and the morphology of character / Rebecca Kukla -- Personal identity, narrative integration, and embodiment / Catriona Mackenzie -- Bodily limits to autonomy : emotion, attitude, and self-defense / Sylvia Burrow -- Embodied relations, political contexts -- Relational existence and termination of lives : when embodiment precludes agency / Susan Sherwin -- A body no longer of one's own / Monique Lanoix -- Premature (m)othering : Levinasian ethics and the politics of fetal ultrasound imaging / Jacqueline M. Davies -- Inside the frame of the past : memory, diversity, and solidarity / Sue Campbell -- Collective memory or knowledge of the past : "covering reality with flowers" / Susan E. Babbitt -- Agency and empowerment : embodied realities in a globalized world / Christine M. Koggel.

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Agent (Philosophy) Feminist theory Feministische Philosophie Leiblichkeit Mind and body POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist T… SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture Théorie féministe