New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment (eBook)

Clara Fischer, Luna Dolezal (Herausgeber)

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2018 | 1. Auflage
252 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-3-319-72353-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Despite several decades of feminist activism and scholarship, women’s bodies continue to be sites of control and contention both materially and symbolically. Issues such as reproductive technologies, sexual violence, objectification, motherhood, and sex trafficking, among others, constitute ongoing, pressing concerns for women’s bodies in our contemporary milieu, arguably exacerbated in a neoliberal world where bodies are instrumentalized as sites of human capital. This book engages with these themes by building on the strong tradition of feminist thought focused on women’s bodies, and by making novel contributions that reflect feminists’ concerns—both theoretically and empirically—about gender and embodiment in the present context and beyond. The collection brings together essays from a variety of feminist scholars who deploy diverse theoretical approaches, including phenomenology, pragmatism, and new materialisms, in order to examine philosophically the question of the current status of gendered bodies through cutting-edge feminist theory.

Autor

Clara Fischer is an EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre for Gender, Feminisms, and Sexualities, and Co-director of the John Dewey Research Project at University College Dublin, Ireland.Luna Dolezal is a Lecturer in Medical Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Exeter, UK.  

Inhalt

1. Contested Terrains: New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment – Clara Fischer and Luna DolezalPart I – Normative Bodies, Ethics, and Vulnerability2. A Genealogy of Women’s (Un)Ethical Bodies – Gail Weiss3. The Normal Body: Female Bodies in Changing Contexts of Normalization and Optimization – Julia Jensen and Maren Wehrle4. How Do We Respond? Embodied Vulnerability and Forms of Responsiveness – Danielle PetherbridgePart II – New Directions in Feminist Theory5. Revisiting Feminist Matters in the Post-Linguistic Turn: John Dewey, New Materialisms, and Contemporary Feminist Thought – Clara Fischer6. Feminist and Transgender Tensions: An Inquiry into History, Methodological Paradigms, and Embodiment – Lanei M. Rodemeyer7. Expressing the World: Merleau-Ponty and Feminist Debates on Nature/Culture – Kathleen LennonPart III – Sex, Violence, and Public Policy8. Are Women’s Lives (Fully) Grievable? Gendered Framing and Sexual Violence – Dianna Taylor9. Sex Trafficking, Reproductive Rights, and Sovereign Borders: A Transnational Struggle Over Women’s Bodies – Diana Tietjens Meyers10. Routine Unrecognized Sexual Violence in India – Namrata MitraPart IV – Pregnancy and Reproductive Technology11. Performing Pregnant: An Aesthetic Investigation of Pregnancy – EL Putnam12. The Metaphors of Commercial Surrogacy: Rethinking the Materiality of Hospitality Through Pregnant Embodiment – Luna Dolezal

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.2.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Breaking Feminist Waves
• Reihe/Serie: Breaking Feminist Waves
• Zusatzinfo: XIV, 252 p.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Corporeal Feminism • Embodiment • Female Body • feminist theory • Gender and Sexuality • Gender theory
• ISBN-10: 3-319-72353-7 / 3319723537
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-72353-2 / 9783319723532