Belief, bodies, and being : feminist reflections on embodiment / edited by Deborah Orr ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Orr, Deborah, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Human body.

Physical Description:

viii, 220 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2006]

Summary:

In Belief, Bodies, and Being, thirteen distinguished contributors present diverse and illuminating viewpoints on the issues of embodiment, materialism, and agency from feminist and postmodernist philosophical perspectives. Beginning by positing non-traditional ways of approaching ontological concerns (through the acknowledgment of agential realities and the usage of an ontology of tropes), the volume concludes by addressing highly specific, culturally constituted types of postmodern bodies, including monstrous, anorexic, and pharmaceutical bodies.

Contents:

Thinking through the body : an introduction to beliefs, bodies, and being / Deborah Orr

Posthumanist performativity : toward an understanding of how matter comes to matter / Karen Barad

Monstrous reflections on the mirror of the self-same / Margrit Shildrick

Ontology and feminism / Käthe Trettin

Diotima, Wittgenstein, and a language for liberation / Deborah Orr

Re-situating the feminine in contemporary French philosophy / Louise Burchill

Being and time, non-being and space

(introductory notes toward an ontological study of 'woman' and chora) / Jana Evans Braziel

"To take a chance with meaning under the veil of words" : transpositions, mothers, and learning in Julia Kristeva's theory of language / Bettina Schmitz

In search of the body in the cave : Luce Irigaray's ethics of embodiment / Tonja van den Ende

Reconsidering the notion of the body in anti-essentialism, with the help of Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler / Annemie Halsema

Butler's sophisticated constructionism : a critical assessment / Veronica Vasterling

A critique of feminist radical constructionism / Saskia Wendel

Applying time to feminist philosophy of the body / Lanei M. Rodemeyer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0742514145

0742514153

OCLC:

61757944

Publisher Number:

9780742514140 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780742514157 (pbk. : alk. paper)