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On female body experience : "Throwing like a girl" and other essays / Iris Marion Young.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Young, Iris Marion, 1949-2006, author.
- Series:
- Studies in feminist philosophy.
- Studies in feminist philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminist theory.
- Women--Psychology.
- Women.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Human body--Social aspects.
- Human body.
- Sex role.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 177 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- "Throwing like a girl" and other essays
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- Written over two decades, these essays describe diverse aspects of women's lived body experience in modern Western societies. Young combines theoretical description of experience with normative evaluation of the unjust constraints on their freedom & opportunity that continue to burden many women.
- Contents:
- Lived body vs. gender : reflections on social structure and subjectivity
- Throwing like a girl : a phenomenology of feminine body comportment, motility, and spatiality
- Pregnant embodiment : subjectivity and alienation
- Women recovering our clothes
- Breasted experience : the look and the feeling
- Menstrual meditations
- House and home : feminist variations on a theme
- A room of one's own : old age, extended care, and privacy.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-83843-4
- 9786610838431
- 0-19-803663-9
- 1-4237-2044-X
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