Living across and through skins : transactional bodies, pragmatism, and feminism / Shannon Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sullivan, Shannon, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body (Philosophy).

Ecology.

Pragmatism.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores the dynamic relationship between bodies and the world around them.What if we lived across and through our skins as much as we do within them? According to Shannon Sullivan, the notion of bodies in transaction with their social, political, cultural, and physical surroundings is not new. Early in the 20th century, John Dewey elaborated human existence as a set of patterns of behavior or actions shaped by the environment. Underscoring the continued relevance of his thought, Sullivan brings

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION: Transactional Bodies after Dewey; ONE: Living Across and Through Skins, Bodies in Transaction; TWO: Discursivity and Materiality, The Lived Experience of Transactional Bodies; THREE: Communicating with Another Transaction and Merleau-Ponty 's Phenomenology of Corporeal Existence; FOUR: Reconfiguring Gender - Habit, Bodies, and Cultural Change; FIVE: Transactional Somaesthetics - Nietzsche, Women, and the Transformation of Bodily Experience; SIX: Transactional Knowing - Toward a Pragmatist-Feminist Standpoint Theory

CONCLUSION: Transaction and the Dynamic Distinctiveness of RacesNotes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-200) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-06297-2

0-253-10911-6

OCLC:

613363476