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Embodiment and agency / edited by Sue Campbell, Letitia Meynell, and Susan Sherwin.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agent (Philosophy).
- Feminist theory.
- Mind and body.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 277 p. )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271079509
- 0271079509
- OCLC:
- 1080551514
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