Gender, Agency, and Coercion [electronic resource] /
Madhok, Sumi.editor.
Phillips, Anne.editor.
Wilson, Kalpana.editor.
Drawing on recent feminist discussions, this collection critically reassesses ideas about agency, exploring the relationship between agency and coercion in greater depth and across a range of disciplinary perspectives and ethical contexts.
Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Choosers or Losers? Feminist Ethical and Political Agency in a Plural and Unequal World; 3 The Feminist Subject of Agency: Recognition and Affect in Encounters with 'the Other'; 4 The Meaning of Agency; 5 The Unbearable Lightness of Theory: Political Ontology and Social Weightlessness in Mouffe's Radical Democracy; 6 Agency as 'Smart Economics': Neoliberalism, Gender and Development; 7 Action, Agency, Coercion: Reformatting Agency for Oppressive Contexts
8 Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in UN Peacekeeping Missions: Problematising Current Responses9 Does the Body Make a Difference?; 10 Rejecting the Choice Paradigm: Rethinking the Ethical Framework in Prostitution and Egg Sale Debates; 11 Compensating Egg Donors; 12 Reproblematising Relations of Agency and Coercion: Surrogacy; 13 Representing Agency and Coercion: Feminist Readings and Postfeminist Media Fictions; 14 As if Postfeminism Had Come True: The Turn to Agency in Cultural Studies of 'Sexualisation'; 15 Afterword; Index
Includes index.
Drawing on recent feminist discussions, this collection critically reassesses ideas about agency, exploring the relationship between agency and coercion in greater depth and across a range of disciplinary perspectives and ethical contexts.
Sociology.
Feminist theory.
Social policy.
Political science.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Gender Studies.
Feminism.
Social Policy.
Political Science.
Cultural Studies.
Social Philosophy.