Embodied Selves [electronic resource] /
Gonzalez-Arnal, S.editor.
Jagger, G.editor.
Lennon, K.editor.
This interdisciplinary collection explores the role the body plays in constituting our sense of self, signalling the interplay between material embodiment, social meaning, and material and social conditions.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Gender and Reproduction; 2 Biology and the Metaphysics of Sex Difference; 3 'All Human Beings Are Pregnant, Both in Body and in Soul': The Bisexual Imaginary in Plato's Symposium; 4 Personal Identity and Transsexual Narratives; 5 The Embodiment of Cultural Identity; 6 This Body Which Is Not Mine: The Notion of the Habit Body, Prostitution and (Dis)embodiment; 7 Turned into Body by the Other; 8 Disability and the Thinking Body; 9 Hearing Deafness: Subjectness, Articulateness and Communicability
10 The Voice of Pain: The Semiotic and Embodied Subjectivity11 Hospitality and 'the Gift of Life': Reconfiguring the Other in Heart Transplantation; 12 Embodied Subjectivity, Power and Resistance: Bourdieu and Butler on the Problem of Determinism; 13 Suffering, Silence and Social Weightlessness: Honneth and Bourdieu on Embodiment and Power; Index
Includes bibliographical references.
This interdisciplinary collection explores the role the body plays in constituting our sense of self, signalling the interplay between material embodiment, social meaning, and material and social conditions.
Human body—Social aspects.
Feminist theory.
Sociology.
Philosophy of mind.
Self.
Identity (Psychology).
Sociology of the Body.
Feminism.
Sociology, general.
Gender Studies.
Philosophy of Mind.
Self and Identity.