Embodiment and agency
By: edited by Sue Campbell, Letitia Meynell, and Susan Sherwin.
Contributors: Campbell, Sue, 1956-; Meynell, Letitia.; Sherwin, Susan, 1947-
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780271035222
Subjects: Feminist theory; Agent (Philosophy); Mind and body
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Minding bodies / Letitia Meynell; title: Becoming embodied subjects; title: Emotional metamorphoses : the role of others in becoming a subject / Kym Maclaren; title: Racial grief and melancholic agency / Angela Failler; title: A knowing that resided in my bones : sensuous embodiment and trans social movement / Alexis Shotwell; title: The phrenological impulse and the morphology of character / Rebecca Kukla; title: Personal identity, narrative integration, and embodiment / Catriona Mackenzie; title: Bodily limits to autonomy : emotion, attitude, and self-defense / Sylvia Burrow; title: Embodied relations, political contexts; title: Relational existence and termination of lives : when embodiment precludes agency / Susan Sherwin; title: A body no longer of one's own / Monique Lanoix; title: Premature (m)othering : levinasian ethics and the politics of fetal ultrasound imaging / Jacqueline M. Davies; title: Inside the frame of the past : memory, diversity, and solidarity / Sue Campbell; title: Collective memory or knowledge of the past : "covering reality with flowers" / Susan E.  Babbitt; title: Agency and empowerment : embodied realities in a globalized world / Christine Koggel.