Belief, bodies, and being
Subtitle: feminist reflections on embodiment
By: edited by Deborah Orr ... [et al.].
Contributors: Orr, Deborah, 1946-
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Feminist theory; Body, Human
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thinking through the body : an introduction to beliefs, bodies, and being / Deborah Orr; title: Posthumanist performativity : toward an understanding of how matter comes to matter / Karen Barad; title: Monstrous reflections on the mirror of the self-same / Margrit Shildrick; title: Ontology and feminism / Käthe Trettin; title: Diotima, Wittgenstein, and a language for liberation / Deborah Orr; title: Re-situating the feminine in contemporary French philosophy / Louise Burchill; title: Being and time, non-being and space : introductory notes toward an ontological study of 'woman' and chora' / Jana Braziel; title: To take a chance with meaning under the veil of words : transpositions, mothers, and learning in Julia Kristeva's theory of language / Bettina Schmitz; title: In search of the body in the cave : Luce Irigaray's ethics of embodiment / Tonja van den Ende; title: Reconsidering the notion of the body in anti-essentialism, with the help of Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler / Annemie Halsema; title: Butler's sophisticated constructivism : a critical assessment / Veronica Vasterling; title: A critique of feminist radical constructionism / Saskia Wendel; title: Applying time to feminist philosophy of the body / Lanei Rodemeyer.