New feminist perspectives on embodiment /

New feminist perspectives on embodiment /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Fischer, Clara, 1980- (Editor), Dolezal, Luna (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Series:Breaking feminist waves.
Subjects:
Feminism.
Body image in women.
Women > Violence against.
Reproductive rights.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1: Contested Terrains: New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment; New Feminist Perspectives in This Volume; Bibliography; Part I: Normative Bodies, Ethics, and Vulnerability; Chapter 2: A Genealogy of Womenâ#x80;#x99;s (Un)Ethical Bodies; Part 1: The Body as a Threat to Ethics; Part 2: The Body as the Foundation for Ethical Theory and Practice; Bibliography; Further Readings; Chapter 3: The Normal Body: Female Bodies in Changing Contexts of Normalization and Optimization
  • Twofold Embodiment: The Body as Subject and the Body as ObjectA Phenomenology of Normality and Optimality; Normalization and Optimization of Female Bodies; (Self-)Normalization and Control of Neoliberal Female Bodies; Conclusion: What Now?; Bibliography; Chapter 4: How Do We Respond? Embodied Vulnerability and Forms of Responsiveness; Embodied Vulnerability: Between  Wounding and Caring; How Are We to Respond? Vulnerability and Acknowledgment; Embodied Knowledge, Vulnerability and Responsiveness; Bibliography; Part II: New Directions in Feminist Theory
  • Chapter 5: Revisiting Feminist Matters in the  Post-­Linguistic Turn: John Dewey, New Materialisms, and Contemporary Feminist ThoughtPragmatist Silences and Echoes in the  Post-Linguistic Turn New School of Feminism; Tracing Transaction Across Pragmatist and New Materialist Ontologies; Baradâ#x80;#x99;s â#x80;#x9C;Intra-actionâ#x80;#x9D; in a Diffractive, Butlerian-Bohrian Ontology; Alaimoâ#x80;#x99;s â#x80;#x9C;Trans-corporealityâ#x80;#x9D; in the â#x80;#x9C;Ethical Space of Natureâ#x80;#x9D;; Deweyâ#x80;#x99;s â#x80;#x9C;Transactingâ#x80;#x9D; Organism in a Naturalist Ontology; The Promise of Pragmatism for Contemporary Feminism; Bibliography
  • Chapter 6: Feminist and Transgender Tensions: An Inquiry into History, Methodological Paradigms, and EmbodimentSex/Gender; Queer Approaches to Sex and Gender21; The Phenomenological Method; Trans/Feminisms; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Expressing the World: Merleau-Ponty and Feminist Debates on Nature/Culture; Culture Constructs Nature; What If Culture Was Really Nature All Along?20; Expressing the World; Sexed Difference Revisited; Conclusion; Bibliography; Part III: Sex, Violence, and Public Policy
  • Chapter 8: Are Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Lives (Fully) Grievable? Gendered Framing and Sexual ViolenceSexual Violence/Moral Ambivalence; Butler on Framing and Grievability; Gender as a Frame of Recognition; Gendered Framing and Sexual Violence; (Self)Critical Feminist Framing and Resistance; Bibliography; Chapter 9: Sex Trafficking, Reproductive Rights, and Sovereign Borders: A Transnational Struggle over Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Bodies; Asylum Rights and Victims of Sex Trafficking; An Agency-Denying Victim Paradigm; Bibliography; Chapter 10: Routine Unrecognized Sexual Violence in India