Gender, Agency, and Coercion

Herausgegeben:Madhok, S.; Phillips, A.; Wilson, K.; Loparo, Kenneth A.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-30032-3
• 2013
• Seitenzahl: 289
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9780230300323
• ISBN-10: 0230300324
• Artikelnr.: 36271897

Autorenporträt

SAMANTHA ASHENDEN Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK NGAIRE DONAGHUE Associate Professor of Social Psychology in the School of Psychology at Murdoch University, Western Australia, Australia MARY EVANS Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, UK ROSALIND GILL Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at King's College London, UK CLARE HEMMINGS Professor of Gender Studies and Gender Theory at the London School of Economics, UK MARSHA HENRY Lecturer in Gender, Development and Globalisation at the London School of Economics, UK KIMBERLY HUTCHINGS Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, UK EMILY JACKSON Professor of Law at the London School of Economics, UK AMAL TREACHER KABESH Associate Professor in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, UK LOIS MCNAY Professor of Political Theory at Oxford University, UK SADIE WEARING Lecturer in Gender, Media and Culture at the London School of Economics, UK HEATHER WIDDOWS Professor of Global Ethics in the Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; S.Madhok, A.Phillips & K.Wilson Choosers or Losers? Feminist Ethical and Political Agency in a Plural and Unequal World; K.Hutchings The Feminist Subject of Agency: Recognition and Affect in Encounters with 'the Other'; C.Hemmings & A.Kabesh The Meaning of Agency; M.Evans The Unbearable Lightness of Theory: Political Ontology and Social Weightlessness in Mouffe's Radical Democracy; L.McNay Agency as 'Smart Economics': Neoliberalism, Gender and Development; K.Wilson Action, Agency, Coercion: Reformatting Agency for Oppressive Contexts; S.Madhok Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in UN Peacekeeping Missions: Problematising Current Responses; M.Henry Does the Body Make a Difference?; A.Phillips Rejecting the Choice Paradigm: Rethinking the Ethical Framework in Prostitution and Egg Sale Debates; H.Widdows Compensating Egg Donors; E.Jackson Reproblematising Relations of Agency and Coercion: Surrogacy; S.Ashenden Representing Agency and Coercion: Feminist Readings and Postfeminist Media Fictions; S.Wearing As if Postfeminism had come True: the Turn to Agency in Cultural Studies of 'Sexualisation'; R.Gill & N.Donaghue Afterword; S.Madhok, A.Phillips & K.Wilson