Embodied Selves (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Gonzalez-Arnal, S.; Lennon, K.; Jagger, G.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137283696
• Artikelnr.: 38271784

Autorenporträt

LINDA MARTÍN ALCOFF Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, USA STEPHEN BURWOOD Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hull, UK MADDY COY Deputy Director of CWASU in London Metropolitan University, UK PAUL GILBERT Emeritus Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hull, UK MINAE INAHARA Lecturer at Rikkyo University, Japan LOIS MCNAY Professor of Theory of Politics, Department of International Relations, at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Somerville College, UK ALEXA SCHRIEMPF ABD in Philosophy and Women's Studies at Penn State University, USA JACKIE LEACH SCULLY Reader in Social and Bioethics at Newcastle University, UK MAGRIT SHILDRICK Reader in Gender Studies at Queens University, Belfast, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Gender and Reproduction; L.Alcoff Biology and the Metaphysics of Sex Difference; K.Lennon 'All human beings are pregnant, both in body and in soul': The Bisexual Imaginary in Plato's Symposium ; S.Sandford Personal Identity and Transsexual Narratives; S.Gonzalez-Arnal The Embodiment of Cultural Identity; P.Gilbert This Body Which is not Mine: The Nnotion of the Habit Body, Prostitution and (Dis)embodiment; M.Coy Turned into Body by the Other; S.Burwood Disability and the Thinking Body; J.Leach Scully Hearing deafness: Subjectness, Articulateness and Communicability; A.Schriempf The Voice of Pain: The Semiotic and Embodied Subjectivity; M.Inahara Hospitality and 'the Gift of Life': Reconfiguring the Other in Heart Transplantation; M.Shildrick Embodied Subjectivity, Power and Resistance: Bourdieu and Butler on the Problem of Determinism; G.Jagger Suffering, Silence and Social Weightlessness: Honneth and Bourdieu on Embodiment and Power; L.McNay