Talia Welsh

Feminist Existentialism, Biopolitics, and Critical Phenomenology in a Time of Bad Health (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the personal value of healthy behavior, arguing that our modern tendency to praise or blame individuals for their health is politically and economically motivated and has reinforced growing health disparities between the wealthy and poor under the guise of individual responsibility.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000480658
• Artikelnr.: 62801383

Autorenporträt

Talia Welsh is UTAA Distinguished Service Professor & UC Foundation Professor of Philosophy and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA. She is the translator of Child Psychology & Pedagogy: Maurice Merleau-Ponty at the Sorbonne and the author of The Child as Natural Phenomenologist: Primal and Primary Experience in Merleau-Ponty's Psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter One The Good Health Imperative
Chapter Two A Critical Phenomenology of Health and Illness
Chapter Three Feminist Phenomenologies and Self-Regulating Bodies
Chapter Four Biopolitics and Personal Responsibility
Chapter Five Marxism, Reproductive Labor, and the Body as Fetish Object
Chapter Six Alternative Visions of Health-Somaesthetics and Innumerable Healths
Chapter Seven Toward an Existential Ethics of Working on the Self
Bibliography