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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300619503321

Titolo

New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment / / edited by Clara Fischer, Luna Dolezal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319723532

3319723537

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Breaking Feminist Waves, , 2945-7009

Disciplina

261.8341

Soggetti

Feminism

Feminist theory

Ethnology

Sex

Critical theory

Feminism and Feminist Theory

Sociocultural Anthropology

Gender Studies

Critical Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Contested Terrains: New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment - Clara Fischer and Luna Dolezal -- 2. A Genealogy of Women's (Un)Ethical Bodies - Gail Weiss -- 3. The Normal Body: Female Bodies in Changing Contexts of Normalization and Optimization - Julia Jensen and Maren Wehrle -- 4. How Do We Respond? Embodied Vulnerability and Forms of Responsiveness - Danielle Petherbridge -- 5. Revisiting Feminist Matters in the Post-Linguistic Turn: John Dewey, New Materialisms, and Contemporary Feminist Thought - Clara Fischer -- 6. Feminist and Transgender Tensions: An Inquiry into History, Methodological Paradigms and Embodiment - Lanei M. Rodemeyer -- 7. Expressing the World: Merleau-Ponty and Feminist Debates on Nature/Culture - Kathleen Lennon -- 8. Are Women's Lives (Fully)



Grievable? Gendered Framing and Sexual Violence - Dianna Taylor.-9. Sex Trafficking, Reproductive Rights, and Sovereign Borders: A Transnational Struggle Over Women's Bodies - Diana Tietjens Meyers -- 10. Routine Unrecognized Sexual Violence in India - Namrata Mitra.-11. Performing Pregnant: An Aesthetic Investigation of Pregnancy - EL Putnam -- 12. The Metaphors of Commercial Surrogacy: Rethinking the Materiality of Hospitality Through Pregnant Embodiment - Luna Dolezal.

Sommario/riassunto

Despite several decades of feminist activism and scholarship, women's bodies continue to be sites of control and contention both materially and symbolically. Issues such as reproductive technologies, sexual violence, objectification, motherhood, and sex trafficking, among others, constitute ongoing, pressing concerns for women's bodies in our contemporary milieu, arguably exacerbated in a neoliberal world where bodies are instrumentalized as sites of human capital. This book engages with these themes by building on the strong tradition of feminist thought focused on women's bodies, and by making novel contributions that reflect feminists' concerns-both theoretically and empirically-about gender and embodiment in the present context and beyond. The collection brings together essays from a variety of feminist scholars who deploy diverse theoretical approaches, including phenomenology, pragmatism, and new materialisms, in order to examine philosophically the question of the current status of gendered bodies through cutting-edge feminist theory.