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UNINA9910479871503321 |
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Titolo |
Embodiment and agency / / edited by Sue Campbell, Letitia Meynell, and Susan Sherwin |
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University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2009] |
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©2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vi, 277 p. ) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Agent (Philosophy) |
Feminist theory |
Mind and body |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Minding bodies / Letitia Meynell -- Becoming embodied subjects -- Emotional metamorphoses : the role of others in becoming a subject / Kym Maclaren -- Racial grief and melancholic agency / Angela Failler -- A knowing that resided in my bones : sensuous embodiment and trans social movement / Alexis Shotwell -- The phrenological impulse and the morphology of character / Rebecca Kukla -- Personal identity, narrative integration, and embodiment / Catriona Mackenzie -- Bodily limits to autonomy : emotion, attitude, and self-defense / Sylvia Burrow -- Embodied relations, political contexts -- Relational existence and termination of lives : when embodiment precludes agency / Susan Sherwin -- A body no longer of one's own / Monique Lanoix -- Premature (m)othering : Levinasian ethics and the politics of fetal ultrasound imaging / Jacqueline M. Davies -- Inside the frame of the past : memory, diversity, and solidarity / Sue Campbell -- Collective memory or knowledge of the past : "covering reality with flowers" / Susan E. Babbitt -- Agency and empowerment : embodied realities in a globalized world / Christine M. Koggel. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"A collection of essays in feminist philosophy. Contributors theorize how we act through differently acculturated bodies in a variety of interpersonal and political contexts. Addresses recent feminist challenges to bring the body more fully and positively into theory"--Provided by publisher. |
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