Embodiment and agency / / edited by Sue Campbell, Letitia Meynell, and Susan Sherwin

• Pubblicazione: University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 277 p. )
• Disciplina: 306.4
• Soggetto topico: Agent (Philosophy); Feminist theory; Mind and body
• Persona (resp. second.): MeynellLetitia; SherwinSusan <1947->; CampbellSue <1956->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Embodiment and agency
• ISBN: 0-271-07950-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810830303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II