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

Other author Campbell, Sue, 1956-
Other author Meynell, Letitia.
Other author Sherwin, Susan, 1947-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoUniversity Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press,
Descriptionvi, 277 p. ; 24 cm.
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Contents 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.
Abstract "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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LCCN 2008053957
ISBN9780271035222 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0271035226 (cloth : alk. paper)