Belief, Bodies, and Being

Feminist Reflections on Embodiment

Deborah Orr (Author) , Linda López McAlister (Author) , Eileen Kahl (Author) , Kathleen Earle (Author)
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Belief, Bodies, and Being

Feminist Reflections on Embodiment

Deborah Orr (Author) , Linda López McAlister (Author) , Eileen Kahl (Author) , Kathleen Earle (Author)
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InBelief, Bodies, and Being, twelve distinguished contributors present diverse and illuminating viewpoints on feminist issues of embodiement, materialism, and agency from feminist and postmodernist philosophical perspectives. Beginnning by positing non-traditional ways of approaching ontological concerns (through the acknowledgement of agential realties and the usage of an ontology of tropes), the volume concludes by addressing highly specific, culturally constituted types of postmodern bodies (monstrous, anorexic, and pharmaceutical bodies).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Thinking Through the Body: An Introduction to Beliefs, Bodies and Being
Chapter 4 Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter
Chapter 5 Monstrous Reflections on the Mirror of the Self-Same
Chapter 6 Ontology and Feminism
Chapter 7 Diotima, Wittgenstein and a Language for Liberation
Chapter 8 Re-situating the Feminine in Contemporary French Philosophy
Chapter 9 Being and Time, Non-Being and Space... Introductory Notes Toward an Ontological Stude of 'Women'
Chapter 10 To Take a Chance with Meaning under the Veil of Words: Transpositions, Mothers and Learning in Julia Kristeva's Theory of Language
Chapter 11 In Search of the Body in the Cave: Luce Irigaray's Ethics of Embodiment
Chapter 12 Reconsidering the Notion of the Body in Anti-essentialism, With the Help of Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler
Chapter 13 Butler's Sophisticated Constructivism: A Critical Assessment
Chapter 14 A Critique of Feminist Radical Constructionism
Chapter 15 Applying Time to Feminist Philosophy of the Body
Chapter 16 Contributors
Chapter 17 Index

Product details

Published Apr 13 2006
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 232
ISBN 9780742514140
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

DO
Author

Deborah Orr

LM
Author

Linda López McAlister

EK
Author

Eileen Kahl

KE
Author

Kathleen Earle

Reviews

  • These essays range from a discussion of the classical figure of Diotima to the contemporary work of Judith Butler, from reflections on Niels Bohr's philosophy-physics to reflections on monstrous bodies. The authors reflect on the multiplicity of bodies, which has been a core issue for feminist theory during the last fifty years. Belief, Bodies and Being provides English-speaking readers with access to work by contemporary European feminist philosophers - from France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands - in addition to work by North American authors, illustrating how combining classical training in philosophy with current feminist debates brings new light to bear on both philosophy and feminist theory.

    Robin May Schott, Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies

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