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New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment

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.

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New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment

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.

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New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment

New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment

New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment

New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783319723525
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication date: 03/12/2018
Series: Breaking Feminist Waves Series
Edition description: 1st ed. 2018
Pages: 252
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Clara Fischer is an EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre for Gender, Feminisms, and Sexualities, and Co-director of the John Dewey Research Project at University College Dublin, Ireland.

Luna Dolezal is a Lecturer in Medical Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Exeter, UK.

Table of Contents

1. Contested Terrains: New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment – Clara Fischer and Luna Dolezal

Part I – Normative Bodies, Ethics and Vulnerability

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

Part II – New Directions in Feminist Theory

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 Rodemeyer

7. Expressing the World: Merleau-Ponty and Feminist Debates on Nature/Culture – Kathleen Lennon

Part III – Sex, Violence and Public Policy

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 Sexual Violence in India – Namrata Mitra

Part IV – Pregnancy and Reproductive Technology

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

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“If corporeal feminism is one of the new frontiers of feminism, this volume is on the frontiers of that frontier. It includes some stimulating work on vulnerability, developing the idea that there are positives as well as negatives that emerge from this (necessary!) aspect of our embodiment. And it situates this and other facets of embodiment within wider modern/post-modern techno-culture, globalisation, and the neoliberalism which characterises a good deal of Western society at this time. The essays in this volume will rapidly become required reading in many women’s studies, gender studies and feminist studies courses.” (Katherine Morris, Oxford University, United Kingdom)

“In building on an existing reservoir of feminist scholarship and activism engaging with the question of embodiment, New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment takes the themes and analyses further to tease out the location and significance of such work in the contemporary neoliberal and globalised world. This innovative collection brings together established scholars with emerging voices across a diverse range of concerns that develop concepts like vulnerability as being central to feminist thought in both theory and practice. The result is a well-balanced yet provocative set of essays that challenge readers to rethink their own assumptions.” (Margrit Shildrick, Linkoping University, Sweden)

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