New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment (eBook)

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.  

1. Contested Terrains: New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment – Clara Fischer and Luna DolezalPart I – Normative Bodies, Ethics, and Vulnerability2. A Genealogy of Women’s (Un)Ethical Bodies – Gail Weiss3. The Normal Body: Female Bodies in Changing Contexts of Normalization and Optimization – Julia Jensen and Maren Wehrle4. How Do We Respond? Embodied Vulnerability and Forms of Responsiveness – Danielle PetherbridgePart II – New Directions in Feminist Theory5. Revisiting Feminist Matters in the Post-Linguistic Turn: John Dewey, New Materialisms, and Contemporary Feminist Thought – Clara Fischer6. Feminist and Transgender Tensions: An Inquiry into History, Methodological Paradigms, and Embodiment – Lanei M. Rodemeyer7. Expressing the World: Merleau-Ponty and Feminist Debates on Nature/Culture – Kathleen LennonPart III – Sex, Violence, and Public Policy8. Are Women’s Lives (Fully) Grievable? Gendered Framing and Sexual Violence – Dianna Taylor9. Sex Trafficking, Reproductive Rights, and Sovereign Borders: A Transnational Struggle Over Women’s Bodies – Diana Tietjens Meyers10. Routine Unrecognized Sexual Violence in India – Namrata MitraPart IV – Pregnancy and Reproductive Technology11. Performing Pregnant: An Aesthetic Investigation of Pregnancy – EL Putnam12. The Metaphors of Commercial Surrogacy: Rethinking the Materiality of Hospitality Through Pregnant Embodiment – Luna Dolezal