Embodied Selves

This interdisciplinary collection explores the role the body plays in constituting our sense of self, signalling the interplay between material embodiment, social meaning, and material and social conditions.

List of contents

Introduction Gender and Reproduction; L.Alcoff Biology and the Metaphysics of Sex Difference; K.Lennon 'All human beings are pregnant, both in body and in soul': The Bisexual Imaginary in Plato's Symposium ; S.Sandford Personal Identity and Transsexual Narratives; S.Gonzalez-Arnal The Embodiment of Cultural Identity; P.Gilbert This Body Which is not Mine: The Nnotion of the Habit Body, Prostitution and (Dis)embodiment; M.Coy Turned into Body by the Other; S.Burwood Disability and the Thinking Body; J.Leach Scully Hearing deafness: Subjectness, Articulateness and Communicability; A.Schriempf The Voice of Pain: The Semiotic and Embodied Subjectivity; M.Inahara Hospitality and 'the Gift of Life': Reconfiguring the Other in Heart Transplantation; M.Shildrick Embodied Subjectivity, Power and Resistance: Bourdieu and Butler on the Problem of Determinism; G.Jagger Suffering, Silence and Social Weightlessness: Honneth and Bourdieu on Embodiment and Power; L.McNay

About the author

LINDA MARTÍN ALCOFF Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, USA
STEPHEN BURWOOD Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hull, UK
MADDY COY Deputy Director of CWASU in London Metropolitan University, UK
PAUL GILBERT Emeritus Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hull, UK
MINAE INAHARA Lecturer at Rikkyo University, Japan
LOIS MCNAY Professor of Theory of Politics, Department of International Relations, at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Somerville College, UK
ALEXA SCHRIEMPF ABD in Philosophy and Women's Studies at Penn State University, USA
JACKIE LEACH SCULLY Reader in Social and Bioethics at Newcastle University, UK
MAGRIT SHILDRICK Reader in Gender Studies at Queens University, Belfast, UK

Summary

This interdisciplinary collection explores the role the body plays in constituting our sense of self, signalling the interplay between material embodiment, social meaning, and material and social conditions.

Product details

• Authors: Gill Lennon Jagger
• Assisted by: S. Gonzalez-Arnal (Editor), Jagger (Editor), G Jagger (Editor), G. Jagger (Editor), K Lennon (Editor), K. Lennon (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349335343
• ISBN: 978-1-349-33534-3
• No. of pages: 269
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Feminism, Philosophy of Mind, Anthropology, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Self, Sociology, general, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminist Theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Philosophy of the Self, Sociology of the Body, Human body—Social aspects, Self and Identity, Identity (Psychology), body;gender;identity;Pierre Bourdieu;Sex