Existential Eroticism - A Feminist Approach to Understanding Women s Oppression Perpetuating

This book focuses on feminist analyses of women's oppression-perpetuating choices in order to ascertain how such biases in theorizing can undermine liberation.

List of contents

Chapter One: Setting the "Stage"
Chapter Two: Existential Eroticism and Autonomy
Chapter Three: Forms of Restriction and Systemic Patriarchy
Chapter Four: Duress and Necessity under Existential Eroticism
Chapter Five: Trauma as Desperation
Chapter Six: Desperate Rationality
Chapter Seven: Self-Perpetuated Oppression: Individuated Acts, Complicity, and Moral Responsibility
Chapter Eight: Blaming and Forgiving Each Other

About the author

Shay Welch is assistant professor of philosophy at Spelman College.

Summary

This book focuses on feminist analyses of women’s oppression-perpetuating choices in order to ascertain how such biases in theorizing can undermine liberation.

Product details

• Authors: Shay Welch, Welch Shay
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781498505437
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0543-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Ethics & moral philosophy, Feminism & feminist theory, Ethics and moral philosophy, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution