Rethinking Feminist Phenomenology - Theoretical and Applied Perspectives

Ideal for advanced students across Philosophy, Women's Studies, Anthropology, Sociology and more, this book focuses on emerging trends in feminist phenomenology. It covers foundational feminist issues in phenomenology, feminist phenomenological methods, and applied phenomenological work on the body, politics, ethics, and performance theory.

List of contents

1. Introduction: The Water We Swim In: Why Feminist Phenomenology Today?
Sara Cohen Shabot and Christinia Landry

PART I: FOUDATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

2. Subject and Structure in Feminist Phenomenology: Re-reading Beauvoir with Butler
Beata Stawarska

3. Gender Essentialism and Eidetic Inquiry
Gayle Salamon

4. Intersectional Ambiguity and the Phenomenology of #BlackGirlJoy
Qrescent Mali Mason

5. Doing Time in a For-Profit Space: Re-negotiating Identity in the Prison-Industrial Complex
Gail Weiss

PART II: ETHICAL AND POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES
6. Towards a Feminist Phenomenological Ethics
Christinia Landry

7. Phenomenology and Politics: Injustice and Prejudices
Christina Schües

8. Hannah Arendt, Gender, and Political Judgment: A Phenomenological Critique
Sonia Kruks

9. Fat Temporality, Crisis Phenomenology, and the Politics of Refusal
Kristin Rodier

PART III: EMBODIED PERSPECTIVES

10. Edible Mothers, Edible Others: Breastfeeding as Ambiguity
Sara Cohen Shabot

11. On the Existential Damage of School Shootings
Anna Cook

12. Overturning Feminist Phenomenologies: Disability, Complex Embodiment, Intersectionality, and Film
Jenny Chamarette

13. Feminist Visions: Theater and Women Spectators
Lior Levy

Index

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Edited by Sara Cohen Shabot and Christinia Landry

Summary

Ideal for advanced students across Philosophy, Women's Studies, Anthropology, Sociology and more, this book focuses on emerging trends in feminist phenomenology. It covers foundational feminist issues in phenomenology, feminist phenomenological methods, and applied phenomenological work on the body, politics, ethics, and performance theory.

Product details

• Authors: Sara Cohen Landry Shabot
• Assisted by: Christinia Landry (Editor), Sara Cohen Shabot (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781786603739
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-373-9
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Gender studies, gender groups, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism