New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fischer, Clara (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Dolezal, Luna (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Breaking Feminist Waves
• Subjects: Feminist theory.; Gender identity.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Critical theory.; Feminism.; Gender and Sexuality.; Gender Studies.; Critical Theory.

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 ong...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Contested Terrains: New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment - Clara Fischer and Luna Dolezal
• 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
• 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 M. Rodemeyer
• 7. Expressing the World: Merleau-Ponty and Feminist Debates on Nature/Culture - Kathleen Lennon
• 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 Unrecognized Sexual Violence in India - Namrata Mitra.-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.