Belief, bodies, and being: feminist reflections on embodiment

Thinking through the body : an introduction to beliefs, bodies, and being / Deborah Orr -- Posthumanist performativity : toward an understanding of how matter comes to matter / Karen Barad -- Monstrous reflections on the mirror of the self-same / Margrit Shildrick -- Ontology and feminism / Käthe Tr...

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Corporate Author: International Association of Women Philosophers (Other)
Contributors: Orr, Deborah 1946- (Other)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Lanham, Md Rowman & Littlefield Publishers c2006
In:Year: 2006
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Body / Feminism
B Feminism / Philosophy / Body
B Feminist philosophy / Bodiliness
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Ontology Congresses
B Body, Human Congresses
B Feminist Theory
B Human Body
B Conference program 1998 (Boston, Mass)
B Feminist Theory Congresses
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Summary:Thinking through the body : an introduction to beliefs, bodies, and being / Deborah Orr -- Posthumanist performativity : toward an understanding of how matter comes to matter / Karen Barad -- Monstrous reflections on the mirror of the self-same / Margrit Shildrick -- Ontology and feminism / Käthe Trettin -- Diotima, Wittgenstein, and a language for liberation / Deborah Orr -- Re-situating the feminine in contemporary French philosophy / Louise Burchill -- Being and time, non-being and space-- (introductory notes toward an ontological study of 'woman' and chora) / Jana Evans Braziel -- "To take a chance with meaning under the veil of words" : transpositions, mothers, and learning in Julia Kristeva's theory of language / Bettina Schmitz -- In search of the body in the cave : Luce Irigaray's ethics of embodiment / Tonja van den Ende -- Reconsidering the notion of the body in anti-essentialism, with the help of Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler / Annemie Halsema -- Butler's sophisticated constructionism : a critical assessment / Veronica Vasterling -- A critique of feminist radical constructionism / Saskia Wendel -- Applying time to feminist philosophy of the body / Lanei M. Rodemeyer
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index. - "Papers ... originally presented by IAPh members at the Eighth IAPh Symposium held in conjunction with the World Congress of Philosophy in Boston, MA in 1998"--p. [vii]
ISBN:0742514145