{"product_id":"embodiment-and-agency-9780271035222","title":"Embodiment and Agency","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of essays in feminist philosophy. Contributors theorize how we act through differently acculturated bodies in a variety of interpersonal and political contexts. Addresses recent feminist challenges to bring the body more fully and positively into theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bridging the gap that too often exists between theories of agency and embodiment, this exciting collection examines how bodies are agenetic and how human agency in the world is embodied. This volume will be welcomed by feminists and others who are interested in the ethical, political, economic, and global dimensions of human bodily agency.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Shannon Sullivan,Penn State University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The essays contained in this volume offer fascinating philosophical, religious, scientific, historical, and political reflections on what it means to express (and fail to express) agency in and through one’s bodily interactions with other bodies. Above all, \u003ci\u003eEmbodiment and Agency \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the diverse ways in which the experience of agency is always already embodied, thereby countering traditional liberal views that identify agency with conscious activity or a particular set of cognitive capacities.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Gail Weiss,George Washington University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Minding Bodies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLetitia Meynell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Becoming Embodied Subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.\tEmotional Metamorphoses: The Role of Others in Becoming a Subject\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKym Maclaren\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.\tRacial Grief and Melancholic Agency\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAngela Failler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.\tA Knowing That Resided in My Bones: Sensuous Embodiment and Trans Social Movement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexis Shotwell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.\tThe Phrenological Impulse and the Morphology of Character\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca Kukla\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.\tPersonal Identity, Narrative Integration, and Embodiment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatriona Mackenzie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.\tBodily Limits to Autonomy: Emotion, Attitude, and Self-Defense\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSylvia Burrow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Embodied Relations, Political Contexts\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.\tRelational Existence and Termination of Lives: When Embodiment Precludes Agency\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Sherwin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8.\tA Body No Longer of One’s Own\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMonique Lanoix\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9.\tPremature (M)Othering: Levinasian Ethics and the Politics of Fetal Ultrasound Imaging\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacqueline M. Davies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10.\tInside the Frame of the Past: Memory, Diversity, and Solidarity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSue Campbell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11.\tCollective Memory or Knowledge of the Past: “Covering Reality with Flowers”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan E. Babbitt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12.\tAgency and Empowerment: Embodied Realities in a Globalized World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristine Koggel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534929461591,"sku":"9780271035222","price":62.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271035222.jpg?v=1755858113","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/embodiment-and-agency-9780271035222","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}