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Book SynopsisAlthough feminist phenomenology is traditionally rooted in philosophy, the issues with which it engages sit at the margins of philosophy and a number of other disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. This interdisciplinarity is emphasised in the present collection. Rethinking Feminist Phenomenology focuses on emerging trends in feminist phenomenology from a range of both established and new scholars. It covers foundational feminist issues in phenomenology, feminist phenomenological methods, and applied phenomenological work in politics, ethics, and on the body. The book is divided into three parts, starting with new methodological approaches to feminist phenomenology and moving on to address popular discourses in feminist phenomenology that explore ethical and political, embodied, and performative perspectives.
Trade ReviewIn rethinking the ‘normal’ these essays show how feminist phenomenology is not just still relevant, but is more critical than ever for understanding gendered relations. Addressing contemporary issues such as the #MeToo Movement, the existential damage of school shootings, and experiences of intersectionality, as well as key theoretical questions, the authors define the field. -- Helen Fielding, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, Western University Ontario
Shabot and Landry’s collection moves our conception of feminist phenomenology forward in important ways. It takes us from the second sex to becoming-woman, from essentializing to possibilizing, intersubjectivity to intersectionality, the situated woman to the distressed body, oppression to generosity, injustice to moral impartiality, the autonomy of mental faculties to empathetic intimations, murderous flesh to care of and for the body, bounded to carnal intercorporeality, existential damage to feminist self-defense, singular to complex embodiment, and from anonymous individuals to collective spectatorship. These transitions mark the end of the normalized phenomenological subject and the arrival of a new phenomenology founded on gendered and multi-faceted cognition, mobility, sensation, and affective life. -- Dorothea E. Olkowski, Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado
This collection not only confirms that feminist phenomenology is still relevant, but does more. The volume puts feminism and phenomenology to work in creative ways, confronting the reader with important unresolved issues uncovered by feminism and offering potential ways to address them by way of phenomenology. The sum is a crucial reflection for our challenging times. -- Christine Daigle, Professor of Philosophy, Brock University
Table of Contents1. 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 About the Contributors
