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Author:   S. Gonzalez-Arnal ,  G. Jagger ,  K. Lennon
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9780230299740

ISBN 10:   0230299741
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   15 December 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction Gender and Reproduction; L.Alcoff Biology and the Metaphysics of Sex Difference; K.Lennon 'All human beings are pregnant, both in body and in soul': The Bisexual Imaginary in Plato's Symposium ; S.Sandford Personal Identity and Transsexual Narratives; S.Gonzalez-Arnal The Embodiment of Cultural Identity; P.Gilbert This Body Which is not Mine: The Nnotion of the Habit Body, Prostitution and (Dis)embodiment; M.Coy Turned into Body by the Other; S.Burwood Disability and the Thinking Body; J.Leach Scully Hearing deafness: Subjectness, Articulateness and Communicability; A.Schriempf The Voice of Pain: The Semiotic and Embodied Subjectivity; M.Inahara Hospitality and 'the Gift of Life': Reconfiguring the Other in Heart Transplantation; M.Shildrick Embodied Subjectivity, Power and Resistance: Bourdieu and Butler on the Problem of Determinism; G.Jagger Suffering, Silence and Social Weightlessness: Honneth and Bourdieu on Embodiment and Power; L.McNay

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LINDA MARTÍN ALCOFF Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, USA STEPHEN BURWOOD Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hull, UK MADDY COY Deputy Director of CWASU in London Metropolitan University, UK PAUL GILBERT Emeritus Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hull, UK MINAE INAHARA Lecturer at Rikkyo University, Japan LOIS MCNAY Professor of Theory of Politics, Department of International Relations, at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Somerville College, UK ALEXA SCHRIEMPF ABD in Philosophy and Women's Studies at Penn State University, USA JACKIE LEACH SCULLY Reader in Social and Bioethics at Newcastle University, UK MAGRIT SHILDRICK Reader in Gender Studies at Queens University, Belfast, UK

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