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OverviewMore than sixty years ago, Simone de Beauvoir identified the importance of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's writings to feminist theory. His exploration of the relationship between the body and the space it inhabits is key to modern phenomenological thinking. But there has been little agreement on how Merleau-Ponty's ideas ultimately have an impact on feminist philosophy. Does his emphasis on physical subjectivity lend a certain agency to all bodies, regardless of sex? Or do Merleau-Ponty's specific descriptions of physical experience betray an intrinsic bias toward a male heterosexual point of view? The essays presented here by Olkowski and Weiss attempt to situate Merleau-Ponty in the larger context of feminist theory, while impartially evaluating his contributions, both positive and negative, to that theory.In addition to the editors, the contributors are Jorella Andrews, David Brubaker, Judith Butler, Laura Doyle, Helen Fielding, Vicki Kirby, Sonia Kruks, Ann Murphy, Johanna Oksala, and Beata Stawarska. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dorothea Olkowski , Gail WeissPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Edition: Annotated edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780271029184ISBN 10: 0271029188 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 15 January 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD  We will order this item for you from a manufatured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsContents Preface Nancy Tuana Introduction: The Situated Subject Dorothea Olkowski 1. Merleau-Ponty and the Problem of Difference in Feminism Sonia Kruks 2. Only Nature Is Mother to the Child Dorothea Olkowski 3. White Logic and the Constancy of Color Helen Fielding 4. The Concept of Flesh Beata Stawarska 5. Sexual Difference as a Question of Ethics: Alterities of the Flesh in Irigaray and Merleau-Ponty Judith Butler 6. Culpability and the Double Cross: Irigaray with Merleau-Ponty Vicky Kirby 7. Urban Flesh Gail Weiss 8. Vision, Violence, and the Other: A Merleau-Pontean Ethics Jorella Andrews 9. Bodies Inside/Out: Violation and Resistance from the Prison Cell to The Bluest Eye Laura Doyle 10. Female Freedom: Can the Lived Body Be Emancipated? Johanna Oksala 11. Care for the Flesh: Gilligan, Merleau-Ponty, and Corporeal Styles David Brubaker 12. Language in the Flesh: The Disturbance of Discourse in Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and Irigaray Ann Murphy Bibliography Contributors IndexReviewsThis is both a necessary book and a very good one. That this volume is not the perfect feminist source on Merleau-Ponty is not a negative judgment, given that it is currently the best to be found. --Nancy J. Holland, Dialogue Through many original and a few reprinted pieces, this collection demonstrates that there still remains much to explore and develop with and against Merleau-Ponty's corpus. Feminist Interpretations of Merleau-Ponty definitely provides much to think about and demonstrates, as Weiss writes, 'new ways of doing philosophy.' --Emily S. Lee, APA Newsletter This is both a necessary book and a very good one. That this volume is not the perfect feminist source on Merleau-Ponty is not a negative judgment, given that it is currently the best to be found. --Nancy J. Holland, Dialogue Through many original and a few reprinted pieces, this collection demonstrates that there still remains much to explore and develop with and against Merleau-Ponty's corpus. Feminist Interpretations of Merleau-Ponty definitely provides much to think about and demonstrates, as Weiss writes, 'new ways of doing philosophy.' --Emily S. Lee, APA Newsletter This work is an important addition for specialists, but not geared to undergraduates. --A. B. Curry, Choice Exhibiting well the scope and diversity of feminist readings of Merleau-Ponty, the volume is an important contribution that will be of interest to theorists in many fields, while at the same time encouraging further specialized work in the area--something that may well benefit feminist philosophy, but will certainly enrich Merleau-Ponty studies. --Bryan Smyth, Philosophy in Review <p> This work is an important addition for specialists, but not geared to undergraduates. <p>--A. B. Curry, Choice Through many original and a few reprinted pieces, this collection demonstrates that there still remains much to explore and develop with and against Merleau-Ponty's corpus. Feminist Interpretations of Merleau-Ponty definitely provides much to think about and demonstrates, as Weiss writes, 'new ways of doing philosophy.' --Emily S. Lee, APA Newsletter This is both a necessary book and a very good one. That this volume is not the perfect feminist source on Merleau-Ponty is not a negative judgment, given that it is currently the best to be found. --Nancy J. Holland, Dialogue Exhibiting well the scope and diversity of feminist readings of Merleau-Ponty, the volume is an important contribution that will be of interest to theorists in many fields, while at the same time encouraging further specialized work in the area--something that may well benefit feminist philosophy, but will certainly enrich Merleau-Ponty studies. --Bryan Smyth, Philosophy in Review This work is an important addition for specialists, but not geared to undergraduates. --A. B. Curry, Choice Author InformationDorothea Olkowski is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Gail Weiss is Director of the Human Sciences Program and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The George Washington University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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