ISBN:
0203309154
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9780203309155
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0203418654
,
9780203418659
,
9780415082099
,
0415082099
,
9780415082105
,
0415082102
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xvi, 163 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Gatens, Moira Imaginary bodies
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Human body Social aspects
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Sex differences Philosophy
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Feminist theory
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Human body Social aspects
;
Sex differences Philosophy
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Cuerpo humano Aspectos sociales
;
Diferencias sexuales Filosofía
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Feminist theory
;
Human body ; Social aspects
;
Sex differences ; Philosophy
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Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
1. A critique of the sex/gender distinction -- 2. Corporeal representation in/and the body politic -- 3. Woman and her double(s) : sex, gender and ethics -- 4. Towards a feminist philosophy of the body -- 5. Power, bodies and difference -- 6. Contracting sex : essence, genealogy, desire -- 7. Embodiment, ethics and difference -- 8. Spinoza, law and responsibility -- 9. Power, ethics and sexual imaginaries.
Abstract:
Moira Gatens investigates the ways in which differently sexed bodies can occupy the same social or political space. Representations of sexual difference have unacknowledged philosophical roots which cannot be dismissed as a superficial bias on the part of the philosopher, nor removed without destroying the coherence of the philosophical system concerned. The deep structural bias against women extends beyond metaphysics and its effects are felt in epistemology, moral, social and political theory. The idea of sexual difference is contextualised in Imaginary Bodies and traced through
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-158) and index. - Description based on print version record
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