ISBN:
9781137295613
,
1137295619
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 280 S.
Edition:
1. publ.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Online-Ressource Palgrave connect. Social sciences
Series Statement:
Thinking gender in transnational times
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Gender, agency, and coercion
DDC:
346.029
Keywords:
Agent (Philosophy)
;
Duress (Law)
;
Women
;
Legal status, laws, etc
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Frau
;
Handlungskompetenz
;
Entscheidungsverhalten
;
Zwang
;
Feminismus
Abstract:
Introduction-- S.Madhok, A.Phillips & K.Wilson Choosers or Losers? Feminist Ethical and Political Agency in a Plural and Unequal World-- K.Hutchings The Feminist Subject of Agency: Recognition and Affect in Encounters with 'the Other'-- C.Hemmings & A.Kabesh The Meaning of Agency-- M.Evans The Unbearable Lightness of Theory: Political Ontology and Social Weightlessness in Mouffe's Radical Democracy-- L.McNay Agency as 'Smart Economics': Neoliberalism, Gender and Development-- K.Wilson Action, Agency, Coercion: Reformatting Agency for Oppressive Contexts-- S.Madhok Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in UN Peacekeeping Missions: Problematising Current Responses-- M.Henry Does the Body Make a Difference?-- A.Phillips Rejecting the Choice Paradigm: Rethinking the Ethical Framework in Prostitution and Egg Sale Debates-- H.Widdows Compensating Egg Donors-- E.Jackson Reproblematising Relations of Agency and Coercion: Surrogacy-- S.Ashenden Representing Agency and Coercion: Feminist Readings and Postfeminist Media Fictions-- S.Wearing As if Postfeminism had come True: the Turn to Agency in Cultural Studies of 'Sexualisation'-- R.Gill & N.Donaghue Afterword-- S.Madhok, A.Phillips & K.Wilson
Abstract:
Drawing on recent feminist discussions, this collection critically reassesses ideas about agency, exploring the relationship between agency and coercion in greater depth and across a range of disciplinary perspectives and ethical contexts, This collection aims to think critically about agency and explore the relationship between agency and coercion in greater depth. In academic, activist, and policy circles alike, feminist work has re-focused attention onto women as agents rather than as passive victims of overwhelming structures of male institutional power, or less capable of exercising agency by virtue of their class, race, gender or culture. These broadly positive moves are not without risks. Most notably, they can encourage a triumphalist disregard for constraints through an exclusive emphasis on 'discovering' agency even in the least favourable situations, thereby obscuring domination, inequality, and subordination. So how does bringing agency and coercion into closer interplay impact our understanding of the two? How might the stories of feminist agency change if we locate agency and coercion on the same intellectual frame? What would it mean to disrupt the existing constellation of ideas accompanying agency so as to include coercion, subordination and oppression alongside ideas of freedom, autonomy, and independence? How do we theoretically negotiate agency and coercion in conditions of deep inequality? This collection thinks through these questions in a range of regional, intellectual, ethical and political contexts
Abstract:
Electronic book text. - Epublication based on: 9780230300323, 2013
DOI:
10.1057/9781137295613
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