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embodiment and sexual difference in contemporary feminist theory
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Braidotti, Rosi
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2011
- Description
- This revised and expanded edition retains all but two of Braidotti’s original essays, including her investigations into epistemology’s relation to the 'woman question', feminism and biomedical ethics: European feminism: and the possible relations between American feminism and European politics and philosophy. A new piece integrates Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the 'becoming-minoritarian' more deeply into modern democratic thought, and a chapter on methodology explains Braidotti’s methods while engaging with her critics.
embodiment and sexual difference in contemporary feminist theory
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Braidotti, Rosi
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2011 - B
- Description
- This revised and expanded edition retains all but two of Braidotti’s original essays, including her investigations into epistemology’s relation to the 'woman question', feminism and biomedical ethics: European feminism: and the possible relations between American feminism and European politics and philosophy. A new piece integrates Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the 'becoming-minoritarian' more deeply into modern democratic thought, and a chapter on methodology explains Braidotti’s methods while engaging with her critics.
rethinking selfhood through continental, Japanese, and feminist philosophies
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- McCarthy, Erin
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- filosofie, theorieën, identiteit, lichamen, ethiek
- Description
- While the body has been largely neglected in much of traditional Western philosophy, there is a rich tradition of Japanese philosophy in which this is not the case.This book explains how Japanese philosophy includes the body as an integral part of selfhood and ethics and shows how it provides an alternative and challenge to the traditional Western philosophical view of self and ethics. Through a comparative feminist approach, the book articulates the similarities that exist between certain strands of Japanese philosophy and feminist philosophy concerning selfhood, ethics and the body.
Darwinian reflections on life, politics, and art
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Grosz, Elizabeth
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2011 - B
- Description
- In this book Grosz addresses the concepts of llife, politics and art by exploring the implications of Darwin’s account of the evolution of species. Challenging characterizations of Darwin’s work as a form of genetic determinism, Grosz shows that his writing reveals an insistence on the difference between natural selection and sexual selection, the principles that regulate survival and attractiveness, respectively. Sexual selection complicates natural selection by introducing aesthetic factors and the expression of individual will, desire, or pleasure. Grosz explores how Darwin’s theory of sexual selection transforms philosophy, our understanding of humanity in its male and female forms, our ideas of political relationsn and our concepts of art. Connecting the naturalist’s work to the writings of Bergson, Deleuze and Irigaray, she outlines a postmodern Darwinism that understands all of life as forms of competing and coordinating modes of openness.
towards a sexuate philosophy
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jones, Rachel
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- FR 8 2011 - B
- Description
- The work of French Philosopher Luce Irigaray has exerted a profound influence on feminist thinking of recent decades and provides a far-reaching challenge to western philosophy's entrenched patriarchal norms. This book guides the reader through Irigaray's critical and creative transformation of western thought. Through detailed analysis of her most important text, Speculum of the Other Woman, Rachel Jones carefully examines Irigaray's transformative readings of such icons of the western tradition as Plato, Descartes, Kant and Hegel. She shows that these readings underpin Irigaray's claim that western philosophy has been dependent on the forgetting of both sexual difference and of our singular beginnings in birth. In response, Irigaray seeks to recover a positive account of sexual difference which would release woman from her traditional position as the 'other' of the subject and allow her to speak as a subject in her own right. In a reading of Irigaray's work, Jones shows why this distinctively feminist project necessarily involves the transformation of the fundamental terms of western metaphysics. By foregrounding Irigaray's approach to questions of otherness and alterity, she concludes that, for Irigaray, cultivating an ethics of sexuate difference is the condition of ethical relations in general.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Khader, Serene J.
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- filosofie, theorieën, empowerment, mensenrechten, geweld, armoede
- Description
- Women and other oppressed and deprived people sometimes collude with the forces that perpetuate injustice against them. Women's acceptance of their lesser claim on household resources like food, their positive attitudes toward clitoridectemy and infibulations, their acquiescence to violence at the hands of their husbands, and their sometimes fatalistic attitudes toward their own poverty or suffering are all examples of 'adaptive preferences,' wherein women participate in their own deprivation. This book offers a definition of adaptive preference and a moral framework for responding to adaptive preferences in development practice. Khader defines adaptive preferences as deficits in the capacity to lead a flourishing human life that are causally related to deprivation and argues that public institutions should conduct deliberative interventions to transform the adaptive preferences of deprived people. Khader claims that adaptive preference identification requires a commitment to moral universalism, but this commitment need not be incompatible with a respect for culturally variant conceptions of the good. She illustrates her arguments with examples from real-world development practice.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Schües, Christina > (ed.)
- Creator
- Olkowski, Dorothea E. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Fielding, Helen A. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Weiss, Gail
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- filosofie, theorieën, vrouwenlichamen, seksuele differentie, identiteit, bundel
- Description
- The contributors to this volume take up questions about a phenomenology of time that begins with and attunes to gender issues. Themes such as feminist conceptions of time, change and becoming, the body and identity, memory and modes of experience, and the relevance of time as a moral and political question, shape this book and explore connections between feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and time. With its insistence on the importance of gender experience to the experience of time, this volume is a welcome opening to new and critical thinking about being, knowledge, aesthetics, and ethics.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kirby, Vicki
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- theorieën, filosofie, natuur cultuur debat, lichamen, taal
- Description
- In this bookVicki Kirby contends that some of the most provocative aspects of deconstruction have yet to be explored. Deconstruction’s implications have been curtailed by the assumption that issues of textuality and representation are specific to the domain of culture. Revisiting Derrida’s claim that there is “no outside of text,” Kirby argues that theories of cultural construction developed since the linguistic turn have inadvertently reproduced the very binaries they intended to question, such as those between nature and culture, matter and ideation, and fact and value. Through new readings of Derrida, Husserl, Saussure, Butler, Irigaray, and Merleau-Ponty, Kirby exposes the limitations of theories that regard culture as a second-order system that cannot access—much less be—nature, body, and materiality. She suggests ways of reconceiving language and culture to enable a more materially implicated outcome, one that keeps alive the more counterintuitive and challenging aspects of poststructural criticism. By demonstrating how fields, including cybernetics, biology, forensics, mathematics, and physics, can be conceptualized in deconstructive terms, Kirby fundamentally rethinks deconstruction and its relevance to nature, embodiment, materialism, and science.
interpreting key thinkers for the arts
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Barrett, Estelle
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- FR 54 2011 - A
- Description
- With examples from the paintings of Van Gogh and Picasso, the work of contemporary feminist painters, the photography of Bill Henson and the film and animation work of Van Sowerine, the author describes how Kristeva can illuminate the relationships between artist and art object, between artists, artworks and audiences, and between art and knowledge. Through these relationships the author explores what Kristeva's work reveals about the role and function of art in society and offers a passage through Kristeva's ideas and her relevance to visual culture.
norm, bisexuality, development
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Mader, Mary Beth
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- seksualiteit, biseksualiteit, theorieën, filosofie, normen
- Description
- This book examines how concepts lend themselves to power/knowledge formations. Many contemporary French philosophers make incidental use of the notion of a ruse. Its names are legion: 'duplicity,' 'concealment,' 'forgetting,' and 'subterfuge,' among others. Mader employs Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of the concept to describe three specifically conceptual ruses, or sleights, that make up part of the conceptual support for the concept of sex. These are the sleights associated with the concepts of norm, bisexuality, and development. Mader argues that concepts can trick us, and shows how they can effect conceptual sleights, or what she calls sleights of reason. She concludes by offering a robust synthesis of insights from Foucault and Deleuze to extend those into a proposal for a conceptual next step for imagining the structures of sexuality as eros.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Keltner, S.K.
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- FR 8 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- filosofie, theorieën, psychoanalyse, semiotiek, taalgebruik, macht, identiteit
- Description
- Keltner offers an introduction to the breadth of Kristeva's work. She presents Kristeva's thought as the coherent development and elaboration of a multidimensional threshold constitutive of meaning and subjectivity. The ‘threshold' indicates Kristeva's primary sphere of concern, the relationship between the speaking being and its particular social and historical conditions: and Kristeva's interdisciplinary approach.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Abbey, Ruth
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- theorieën, liberalisme, feminisme, globalisering, filosofie, zorgethiek
- Description
- In this book Ruth Abbey examines the positions of three contemporary feminists - Martha Nussbaum, Susan Moller Okin, and Jean Hampton - who, notwithstanding decades of feminist critique, are unwilling to give up on liberalism. Abbey examines why, and in what ways, each of these theorists believes that liberalism offers the normative and political resources for the improvement of women's lives. Going beyond their shared allegiance to liberalism, Abbey explains and evaluates their theoretical differences, and in so doing, goes to the heart of recent debates in feminist and political theory.
embodiment and sexual difference in contemporary feminist theory
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Braidotti, Rosi
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Description
- This revised and expanded edition retains all but two of Braidotti’s original essays, including her investigations into epistemology’s relation to the 'woman question', feminism and biomedical ethics: European feminism: and the possible relations between American feminism and European politics and philosophy. A new piece integrates Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the 'becoming-minoritarian' more deeply into modern democratic thought, and a chapter on methodology explains Braidotti’s methods while engaging with her critics.