| Description |
xvi, 163 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"Imaginary Bodies is a collection of essays that offer a sustained challenge to traditional philosophical notions of the body, sex and gender. Moira Gatens explores alternative positions to dualism by exploring psychoanalytic, Foucaultian and Spinozist notions of embodiment. The book traces a largely neglected geneaology of philosophers from Spinoza, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault and Deleuze and sets this tradition against that of the Enlightenment. What emerges are new ways of thinking those aspects of life which Gatens calls "imaginary." Confining herself to neither philosophy of "the subject" nor an ahistorical philosophy of "the body" at the expense of broader ethical and socio-political issues, Gatens shows the many connections between theories of bodies politic and the (sexed) individual. She compellingly, lucidly, and trenchantly engages with the ethical, legal and sexual relations between men and women which are placed in its proper historical and political context." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0648/95006521-d.html |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-158) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Feminist theory.
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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Sex differences -- Philosophy.
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| LC no. |
95006521 |
| ISBN |
0415082099 |
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0415082102 (paperback) |
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