Belief, Bodies, and Being Feminist Reflections on Embodiment

by Orr, Deborah; McAlister, Linda López; Kahl, Eileen; Earle, Kathleen; Barad, Karen; Shildrick, Margrit; Trettin, Kathe; Burchill, Louise; Schmitz, Bettina; den Endej, Tonja van; Halsema, Annemie; Vasterling, Veronica; Wendel, Saskia; Rodemeyer, Lanei

• ISBN13: 9780742514157
• ISBN10: 0742514153
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-06
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In Belief, Bodies, and Being, thirteen distinguished contributors present diverse and illuminating viewpoints on the issues of embodiment, materialism, and agency from feminist and postmodernist philosophical perspectives. Beginning by positing non-traditional ways of approaching ontological concerns (through the acknowledgment of agential realities and the usage of an ontology of tropes), the volume concludes by addressing highly specific, culturally constituted types of postmodern bodies, including monstrous, anorexic, and pharmaceutical bodies. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Thinking through the Body: An Introduction to Beliefs, Bodies, and Being	1	(10)
Deborah Orr
Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter	11	(26)
Karen Barad
Monstrous Reflections on the Mirror of the Self-Same	37	(12)
Margrit Shildrick
Ontology and Feminism	49	(10)
Kathe Trettin
Diotima, Wittgenstein, and a Language for Liberation	59	(22)
Deborah Orr
Re-situating the Feminine in Contemporary French Philosophy	81	(22)
Louise Burchill
Being and Time, Non-Being and Space... (Introductory notes toward an ontological study of ``Woman'' and chora)	103	(24)
Jana Evans Braziel
``To Take a Chance with Meaning under the Veil of Words'': Transpositions, Mothers, and Learning in Julia Kristeva's Theory of Language	127	(14)
Bettina Schmitz
In Seach of the Body of the Cave: Luce Irigrary's Ethics of Embodiment	141	(10)
Tonja van den Ende
Reconsidering the Notion of the Body in Anti-essentialism, with the Help of Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler	151	(12)
Annemie Halsema
Butler's Sophisticated Constructionism: A Critical Assessment	163	(22)
Veronica Vasterling
A Critique of Feminist Radical Constructionism	185	(12)
Saskia Wendel
Applying Time to Feminist Philosophy of the Body	197	(12)
Lanei M. Rodemeyer
Contributors	209	(4)
Index	213