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: 9780742514140
• ISBN10: 0742514145
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-13
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

InBelief, Bodies, and Being, thirteen distinguished contributors present diverse and illuminating viewpoints on feminist issues of embodiement, materialism, and agency from feminist and postmodernist philosophical perspectives.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
1 Thinking through the Body: An Introduction to Beliefs, Bodies, and Being	1	(10)
Deborah Orr
2 Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter	11	(26)
Karen Barad
3 Monstrous Reflections on the Mirror of the Self-Same	37	(12)
Margrit Shildrick
4 Ontology and Feminism	49	(10)
Käthe Trettin
5 Diotima, Wittgenstein, and a Language for Liberation	59	(22)
Deborah Orr
6 Re-situating the Feminine in Contemporary French Philosophy	81	(22)
Louise Burchill
7 Being and Time, Non-Being and Space...(Introductory notes toward an ontological study of "Woman" and chora)	103	(24)
Jana Evans Braziel
8 "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
9 In Search of the Body in the Cave: Luce Irigaray's Ethics of Embodiment	141	(10)
Tonja van den Ende
10 Reconsidering the Notion of the Body in Anti-essentialism, with the Help of Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler	151	(12)
Annemie Halsema
11 Butler's Sophisticated Constructionism: A Critical Assessment	163	(22)
Veronica Vasterling
12 A Critique of Feminist Radical Constructionism	185	(12)
Saskia Wendel
13 Applying Time to Feminist Philosophy of the Body	197	(12)
Lanei M. Rodemeyer
Contributors	209	(4)
Index	213