Belief, bodies, and being : feminist reflections on embodiment / edited by Deborah Orr [and others]. - viii, 220 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thinking through the body : an introduction to Beliefs, bodies, and being / Posthumanist performativity : toward an understanding of how matter comes to matter / Monstrous reflections on the mirror of the self-same / Ontology and feminism / Diotima, Wittgenstein, and a language for liberation / Re-situating the feminine in contemporary French philosophy / Being and time, non-being and space ... (introductory notes toward an ontological study of "Woman" and chora) / "To take a chance with meaning under the veil of words" : transpositions, mothers, and learning in Julia Kristeva's theory of language / In search of the body in the cave : Luce Irigaray's ethics of embodiment / Reconsidering the notion of the body in anti-essentialism, with the help of Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler / Butler's sophisticated constructionism : a critical assessment / A critique of feminist radical constructionism / Applying time to feminist philosophy of the body / Deborah Orr -- Karen Barad -- Margrit Shildrick -- Kathe Trettin -- Deborah Orr -- Louise Burchill -- Jana Evans Braziel -- Bettina Schmitz -- Tonja van den Ende -- Annemie Halsema -- Veronica Vasterling -- Saskia Wendel -- Lanei M. Rodemeyer. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

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Feminist theory
Human body.

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