On Female Body Experience by Iris Marion Young
Questions of embodiment have become central to feminist theory, challenging the prevailing notion of disembodied reason in epistemology and criticizing modern political theory for separating human facts of death, birth, need, sex. This work includes a collection of articles on the female body experience among others.-
The Minority Body
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Minimizing Marriage
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Gender in the Mirror
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Disorientation and Moral Life
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Theories of the Flesh
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Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity
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Visible Identities
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Moral Understandings
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The Metaphysics of Gender
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Elemental Difference and the Climate of the Body
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Decolonizing Freedom
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Differences
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Beyond Speech
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Burdened Virtues
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The Physiology of Sexist and Racist Oppression
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Vulnerability
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The Wrong of Injustice
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Identities and Freedom
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Philosophy of Science after Feminism
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Autonomy, Oppression, and Gender
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The Epistemology of Resistance
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Decolonizing Universalism
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Women's Activism, Feminism, and Social Justice
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Sovereign Masculinity
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Out from the Shadows
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Shifting Ground
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Our Faithfulness to the Past
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You've Changed
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Women and Citizenship
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Abortion and Social Responsibility
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Women's Liberation and the Sublime
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Equal Citizenship and Public Reason
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Hope Under Oppression
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Intimate Borders
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Failed Relations
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Stereotypes and Scripts
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The Dynamics of Epistemic Injustice
Not only does it group together essays representative of Young's on-going thinking about female embodiment and her engagement with phenomenological and feminist philosophers over the span of her career- thus of interest to scholars- this collection also provides a thematically cohesive work that can be read as an introduction to questions of lived bodily experience from a feminist perspective, hence representing a valuable resource for teaching* Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
Iris Marion Young is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where she is affiliated with the Center for Graduate Studies. Her works in feminist theory, theory of justice, and democratic theory have been published in major journals in the U.S. and translated into seven languages. Her previous books include Justice and the Politics of Difference (Princeton 1990), Intersecting Voices: Dilemmas of Gender, Political Philosophy and Policy (Princeton, 1997), and Inclusion and Democracy (Oxford, 2000).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195161939 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195161939 |
| Title | On Female Body Experience |
| Author | Iris Marion Young |
| Series | Studies In Feminist Philosophy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2005-02-17 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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