On Female Body Experience "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays

ISBN-10: 0195161939

ISBN-13: 9780195161939

Edition: 2004

Authors: Iris Marion Young

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Written over a span of more than two decades, the essays by Iris Marion Young collected in this volume describe diverse aspects of women's lived body experience in modern Western societies. Drawing on the ideas of several twentieth century continental philosophers--including Simone de Beauvoir, Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty--Young constructs rigorous analytic categories for interpreting embodied subjectivity. The essays combinetheoretical description of experience with normative evaluation of the unjust constraints on their freedom and opportunity that continue to burden many women. The lead essay rethinks the purpose of the category of "gender"…

Book details

List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/27/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 9.13" wide x 6.42" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English




Lived body vs. gender : reflections on social structure and subjectivity



Throwing like a girl : a phenomenology of feminine body comportment, motility, and spatiality



Pregnant embodiment : subjectivity and alienation



Women recovering our clothes



Breasted experience : the look and the feeling



Menstrual meditations



House and home : feminist variations on a theme



A room of one's own : old age, extended care, and privacy