Imaginary bodies : ethics, power, and corporeality /
Moira Gatens investigates the ways in which differently sexed bodies can occupy the same social or political space. Representations of sexual difference have unacknowledged philosophical roots which cannot be dismissed as a superficial bias on the part of the philosopher, nor removed without destroy...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1996.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780203418659 0203418654 9781134891627 1134891628 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- 1. A critique of the sex/gender distinction
- 2. Corporeal representation in/and the body politic
- 3. Woman and her double(s) : sex, gender and ethics
- 4. Towards a feminist philosophy of the body
- 5. Power, bodies and difference
- 6. Contracting sex : essence, genealogy, desire
- 7. Embodiment, ethics and difference
- 8. Spinoza, law and responsibility
- 9. Power, ethics and sexual imaginaries.