Embodied Selves

S. Gonzalez-Arnal,G. Jagger,K. Lennon

• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Año: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781137283696
• Categoría: Social Sciences
• Categoría: Sociology

This interdisciplinary collection explores the role the body plays in constituting our sense of self, signalling the interplay between material embodiment, social meaning, and material and social conditions.

Índice

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Gender and Reproduction
• 2 Biology and the Metaphysics of Sex Difference
• 3 ‘All Human Beings Are Pregnant, Both in Body and in Soul’: The Bisexual Imaginary in Plato’s Symposium
• 4 Personal Identity and Transsexual Narratives
• 5 The Embodiment of Cultural Identity
• 6 This Body Which Is Not Mine: The Notion of the Habit Body, Prostitution and (Dis)embodiment
• 7 Turned into Body by the Other
• 8 Disability and the Thinking Body
• 9 Hearing Deafness: Subjectness, Articulateness and Communicability
• 10 The Voice of Pain: The Semiotic and Embodied Subjectivity
• 11 Hospitality and ‘the Gift of Life’: Reconfiguring the Other in Heart Transplantation
• 12 Embodied Subjectivity, Power and Resistance: Bourdieu and Butler on the Problem of Determinism
• 13 Suffering, Silence and Social Weightlessness: Honneth and Bourdieu on Embodiment and Power
• Index