Rosalyn Diprose

The Bodies of Women

Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Differences

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Produktbeschreibung

In "The Bodies of Women," Rosalyn Diprose argues that traditional approaches to ethics both perpetuate and remain blind to the mechanisms of the subordination of women. She shows that injustice against women begins in the ways that social discourses and practices place women's embodied existence as improper and secondary to men. She intervenes into debates about sexual difference, ethics, philosophies of the body and theories of self in order to develop a new ethics which places sexual difference at the very center of meaning. Diprose analyzes attempts in both feminist and non-feminist ethics to recognize the role of sexual difference. She critiques biomedical discourses whose descriptions mask a constitution and regulation of "the body." Drawing on insights from continental philosophy and feminist theory, "The Bodies" "of Women" includes critical readings of Hegel, Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Foucault as well as productive engagementwith contemporary feminist scholars such as Irigaray, Cornell and Young. What emerges is a unique approach to the ethics of sexual difference which both locates and subverts mechanisms of sexual discrimination.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780415097833
• ISBN-10: 0415097835
• Artikelnr.: 22435312

Autorenporträt

Rosalyn Diprose

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Feminism and the Ethics of Reproduction 2. Ethics,
Embodiment and Sexual Difference 3. Hegel's Restricted Economy of
Difference 4. Sexual Difference Beyond Duality 5. Nietzsche on Sexed
Embodiment 6. Biomedical Ethics and Lived, Sexed Bodies Conclusion