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Embodied Selves

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  1. Stella Gonzalez-Arnal

    1. University of Hull, UK

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  2. Gill Jagger

    1. University of Hull, UK

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  3. Kathleen Lennon

    1. University of Hull, UK

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Kathleen Lennon, Stella Gonzalez Arnal, Gill Jagger
    Pages 1-11

  3. Gender and Reproduction

    • Linda Martín Alcoff
    Pages 12-28

  4. Biology and the Metaphysics of Sex Difference

    • Kathleen Lennon
    Pages 29-45

  5. ‘All Human Beings Are Pregnant, Both in Body and in Soul’: The Bisexual Imaginary in Plato’s Symposium

    • Stella Sandford
    Pages 46-65

  6. Personal Identity and Transsexual Narratives

    • Stella Gonzalez-Arnal
    Pages 66-83

  7. The Embodiment of Cultural Identity

    • Paul Gilbert
    Pages 84-100

  8. This Body Which Is Not Mine: The Notion of the Habit Body, Prostitution and (Dis)embodiment

    • Maddy Coy
    Pages 101-118

  9. Turned into Body by the Other

    • Stephen Burwood
    Pages 119-138

  10. Disability and the Thinking Body

    • Jackie Leach Scully
    Pages 139-159

  11. Hearing Deafness: Subjectness, Articulateness and Communicability

    • Alexa Schriempf
    Pages 160-179

  12. The Voice of Pain: The Semiotic and Embodied Subjectivity

    • Minae Inahara
    Pages 180-195

  13. Hospitality and ‘the Gift of Life’: Reconfiguring the Other in Heart Transplantation

    • Margrit Shildrick
    Pages 196-208

  14. Embodied Subjectivity, Power and Resistance: Bourdieu and Butler on the Problem of Determinism

    • Gill Jagger
    Pages 209-229

  15. Suffering, Silence and Social Weightlessness: Honneth and Bourdieu on Embodiment and Power

    • Lois McNay
    Pages 230-248

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 249-258
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Hull, UK

    Stella Gonzalez-Arnal, Gill Jagger, Kathleen Lennon

About the editors

LINDA MARTÍN ALCOFF Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, USA STEPHEN BURWOOD Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hull, UK MADDY COY Deputy Director of CWASU in London Metropolitan University, UK PAUL GILBERT Emeritus Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hull, UK MINAE INAHARA Lecturer at Rikkyo University, Japan LOIS MCNAY Professor of Theory of Politics, Department of International Relations, at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Somerville College, UK ALEXA SCHRIEMPF ABD in Philosophy and Women's Studies at Penn State University, USA JACKIE LEACH SCULLY Reader in Social and Bioethics at Newcastle University, UK MAGRIT SHILDRICK Reader in Gender Studies at Queens University, Belfast, UK

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