Volatile bodies : toward a corporeal feminism

著者

• Grosz, E. A. (Elizabeth A.)

書誌事項

Volatile bodies : toward a corporeal feminism

Elizabeth Grosz

（Theories of representation and difference）

Indiana University Press, c1994

• : alk. paper
• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-245) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

"The location of the author's investigations, the body itself rather than the sphere of subjective representations of self and of function in cultures, is wholly new. . . . I believe this work will be a landmark in future feminist thinking." -Alphonso Lingis "This is a text of rare erudition and intellectual force. It will not only introduce feminists to an enriching set of theoretical perspectives but sets a high critical standard for feminist dialogues on the status of the body." -Judith Butler Volatile Bodies demonstrates that the sexually specific body is socially constructed: biology or nature is not opposed to or in conflict with culture. Human biology is inherently social and has no pure or natural "origin" outside of culture. Being the raw material of social and cultural organization, it is "incomplete" and thus subject to the endless rewriting and social inscription that constitute all sign systems. Examining the theories of Freud, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, etc. on the subject of the body, Elizabeth Grosz concludes that the body they theorize is male. These thinkers are not providing an account of "human" corporeality but of male corporeality. Grosz then turns to corporeal experiences unique to women-menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, menopause. Her examination of female experience lays the groundwork for developing theories of sexed corporeality rather than merely rectifying flawed models of male theorists.

目次

Introduction and Acknowledgments Part I. Introduction 1. Refiguring Bodies Part II. The Inside Out 2. Psychoanalysis and Psychical Topographies 3. Body Images: Neurophysiology and Corporeal Mappings 4. Lived Bodies: Phenomenology and the Flesh Part III. The Outside In 5. Nietzsche and the Choreography of Knowledge 6. The Body as Inscriptive Surface 7. Intensities and Flows Part IV. Sexual Difference 8. Sexed Bodies Notes Bibliography Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA24354227
• ISBN:
  • 9780253208620
  • 0253208629
• LCCN: 93028611
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Bloomington
• ページ数/冊数: xvi, 250 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : HQ1190
  • DC20 : 305.42/01
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Feminist theory
  • LCSH : Body, Human -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Gender identity
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA00524683