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Toward a politics of the (im)possible : the body in third world feminisms / Anirban Das.
Author
Dāśa, Anirbāṇa
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2010.
Description
1 online resource (xxii, 210 pages).
Availability
Available Online
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Subject(s)
Human body
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Developing countries
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Feminism
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Developing countries
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Series
Anthem studies in development and globalization
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Summary note
This book presents a philosophical discussion on the issues of the body and knowledge from a feminist perspective.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Contents
Introduction; 1. Body, Power and Ideology [Introduction; Question of Power
the Hierarchical Constitution of Subjects; Ideology and Spectral Embodiment]; 2. Thinking the Body: Metaphoricity of the Corporeal [Introduction; The Body, Thingness and Ideologies; Actuality and (Im)Possibility: Descartes/Foucault/Derrida; 'The Woman in the Body'
Metaphors of Embodiment; Beyond Performativity: Universals and Other Generalities]; 3. Thinking the Body
Negotiating the Other/Death [Introduction; Medicine: Making up the Normal; The Body in Death: Beyond the Post/Modern; Dying and the Dasein: Towards an Ontology of Death; From Ontology to Ethics: Embodying Death]; 4. Thinking the Body
Beyond the Topos of Man [Introduction; The Woman in Ontological Difference; Property Talks: the (Non)Space of the Name; Figuring Sexual Difference: Multiple Singularities; Yashobati's Story
Maya in a Trace-Structure]; 5. Violence and Responsibility: Embodied Feminisms [Introduction; Third World Feminisms: The Politics of Location and Experience; Eating Others
an Inquiry into the Notions of Iterability and Responsibility]; In Conclusion: Toward a Politics of the (Im)Possible.
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ISBN
9781843313427 ((electronic bk.))
1843313421 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
741614145
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