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Gender, Agency, and Coercion

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Sumi Madhok

    1. London School of Economics, UK

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  2. Anne Phillips

    1. London School of Economics, UK

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  3. Kalpana Wilson

    1. London School of Economics, UK

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Part of the book series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times (THINKGEN)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Sumi Madhok, Anne Phillips, Kalpana Wilson
    Pages 1-13

  3. Choosers or Losers? Feminist Ethical and Political Agency in a Plural and Unequal World

    • Kimberly Hutchings
    Pages 14-28

  4. The Feminist Subject of Agency: Recognition and Affect in Encounters with ‘the Other’

    • Clare Hemmings, Amal Treacher Kabesh
    Pages 29-46

  5. The Meaning of Agency

    • Mary Evans
    Pages 47-63

  6. The Unbearable Lightness of Theory: Political Ontology and Social Weightlessness in Mouffe’s Radical Democracy

    • Lois McNay
    Pages 64-83

  7. Agency as ‘Smart Economics’: Neoliberalism, Gender and Development

    • Kalpana Wilson
    Pages 84-101

  8. Action, Agency, Coercion: Reformatting Agency for Oppressive Contexts

    • Sumi Madhok
    Pages 102-121

  9. Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in UN Peacekeeping Missions: Problematising Current Responses

    • Marsha Henry
    Pages 122-142

  10. Does the Body Make a Difference?

    • Anne Phillips
    Pages 143-156

  11. Rejecting the Choice Paradigm: Rethinking the Ethical Framework in Prostitution and Egg Sale Debates

    • Heather Widdows
    Pages 157-180

  12. Compensating Egg Donors

    • Emily Jackson
    Pages 181-194

  13. Reproblematising Relations of Agency and Coercion: Surrogacy

    • Samantha Ashenden
    Pages 195-218

  14. Representing Agency and Coercion: Feminist Readings and Postfeminist Media Fictions

    • Sadie Wearing
    Pages 219-239

  15. As if Postfeminism Had Come True: The Turn to Agency in Cultural Studies of ‘Sexualisation’

    • Rosalind Gill, Ngaire Donaghue
    Pages 240-258

  16. Afterword

    • Sumi Madhok, Anne Phillips, Kalpana Wilson
    Pages 259-261

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 262-280
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About this book

Drawing on recent feminist discussions, this collection critically reassesses ideas about agency, exploring the relationship between agency and coercion in greater depth and across a range of disciplinary perspectives and ethical contexts.

Editors and Affiliations

  • London School of Economics, UK

    Sumi Madhok, Anne Phillips, Kalpana Wilson

About the editors

SAMANTHA ASHENDEN Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK NGAIRE DONAGHUE Associate Professor of Social Psychology in the School of Psychology at Murdoch University, Western Australia, Australia MARY EVANS Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, UK ROSALIND GILL Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at King's College London, UK CLARE HEMMINGS Professor of Gender Studies and Gender Theory at the London School of Economics, UK MARSHA HENRY Lecturer in Gender, Development and Globalisation at the London School of Economics, UK KIMBERLY HUTCHINGS Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, UK EMILY JACKSON Professor of Law at the London School of Economics, UK AMAL TREACHER KABESH Associate Professor in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, UK LOIS MCNAY Professor of Political Theory at Oxford University, UK SADIE WEARING Lecturer in Gender, Media and Culture at the London School of Economics, UK HEATHER WIDDOWS Professor of Global Ethics in the Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, UK

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