Embodied Selves

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Kathleen Lennon, Stella Gonzalez Arnal, Gill Jagger

   Pages 1-11

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3. Gender and Reproduction

   • Linda Martín Alcoff

   Pages 12-28

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4. Biology and the Metaphysics of Sex Difference

   • Kathleen Lennon

   Pages 29-45

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

   • Stella Sandford

   Pages 46-65

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6. Personal Identity and Transsexual Narratives

   • Stella Gonzalez-Arnal

   Pages 66-83

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7. The Embodiment of Cultural Identity

   • Paul Gilbert

   Pages 84-100

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

   • Maddy Coy

   Pages 101-118

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9. Turned into Body by the Other

   • Stephen Burwood

   Pages 119-138

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10. Disability and the Thinking Body

    • Jackie Leach Scully

    Pages 139-159

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11. Hearing Deafness: Subjectness, Articulateness and Communicability

    • Alexa Schriempf

    Pages 160-179

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

    • Minae Inahara

    Pages 180-195

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

    • Margrit Shildrick

    Pages 196-208

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

    • Gill Jagger

    Pages 209-229

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

    • Lois McNay

    Pages 230-248

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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.

• body
• gender
• identity
• Pierre Bourdieu
• Sex

• University of Hull, UK

  Stella Gonzalez-Arnal, Gill Jagger, Kathleen Lennon

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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