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The bodies of women
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ISBN: 1280143940 113486020X 0203981065 9780203981061 9780415097826 0415097827 9780415097833 0415097835 0415097827 0415097835 9781134860159 9781134860197 9781134860203 1134860196 9781280143946 Year: 1994 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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What sort of ethics do we need? Rosalyn Diprose argues that the usual approaches to ethics both perpetuate and remain blind to the mechanisms of the subordination of women. In Bodies of Women: Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Differences, she claims that injustice against women is found in the social discourses and practices which both evaluate and constitute their modes of embodiment as improper in relation to men. Diprose critically analyses the attempts in both feminist and non-feminist ethics to recognise the role of sexual difference and the biomedical discourses whose descriptions mask a constitution and regulation of the 'body'. Her critiques draw on insights from Anglophone feminist theory and continental philosophy, and are supported by critical readings of Irigaray, Cornell and Fraser, Hegel, Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Foucault. What emerges is a new ethics of sexual difference which not only better locates the mechanisms of discrimination but also provides the means to subvert them.

Nomadic subjects : embodiment and sexual difference in contemporary feminist theory
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ISBN: 0231082355 Year: 1994 Volume: *3 Publisher: New York Columbia University Press

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Bundel met essays waarin de plaatsbepaling van de feministische theorievorling en meer bepaald het seksuele differntie denken ten aanzien van de gangbare Westerse filosofie en epistemologie centraal staat. Het geheel vormt een pleidooi voor de integratie van feministisch gedachtengoed in de gevestigde wetenschappelijke discours. In hoofdstuk elf 'Women's Studies and the Politics of Difference', wordt nagegaan of de praktijk van geïnstitutionaliseerde vrouwenstudies de relevantie van seksuele differentie op onderzoeksniveau bewijst.

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