New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment

1. Contested Terrains: New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment
Clara Fischer, Luna Dolezal

Part I. Normative Bodies, Ethics, and Vulnerability

2. A Genealogy of Women’s (Un)Ethical Bodies
Gail Weiss

3. The Normal Body: Female Bodies in Changing Contexts of Normalization and Optimization
Julia Jansen, Maren Wehrle

4. How Do We Respond? Embodied Vulnerability and Forms of Responsiveness
Danielle Petherbridge

Part II. New Directions in Feminist Theory

5. Revisiting Feminist Matters in the Post-Linguistic Turn: John Dewey, New Materialisms, and Contemporary Feminist Thought
Clara Fischer

6. Feminist and Transgender Tensions: An Inquiry into History, Methodological Paradigms, and Embodiment
Lanei M. Rodemeyer

7. Expressing the World: Merleau-Ponty and Feminist Debates on Nature/Culture
Kathleen Lennon

Part III. Sex, Violence, and Public Policy

8. Are Women’s Lives (Fully) Grievable? Gendered Framing and Sexual Violence
Dianna Taylor

9. Sex Trafficking, Reproductive Rights, and Sovereign Borders: A Transnational Struggle over Women’s Bodies
Diana Tietjens Meyers

10. Routine Unrecognized Sexual Violence in India
Namrata Mitra

Part IV. Pregnancy and Reproductive Technology

11. Performing Pregnant: An Aesthetic Investigation of Pregnancy
EL Putnam

12. The Metaphors of Commercial Surrogacy: Rethinking the Materiality of Hospitality Through Pregnant Embodiment
Luna Dolezal

Keywords: Philosophy, Feminism, Gender and Sexuality, Gender Studies, Critical Theory