Toward a politics of the (im)possible the body in third world feminisms /: the body in third world feminisms. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Anirban Das.
• Other Names: Dāśa, Anirbāṇa
• 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
• Publisher Details: London New York : Anthem Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxii, 210 pages)
• Subjects: 306.4; Human body -- Developing countries; Feminism -- Developing countries; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Feminism; Human body; Feminismus; Körper; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; Developing countries; Entwicklungsländer; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781843313427; 1843313421
• Related ISBNs: 9781843318552; 1843318555
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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