Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. Introduction: Minding Bodies 1
5. PART I: BECOMING EMBODIED SUBJECTS
6. 1 Emotional Metamorphoses: The Role of in Becoming a Subject 25
7. 2 Racial Grief and Melancholic Agency 46
8. 3 A Knowing That Resided in My Bones: Sensuous Embodiment and Trans Social Movement 58
9. 4 The Phrenological Impulse and the Morphology of Character 76
10. 5 Personal Identity, Narrative Integration, and Embodiment 100
11. 6 Bodily Limits to Autonomy: Emotion, Attitude, and Self-Defense 126
12. PART II: EMBODIED RELATIONS, POLITICAL CONTEXTS
13. 7 Relational Existence and Termination of Lives: When Embodiment Precludes Agency 145
14. 8 A Body No Longer of One’s Own 164
15. 9 Premature (M)Othering: Levinasian Ethics and the Politics of Fetal Ultrasound Imaging 184
16. 10 Inside the Frame of the Past: Memory, Diversity, and Solidarity 211
17. 11 Collective Memory or Knowledge of the Past: “Covering Reality with Flowers” 234
18. 12 Agency and Empowerment: Embodied Realities in a Globalized World 250
19. List of Contributors 269
20. Index 273