10 Female Reproductive Bodies and the Shift from Risk to Threat Society: The (Mis)Use of the Powers of Pregnancy in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Amy Ewing’s The Lone City-Series
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Julia Schneider
Julia Schneider is a PhD student and a research assistant for Prof. Tönnies at the University of Paderborn. Her doctoral research centres on female liminal bodies in dystopian young adult fiction. She completed her master’s degree in English and American Studies at the University of Paderborn in 2018. Among her key research areas are contemporary young adult fiction and 19th-century Gothic fiction. She is the author of the articles “Birth without a Woman: Mary Shelley’sFrankenstein in the Context of Eighteenth-Century Ideas on Birth, Motherhood and Midwifery”, which was published in the series ‘anglistik & englischunterricht’ (Winter Verlag) in 2020 and “Performing Utopia? The Contestation of Dystopian Space in Cecelia Ahern’sFlawed -Series”, which was published in the series Contemporary Drama in English Studies, (De Gruyter) in 2022.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter V
- Table of Contents V
- List of Abbreviations IX
- 1 Introduction Women and Their Body: Breaking the Silence 1
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Part I The Feminist Perspective
- 2 The Panoptic Gaze: Female Body and Place 19
- 3 The Female Body and Freedom: Conflict of Life or Colonial Dilemma in Marko Vovchok’s Narrations? 41
- 4 Relative (Non-)Existence of Female-Specific Neuropathology in Current Neuroimaging Research into Hysteria/Functional Neurological Disorders 53
- 5 Sexual Bodies: On Desire and Pleasure in Feminist and Thoughts 79
- 6 Beauty and the Duty to be Beautiful 95
- 7 Beauty Practices and Ukrainian Women Refugees in the Context of Russia-Ukraine War: Another Double Bind 109
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Part II The Feminist Ethics Perspective
- 8 Distractibility: Wandering Between Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen 129
- 9 On Being ‘Indisposed’ to Study and Work, or the Discourse of the Victorian Women’s Menstruation 147
- 10 Female Reproductive Bodies and the Shift from Risk to Threat Society: The (Mis)Use of the Powers of Pregnancy in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Amy Ewing’s The Lone City-Series 163
- 11 Andrea Dworkin. Life, Death, War, and Virginity: A Radical Truth 179
- 12 Reproduction, Structural Injustice, and the Problem of Speaking for Others 197
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Part III The Phenomenological Perspective
- 13 Women, Bodies, and Experiences: Feminist Interventions in the Philosophy of the Body 213
- 14 Between Feminist Phenomenology and Socio-Structural Critique: The Hybrid Construction of Female Embodiment in the Early Theoretical Framework of Iris Marion Young as a Locus of Radical Interdisciplinarity 233
- 15 Confined Spatiality as Deontological Feeling: Iris Marion Young, the Embodied Sense of Entitlement and Its Varieties 251
- 16 Mothers Matter: Discussing Motherhood in Gender Studies and Feminist New Materialisms 269
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Part IV The Alternative Femininities Perspective
- 17 The Female Body and Leontion: Why Were Epicurean Women Capable of Philosophy? 287
- 18 Do Women Think with Their Body? Descartes, Malebranche, Poulain de la Barre 303
- 19 Arca as Demiurge: Cyborg’s Body, Mutant’s Body 321
- 20 The Reinvention of the Human Body: Cyborgs, String Figures and New Boundaries 339
- List of Contributors 339
- List of names
- List of subjects
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter V
- Table of Contents V
- List of Abbreviations IX
- 1 Introduction Women and Their Body: Breaking the Silence 1
-
Part I The Feminist Perspective
- 2 The Panoptic Gaze: Female Body and Place 19
- 3 The Female Body and Freedom: Conflict of Life or Colonial Dilemma in Marko Vovchok’s Narrations? 41
- 4 Relative (Non-)Existence of Female-Specific Neuropathology in Current Neuroimaging Research into Hysteria/Functional Neurological Disorders 53
- 5 Sexual Bodies: On Desire and Pleasure in Feminist and Thoughts 79
- 6 Beauty and the Duty to be Beautiful 95
- 7 Beauty Practices and Ukrainian Women Refugees in the Context of Russia-Ukraine War: Another Double Bind 109
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Part II The Feminist Ethics Perspective
- 8 Distractibility: Wandering Between Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen 129
- 9 On Being ‘Indisposed’ to Study and Work, or the Discourse of the Victorian Women’s Menstruation 147
- 10 Female Reproductive Bodies and the Shift from Risk to Threat Society: The (Mis)Use of the Powers of Pregnancy in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Amy Ewing’s The Lone City-Series 163
- 11 Andrea Dworkin. Life, Death, War, and Virginity: A Radical Truth 179
- 12 Reproduction, Structural Injustice, and the Problem of Speaking for Others 197
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Part III The Phenomenological Perspective
- 13 Women, Bodies, and Experiences: Feminist Interventions in the Philosophy of the Body 213
- 14 Between Feminist Phenomenology and Socio-Structural Critique: The Hybrid Construction of Female Embodiment in the Early Theoretical Framework of Iris Marion Young as a Locus of Radical Interdisciplinarity 233
- 15 Confined Spatiality as Deontological Feeling: Iris Marion Young, the Embodied Sense of Entitlement and Its Varieties 251
- 16 Mothers Matter: Discussing Motherhood in Gender Studies and Feminist New Materialisms 269
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Part IV The Alternative Femininities Perspective
- 17 The Female Body and Leontion: Why Were Epicurean Women Capable of Philosophy? 287
- 18 Do Women Think with Their Body? Descartes, Malebranche, Poulain de la Barre 303
- 19 Arca as Demiurge: Cyborg’s Body, Mutant’s Body 321
- 20 The Reinvention of the Human Body: Cyborgs, String Figures and New Boundaries 339
- List of Contributors 339
- List of names
- List of subjects