Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter V
2. Table of Contents V
3. List of Abbreviations IX
4. 1 Introduction Women and Their Body: Breaking the Silence 1
5. Part I The Feminist Perspective
6. 2 The Panoptic Gaze: Female Body and Place 19
7. 3 The Female Body and Freedom: Conflict of Life or Colonial Dilemma in Marko Vovchok’s Narrations? 41
8. 4 Relative (Non-)Existence of Female-Specific Neuropathology in Current Neuroimaging Research into Hysteria/Functional Neurological Disorders 53
9. 5 Sexual Bodies: On Desire and Pleasure in Feminist and Thoughts 79
10. 6 Beauty and the Duty to be Beautiful 95
11. 7 Beauty Practices and Ukrainian Women Refugees in the Context of Russia-Ukraine War: Another Double Bind 109
12. Part II The Feminist Ethics Perspective
13. 8 Distractibility: Wandering Between Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen 129
14. 9 On Being ‘Indisposed’ to Study and Work, or the Discourse of the Victorian Women’s Menstruation 147
15. 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
16. 11 Andrea Dworkin. Life, Death, War, and Virginity: A Radical Truth 179
17. 12 Reproduction, Structural Injustice, and the Problem of Speaking for Others 197
18. Part III The Phenomenological Perspective
19. 13 Women, Bodies, and Experiences: Feminist Interventions in the Philosophy of the Body 213
20. 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
21. 15 Confined Spatiality as Deontological Feeling: Iris Marion Young, the Embodied Sense of Entitlement and Its Varieties 251
22. 16 Mothers Matter: Discussing Motherhood in Gender Studies and Feminist New Materialisms 269
23. Part IV The Alternative Femininities Perspective
24. 17 The Female Body and Leontion: Why Were Epicurean Women Capable of Philosophy? 287
25. 18 Do Women Think with Their Body? Descartes, Malebranche, Poulain de la Barre 303
26. 19 Arca as Demiurge: Cyborg’s Body, Mutant’s Body 321
27. 20 The Reinvention of the Human Body: Cyborgs, String Figures and New Boundaries 339
28. List of Contributors 339
29. List of names
30. List of subjects