Women and Their Body: A Cultural and Historical Struggle Against Tradition

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Women and Their Body

A Cultural and Historical Struggle Against Tradition

Edited by: Jil Muller

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Women’s rights over their own bodies is one of the most pressing issues, esp. as women still seem to have fewer rights over their bodies than men. International authors from philosophy, literature, art, architecture, and gender studies address the topic from a variety of perspectives, reaching beyond classical feminism, and beyond the labels of "motherhood" and "sex." The contributions are grouped into five sections – Body Experiences, History, Technology and Arts, Feminism and Phenomenology, and Beauty. Papers address a multitude of areas, ranging from beauty practices and Ukrainian women refugees in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war, feminist phenomenology and socio-structural critique, female specific neuropathology, the discourse of the Victorian women’s menstruation to "motherhood" in gender studies and feminist new materialisms. The book provides not only a comprehensive overview over the current state of research, but will also inspire further discussions. A separate bibliography listing relevant titles for readers new to the topics and for advanced researchers rounds out the volume.

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Jil Muller, Paderborn University, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
1 Introduction Women and Their Body: Breaking the Silence Jil Muller Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Part I The Feminist Perspective
2 The Panoptic Gaze: Female Body and Place Irene Breuer Publicly Available Download PDF	19
3 The Female Body and Freedom: Conflict of Life or Colonial Dilemma in Marko Vovchok’s Narrations? Olga Gomilko Publicly Available Download PDF	41
4 Relative (Non-)Existence of Female-Specific Neuropathology in Current Neuroimaging Research into Hysteria/Functional Neurological Disorders Paula Muhr Publicly Available Download PDF	53
5 Sexual Bodies: On Desire and Pleasure in Feminist and Thoughts Cornelia Möser Publicly Available Download PDF	79
6 Beauty and the Duty to be Beautiful Maria Borges Publicly Available Download PDF	95
7 Beauty Practices and Ukrainian Women Refugees in the Context of Russia-Ukraine War: Another Double Bind Mariya Shcherbyna Publicly Available Download PDF	109
Part II The Feminist Ethics Perspective
8 Distractibility: Wandering Between Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen Carmen Guarino Publicly Available Download PDF	129
9 On Being ‘Indisposed’ to Study and Work, or the Discourse of the Victorian Women’s Menstruation Elżbieta Filipow Publicly Available Download PDF	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 Julia Schneider Publicly Available Download PDF	163
11 Andrea Dworkin. Life, Death, War, and Virginity: A Radical Truth Sandra Markewitz Publicly Available Download PDF	179
12 Reproduction, Structural Injustice, and the Problem of Speaking for Others Susan Stark Publicly Available Download PDF	197
Part III The Phenomenological Perspective
13 Women, Bodies, and Experiences: Feminist Interventions in the Philosophy of the Body Natalia Anna Michna Publicly Available Download PDF	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 Ariadni Polychroniou Publicly Available Download PDF	233
15 Confined Spatiality as Deontological Feeling: Iris Marion Young, the Embodied Sense of Entitlement and Its Varieties Henning Nörenberg Publicly Available Download PDF	251
16 Mothers Matter: Discussing Motherhood in Gender Studies and Feminist New Materialisms Lisa Krall Publicly Available Download PDF	269
Part IV The Alternative Femininities Perspective
17 The Female Body and Leontion: Why Were Epicurean Women Capable of Philosophy? Enrico Piergiacomi Publicly Available Download PDF	287
18 Do Women Think with Their Body? Descartes, Malebranche, Poulain de la Barre Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin Publicly Available Download PDF	303
19 Arca as Demiurge: Cyborg’s Body, Mutant’s Body Sara Simone Spinelli Publicly Available Download PDF	321
20 The Reinvention of the Human Body: Cyborgs, String Figures and New Boundaries Felix Grewe Publicly Available Download PDF	339
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	339
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9783111396934

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9783111396125

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360

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111396934

eBook ISBN: 9783111396934

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111396125

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Women’s rights; embodiment; self-determination; women philosophers

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Scholars in the Humanities and Gender Studies.

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