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Feminist Perspectives on the Body

Feminist Perspectives on the Body

Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781799840909|ISBN10: 1799840905|EISBN13: 9781799840916
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4090-9.ch010
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Maxwell Constantine Chando Musingafi, et al. "Feminist Perspectives on the Body." Philosophising Experiences and Vision of the Female Body, Mind, and Soul: Historical Context and Contemporary Theory, IGI Global, 2021, pp.144-161. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4090-9.ch010

APA

M. Musingafi, R. Mafumbate, & T. Khumalo (2021). Feminist Perspectives on the Body. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4090-9.ch010

Chicago

Maxwell Constantine Chando Musingafi, Racheal Mafumbate, and Thandi Fredah Khumalo. "Feminist Perspectives on the Body." In Philosophising Experiences and Vision of the Female Body, Mind, and Soul: Historical Context and Contemporary Theory. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4090-9.ch010

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Abstract

This chapter discusses feminist theories of embodiment. The theories provide a general account of the relations between bodies and selves. The philosophy of embodiment extends outside the social and political sphere to engage with debates in philosophy of mind/body, where attention to embodiment has extended beyond a simple reductionist picture of the relation between mind and brain, to consider an embodied self, embedded within an environment. The formation of embodied subjectivity as constitutive of the self, to which feminists have paid such careful attention, and the persisting interrogation of the appropriate way of understanding biological and social embodiment, has links with these debates. Feminist theorists discussed in this chapter argue that naturalising frameworks need supplementing with phenomenological, poststructuralist, and psychoanalytic ones for a complete understanding of the embodiment of the female human body.

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