Overview
- Cuts new terrain in feminist theories of the body and embodiment
- Targets the topic of bodily boundaries in new innovative ways through a focus on the dynamic co-constitution of bodies and boundaries
- Explores an understanding of vulnerability as an essential aspect of being embodied
Part of the book series: Crossroads of Knowledge (CROKNOW)
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Keywords
- Collective bodies
- Critique of neoliberalism
- Embodiment
- Feminism
- Feminist theory
- Gender studies
- Human vulnerability
- Identity formation
- National and cultural identities
- Philosophy of the body
- Political and cultural activity
- Sociology of the body
- Somatechnologies
- Subjectivity
- critique of neoliberal society
- relationality
- sexuality
Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bodies, Boundaries and Vulnerabilities
Book Subtitle: Interrogating Social, Cultural and Political Aspects of Embodiment
Editors: Lisa Folkmarson Käll
Series Title: Crossroads of Knowledge
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22494-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-22493-0Published: 10 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37338-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-22494-7Published: 30 October 2015
Series ISSN: 2197-9634
Series E-ISSN: 2197-9642
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 174
Topics: Gender Studies, Gender Studies