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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Madhok, Sumi[Herausgeber]
• Phillips, Anne[Herausgeber]
• Wilson, Kalpana[Herausgeber]

Titel

Gender, Agency, and Coercion [electronic resource]

Ort / Verlag

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes index.
• Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Choosers or Losers? Feminist Ethical and Political Agency in a Plural and Unequal World; 3 The Feminist Subject of Agency: Recognition and Affect in Encounters with 'the Other'; 4 The Meaning of Agency; 5 The Unbearable Lightness of Theory: Political Ontology and Social Weightlessness in Mouffe's Radical Democracy; 6 Agency as 'Smart Economics': Neoliberalism, Gender and Development; 7 Action, Agency, Coercion: Reformatting Agency for Oppressive Contexts
• 8 Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in UN Peacekeeping Missions: Problematising Current Responses9 Does the Body Make a Difference?; 10 Rejecting the Choice Paradigm: Rethinking the Ethical Framework in Prostitution and Egg Sale Debates; 11 Compensating Egg Donors; 12 Reproblematising Relations of Agency and Coercion: Surrogacy; 13 Representing Agency and Coercion: Feminist Readings and Postfeminist Media Fictions; 14 As if Postfeminism Had Come True: The Turn to Agency in Cultural Studies of 'Sexualisation'; 15 Afterword; Index
• Drawing on recent feminist discussions, this collection critically reassesses ideas about agency, exploring the relationship between agency and coercion in greater depth and across a range of disciplinary perspectives and ethical contexts.
• English