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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"Much of the history of western ethical thought has been composed of debates about the bases of "the good life." It has typically been taken for granted that "the good life" is achievable only by (certain) human beings. Feminists and Continental philosophers have long challenged both the descriptive accuracy and the prescriptive hold of the idea of the human life whose goodness is under discussion. Beyond the normative demands implicit in the idea of the good life, or the properly human life, more and more philosophers are now interrogating the question of life from within a broader frame. Feminist Philosophies of Life signals the importance of distinctively feminist reflections upon matters of shared concern among living beings. For many of the contributors to this volume, it is not enough to expose the tendency of discourses to normalize and exclude differently-abled, racialized, feminized, and gender nonconforming people, although this task remains central. It is also necessary to ask what life is or how life is constituted. What are the conditions under which life on earth is possible? To what extent do we share the struggles and needs of other living beings? And what is it about living bodies that enables them to develop in so-called "social" or "spiritual" ways? How, as feminist philosophers, do we respond to the precarious existences of people experiencing disability, prisoners, fetuses and pregnant women, murdered and missing indigenous women, and of life itself on a planet that is rapidly being impacted by climate change?"-- Provided by publisher. |
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1 Matter, life, and their entwinement: thought as action -- 2 Thinking with matter, rethinking Irigaray: a “liquid ground” for a planetary feminism -- 3 Ethical life after humanism: toward an alliance between an ethics of Eros and the politics of renaturalization -- 4 Foucault’s fossils: life itself and the return to nature in feminist philosophy -- 5 Does life have a sex? Thinking ontology and sexual difference with Irigaray and Simondon -- 6 New constellations: lived diffractions of dis/ability and dance -- 7 Philosophy comes to life: elaborating an idea of feminist philosophy -- 8 Surviving time: Kierkegaard, Beauvoir, and existential life -- 9 Beauvoir and the meaning of life: literature and philosophy as human engagement in the world -- 10 Defining morally considerable life: toward a feminist disability ethics -- 11 Life behind bars: the eugenic structure of mass incarceration -- 12 Fetal life, abortion, and harm reduction -- 13 Beyond bare life: narrations of singularity of Manitoba’s missing and murdered indigenous women -- 14 Endangered life: feminist posthumanism in the anthropocene? |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Feminist theory.
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Feminist theory. |
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Life.
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Life. |
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Electronic books.
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Feminist theory. |
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Taylor, Chloë, 1976- editor.
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Sharp, Hasana, editor.
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Print version: Feminist philosophies of life. (CaOONL)20169022625 |
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9780773599260 (electronic book) |
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0773599266 (electronic book) |
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9780773599277 |
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0773599274 |
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