Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and FeminismIndiana University Press, 2001 M03 22 - 224 páginas Explores the dynamic relationship between bodies and the world around them. What if we lived across and through our skins as much as we do within them? According to Shannon Sullivan, the notion of bodies in transaction with their social, political, cultural, and physical surroundings is not new. Early in the 20th century, John Dewey elaborated human existence as a set of patterns of behavior or actions shaped by the environment. Underscoring the continued relevance of his thought, Sullivan brings Dewey into conversation with Continental philosophers -- Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty -- and feminist philosophers -- Butler and Harding -- to expand thinking about the body. Emphasizing topics such as the role of habit, the discursivity of bodies, communication and meaning, personal and cultural structures of gender, the improvement of bodily experience, and understandings of truth and objectivity, Living Across and Through Skins acknowledges the importance of the body's experience without placing it in opposition to psychological, cultural, and social aspects of human life. By focusing on what bodies do, rather than what they are, Sullivan prompts a closer look at concrete, physical transactions that might be changed to improve human experiences of the world. |
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... situations and surroundings that also make up the world. While a more detailed presentation of what transaction means will have to wait until later, I want to set out here the advantages of thinking of bodies as transactional. First ...
... situations in which they are engaged. Turning to the effects of bodies' transactions in this way encourages the exploration of whether these effects are bene¤cial or harmful, whom they bene¤t and harm, and ultimately whether they should ...
... situations with or within which they take place. The idea of bodies being constituted in and through their transactions with their environments implicitly raises the question of the existence of non- or prediscursive bodies; that is ...
... situation jointly constitute its meaning. How bodies create meaning has implications for the constitution of gender, and Dewey's notion of habit is crucial to understanding gendered ex- istence, including the possibility of its recon ...
... situations that effect bodies and, reciprocally, that the best way to attempt to change the world is to transform a body's transactions with it. Bodies and their habits should not be treated as substantially sealed off from the physical ...
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The Lived Experience of Transactional Bodies | 41 |
Transaction and MerleauPontys Phenomenology of Corporeal Existence | 65 |
Habit Bodies and Cultural Change | 88 |
Nietzsche Women and the Transformation of Bodily Experience | 111 |
Toward a PragmatistFeminist Standpoint Theory | 133 |
Transaction and the Dynamic Distinctiveness of Races | 157 |
notes | 171 |
bibliography | 193 |
index | 201 |
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Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and Feminism Shannon Sullivan Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and Feminism Shannon Sullivan Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and Feminism Shannon Sullivan Sin vista previa disponible - 2001 |