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This book examines the many forces that contribute to the ongoing construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of body images. Drawing on relevant discussions of embodiment in phenomenology, feminist theory, psychoanalytic theory, queer theory and post-colonial theory, "Body Images explores the role played by the body image in our everydat existence.

If social, political, and material transformation is to have a lasting impact on individuals and society, it must be integrated within ordinary experience. This work examines the ways in which individuals' bodies, habits, environments, and abilities function as horizons that underpin their understandings of the ordinary.

Presents fresh readings of classic phenomenological topics and introduces newer concepts developed by feminist theorists, critical race theorists, disability theorists, and queer and trans theorists that capture aspects of lived experience that have traditionally been neglected.

This volume is an introduction to both newer and more established ideas in the growing field of critical phenomenology from a number of disciplinary perspectives.

Perspectives on Embodiment" offers multiple ways of conceptualizing human corporeality. These essays collectively defy arbitrary distinctions between nature and culture and reveal the complex ways in which nature and culture interact to produce embodied subjects. A central premise of this collection is that a variety of perspectives is needed to illuminate the fluid, ever-changing features of human corporeality. This book not only explores w...

Perspectives on Embodiment" offers multiple ways of conceptualizing human corporeality. These essays collectively defy arbitrary distinctions between nature and culture and reveal the complex ways in which nature and culture interact to produce embodied subjects. A central premise of this collection is that a variety of perspectives is needed to illuminate the fluid, ever-changing features of human corporeality. This book not only explores wha...

If social, political, and material transformation is to have a lasting impact on individuals and society, it must be integrated within ordinary experience. Refiguring the Ordinary examines the ways in which individuals' bodies, habits, environments, and abilities function as horizons that underpin their understandings of the ordinary. These features of experience, according to Gail Weiss, are never neutral, but are always affected by gender, r...

Connects Merleau-Ponty's thought to themes and issues central to continental philosophy today.

Connects Merleau-Ponty's thought to themes and issues central to continental philosophy today.