New Feminist Issues of the Body

Abstract

This panel gathers feminist theorists from the United States and Europe to consider new approaches in feminism to “the body.” The papers touch on a wide variety of topics, ranging from how the body is read in democratic and resistance movements such as Black Lives Matter, to the role of the body in multiculturalism, to the significance of the body to political representation, to the ways that disability can contribute to our rethinking of the mind/body duality in feminism, to the implications of bodily issues such as sexuality and reproduction for a political future in dark times. But all share an understanding of the dual significance of the body as simultaneously material, the site of pain, invasion and violation, and representational, signifying a set of practices that constitutes the meaning of gender, race, ethnicity and ability.

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Is Feminism Good for Multiculturalism? Lessons from Iris Marion Young	View Paper Details
How, When and Why We Should #sayhername: #blacklivesmatter and Black Femicide	View Paper Details
'…progress is Lovely, isn’t it?' Life and Death in the 'Brave New World' after '1984'	View Paper Details
The Body of Political Representatives and the Two Mechanisms of Political Representation	View Paper Details
Feminism, Disability, and the Body/Mind Duality: Rethinking the Place of the Will	View Paper Details