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    Time in Feminist Phenomenology (edited book)
    Indiana University Press. 2011.
    The contributors to this international volume take up questions about a phenomenology of time that begins with and attunes to gender issues. Themes such as feminist conceptions of time, change and becoming, the body and identity, memory and modes of experience, and the relevance of time as a moral and political question, shape Time in Feminist Phenomenology and allow readers to explore connections between feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and time. With its insistence on the importance of gend…Read more
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    "Disillusioned with life as a literary publicist in London, as well as with her hotshot, unevolved TV presenter boyfriend, Rosie Richardson chucks the glitz and escapes to run a refugee camp in the African desert. When famine strikes and a massive refugee influx threatens to overwhelm the camp... Richardson returns to London to organize a star-studded and risky emergency appeal."--Front jacket.
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    What are the ethical, political and cultural consequences of forgetting how to trust our senses? How can artworks help us see, sense, think, and interact in ways that are outside of the systems of convention and order that frame so much of our lives? In Cultivating Perception through Artworks, Helen Fielding challenges us to think alongside and according to artworks, cultivating a perception of what is really there and being expressed by them. Drawing from and expanding on the work of philosophe…Read more
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    Maurice Merleau-Ponty
    In Felicity Colman (ed.), Film, Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers, Acumen Publishing. pp. 81-90. 2009.
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    Présentation
    Chiasmi International 7 11-12. 2005.
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    Presentazione
    Chiasmi International 7 15-16. 2005.
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    Présentation
    Chiasmi International 7 11-12. 2005.
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    Future Directions in Feminist Phenomenology (edited book)
    Indiana University Press. 2017.
    Distinguished feminist philosophers consider the future of feminist phenomenology and chart its political and ethical future in this forward-looking volume. Engaging with themes such as the historical trajectory of feminist phenomenology, ways of perceiving and making sense of the contemporary world, and the feminist body in health and ethics, these essays affirm the base of the discipline as well as open new theoretical spaces for work that bridges bioethics, social identity, physical ability, …Read more
  • Feminist Phenomenology Futures (edited book)
    with Dorothea Olkowski
    Indiana University Press. 2017.
  • This dissertation employs a phenomenological perspective to explore recent attempts in poststructuralist feminist theory to return to the body. Importantly, these current approaches try to theorize the body in a way that avoids biological and essentialist accounts; what this means, however, is that they think the body in terms of representation and signification, and not embodiment. This is not surprising given that in this modern epoch, which is characterized by a propersity to rationalize all …Read more
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    White Logic and the Constancy of Color
    In Dorothea Olkowski & Gail Weiss (eds.), Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 71-89. 2006.
    This chapter considers the ways in which whiteness as a skin color and ideology becomes a dominant level that sets the background against which all things, people and relations appear. Drawing on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, it takes up a series of films by Bruce Nauman and Marlon Riggs to consider ways in which this level is phenomenally challenged providing insights into the embodiment of racialization.
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    Dwelling and Public Art: Serra and Bourgeois
    In Patricia M. Locke & Rachel McCann (eds.), Merleau-Ponty: Space, Place, Architecture, Ohio University Press. pp. 258-281. 2015.
    How do permanent artworks installed in public places shape the relations that take place around them? Drawing upon the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Luce Irigaray I claim that two public artworks, Richard Serra’s Tilted Spheres (2002-2004) and a bronze casting of Louise Bourgeois’ Maman (1999) work to open up embodied being and to creatively transform reality. Serra’s work reveals an important aspect of public space, that of the space/time of the anonymous body, as well as the ways in which…Read more
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    Open Future, Regaining Possibility
    In Helen A. Fielding & Dorothea Olkowski (eds.), Feminist Phenomenology Futures, Indiana University Press. pp. 91-109. 2017.
    Helen Fielding considers how the repetition of the same can be phenomenally shifted. Considering the phenomenon of death by suicide in response to cyberbullying, she asks how cyberspace as a system can be opened up and become more responsive to the living affect of young women subjected to abuse. At the heart of this problem is the breakdown of personal time into objective time, whereby the inexhaustible potentiality of the living world is collapsed into the indifferent infinity of the possible …Read more
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    A Feminist Phenomenology Manifesto
    In Helen A. Fielding & Dorothea Olkowski (eds.), Feminist Phenomenology Futures, Indiana University Press. 2017.
    In this volume we situate the future directions of feminist phenomenology in the here and now. We contend that in this moment feminist phenomenology is well positioned to take a leading role, not simply in terms of consolidating existing feminist methodologies but also in engaging the difficult task of thinking through the actual in the fullness of its relational, agential, ontological, experiential, and fleshly being, thereby opening up future possibilities. We also think there is some urgency …Read more
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    Feminist Phenomenology Futures (edited book)
    Indiana University Press. 2017.
    Distinguished feminist philosophers consider the future of their field and chart its political and ethical course in this forward-looking volume. Engaging with themes such as the historical trajectory of feminist phenomenology, ways of perceiving and making sense of the contemporary world, and the feminist body in health and ethics, these essays affirm the base of the discipline as well as open new theoretical spaces for work that bridges bioethics, social identity, physical ability, and the ver…Read more
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    Merleau-Ponty's Last Vision: A Proposal for the Completion of 'The Visible and the Invisible' (review)
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 40 (1): 134-135. 2002.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 40.1 (2002) 134-135 [Access article in PDF] Book Review Merleau-Ponty's Last Vision: A Proposal for the Completion of 'The Visible and the Invisible Douglas Low. Merleau-Ponty's Last Vision: A Proposal for the Completion of 'The Visible and the Invisible.' Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2000. Pp. xv + 124. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $19.95. Low sets himself an impossible task, that of com…Read more
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    Questioning nature: Irigaray, Heidegger and the potentiality of matter
    Continental Philosophy Review 36 (1): 1-26. 2003.
    Irigaray's insistence on sexual difference as the primary difference arises out of a phenomenological perception of nature. Drawing on Heidegger's insights into physis, she begins with his critique of the nature/culture binary. Both philosophers maintain that nature is not matter to be ordered by technical know-how; yet Irigaray reveals that although Heidegger distinguishes physis from techn in his work, his forgetting of the potentiality of matter, the maternal-feminine, and the two-fold essenc…Read more
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    Dwelling with language : Irigaray responds
    In David Pettigrew & François Raffoul (eds.), French Interpretations of Heidegger: An Exceptional Reception, State University of New York Press. 2008.
    This chapter is a study on Luce Irigaray’s engagement with Martin Heidegger’s approach to language. Although language is central to both thinkers, rather than privileging language in terms of the poëtic event of being, the arising of something out of itself, Irigaray reveals how language is privileged in terms of its promise of dialogue between two who are different. This difference provides for a limit to what can be known or recognized, as well as for a creative potentiality that is directed t…Read more
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    Filming Dance: Embodied Syntax in Sasha Waltz' S
    Paragraph 38 (1): 69-85. 2015.
    This paper brings Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological approach to Sasha Waltz’s dance film S, which focuses on the relation between sexuality and language. Maintaining that movement in cinema takes place in the viewers and not the film, the paper considers how the visual can be deepened to include the ways we move and are moved. Saussure’s insights into language are brought to the sensible, which is here understood in terms of divergences from norms. Though film would seem to privilege vision, view…Read more
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    The other: feminist reflections in ethics (edited book)
    with Hiltmann Gabrielle, Olkowski Dorothea, and Reichold Anne
    Palgrave-Macmillan. 2007.
    The western philosophical tradition, with its focus on universal concepts and a presumed neuter, but ultimately male subject, has only relatively recently become open to the question of alterity, in particular the alterity of woman as the other of man. The essays of this volume reflect in particular on the ethical implications of taking the feminine other into account. This necessitates a rethinking of the implicit structures of Western philosophy which continue to exclude women as subjects who …Read more
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    This paper explores the ethical insights provided by Anne Truitt's minimalist sculptures, as viewed through the phenomenological lenses of Hannah Arendt's investigations into the co-constitution of reality and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's investigations into perception. Artworks in their material presence can lay out new ways of relating and perceiving. Truitt's works accomplish this task by revealing the interactive motion of our embodied relations and how material objects can actually help to groun…Read more
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    Body measures: Phenomenological considerations of corporeal ethics
    Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 23 (5). 1998.
    The development of bioethics primarily at the cognitive level further perpetuates the tendency to construe all aspects of our lives, including our bodies, as technical systems. For example, if we consider the moral issue of organ sales without taking our embodiment into account, there appear to be no sound arguments for opposing such sales. However, it is important to consider the aspects of the phenomenal body that challenge rational deliberation by exploring an embodied approach to the ethical…Read more
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    The finitude of nature: Rethinking the ethics of biotechnology
    Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 4 (3): 327-334. 2001.
    In order to open new possibilities for bioethics, I argue that we need to rethink our concept of nature. The established cognitive framework determines in advance how new technologies will become visible. Indeed, in this dualistic approach of metaphysics, nature is posited as limitless, as material endowed with force which causes us to lose the sense of nature as arising out of itself, of having limits, an end. In contrast, drawing upon the example of the gender assignment and construction of in…Read more
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    Riassunto: Una fenomenologia dell' “altro mondo”
    Chiasmi International 9 236-236. 2007.
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    While poststructuralist feminist theorists have clarified our understanding of the gendered subject as produced through a matrix of language, culture, and psycho-sexual affects, they have found agency difficult to ground. I argue that this is because in these theories the body has served primarily as an inscribed surface. In response to this surface body, particular to this age, I have turned to Merleau-Ponty's concept of depth which allows us to theorize the agency crucial to feminist politics.…Read more
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    A Phenomenology of “The Other World”
    Chiasmi International 9 221-234. 2007.
    As we know, Merleau-Ponty was struggling with a dynamic shift in his thinking at the premature end of his life. In those last notes he raises the question of how to elaborate a phenomenology of “’the other world’, as the limit of a phenomenology of the imaginary and the ‘hidden’”—a phenomenology that would open onto an invisible life, community, other and culture (VI, Jan. 1960). In her essay on “Eye and Mind”, “To Paint the Invisible”, Luce Irigaray shows why Merleau-Ponty was not yet ready t…Read more
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    As people age their actions often become entrenched—we might say they are not open to the new; they are less able to adapt; they are stuck in a rut. Indeed, in The Coming of Age (La Vieillesse) Simone de Beauvoir writes that to be old is to be condemned neither to freedom nor to meaning, but rather to boredom (Beauvoir 1996, 461; 486). While in many ways a very pessimistic account of ageing, the text does provide promising moments where her descriptions do capture other possibilities for aged ex…Read more