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68Contested Terrains: New Feminist Perspectives on EmbodimentIn Clara Fischer & Luna Dolezal (eds.), New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 1-13. 2018.Feminist theory and philosophy has evinced an ongoing scholarly interest in the body and embodiment. Corporeal feminism, as it has been called by some, theorises the effects of patriarchal power structures on the female body, and hence, on women’s subjectivity and social position. As we progress into the 21st Century, despite several decades of feminist activism and scholarship, women’s bodies continue to be sites of control and contention both materially and symbolically. Issues such as reprodu…Read more
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78New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment (edited book)Palgrave MacMillan. 2018.Despite several decades of feminist activism and scholarship, women’s bodies continue to be sites of control and contention both materially and symbolically. Issues such as reproductive technologies, sexual violence, objectification, motherhood, and sex trafficking, among others, constitute ongoing, pressing concerns for women’s bodies in our contemporary milieu, arguably exacerbated in a neoliberal world where bodies are instrumentalized as sites of human capital. This book engages with these t…Read more
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935The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped BodyLexington Books. 2015.This book investigates the concept of body shame and explores its significance when considering philosophical accounts of embodied subjectivity, providing phenomenological reflections on how the body is shaped by social forces
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199The (In) visible Body: Feminism, Phenomenology, and the Case of Cosmetic SurgeryHypatia 25 (2): 357-375. 2010.This paper will examine the experience of and drive for bodily invisibility in women through the theoretical approaches of phenomenology and social constructionism. An examination of the social disruptions of bodily invisibility and the compulsive avoidance of such instances, particularly with respect to the fastidious maintenance of body comportment and appearance within the narrow parameters afforded by social norms, will lead to an exploration of the conflation of biomedicine with the beauty …Read more
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184Reconsidering the Look in Sartre's: Being and NothingnessSartre Studies International 18 (1): 9-28. 2012.Jean-Paul Sartre's account of the Look in Being and Nothingness is not straightforward and many conflicting interpretations have arisen due to apparent contradictions in Sartre's own writing. The Look, for Sartre, demonstrates how the self gains thematic awareness of the body, forming a public and self-conscious sense of how the body appears to others and, furthermore, illustrates affective and social aspects of embodied being. In this article, I will critically explore Sartre's oft-cited voyeur…Read more
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60The phenomenology of self-presentation: describing the structures of intercorporeality with Erving GoffmanPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 16 (2): 237-254. 2017.Self-presentation is a term that indicates conscious and unconscious strategies for controlling or managing how one is perceived by others in terms of both appearance and comportment. In this article, I will discuss the phenomenology of self-presentation with respect to the phenomenological insights of Edmund Husserl and Merleau-Ponty regarding the visibility of the body within intercorporeal relations through ‘behaviour’ and ‘expression.’ In doing so, I will turn to the work of the Canadian soc…Read more
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1Interview with Professor Gail WeissPerspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy 1 (1): 3-8. 2008.An interview with Gail Weiss concerning her interests and influences, especially the body and embodiment.
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549Self‐Transformations: Foucault, Ethics and Normalized Bodies (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 17 (2). 2009.No abstract
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44The phenomenology of shame in the clinical encounterMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 18 (4): 567-576. 2015.This article examines the phenomenology of body shame in the context of the clinical encounter, using the television program ‘Embarrassing Bodies’ as illustrative. I will expand on the insights of Aaron Lazare’s 1987 article ‘Shame and Humiliation in the Medical Encounter’ where it is argued that patients often see their diseases and ailments as defects, inadequacies or personal shortcomings and that visits to doctors and medical professionals involve potentially humiliating physical and psychol…Read more
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37Body Shame and Female ExperienceIn Isabella Marcinski & Hilge Landweer (eds.), Dem Erleben Auf der Spur: Feminismus Und Die Philosophie des Leibes, Transcript Verlag. pp. 45-68. 2016.
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231Starting with Merleau-Ponty (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 21 (4). 2013.No abstract
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1087Thinking through the Body with Richard ShustermanInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 22 (1): 129-141. 2014.No abstract
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24Body/Self/Others: The Phenomenology of Social Encounters (edited book)SUNY Press. 2017.Examines the lived experience of social encounters drawing on phenomenological insights.