edited by Sumi Madhok, Anne Phillips, Kalpana Wilson.
Basingstoke
Palgrave Macmillan
2012
Thinking gender in transnational times.
Introduction; S. Madhok, A. Phillips & K. Wilson --;Choosers or Losers? Feminist Ethical and Political Agency in a Plural and Unequal World; K. Hutchings --;The Feminist Subject of Agency: Recognition and Affect in Encounters with 'the Other'; C. Hemmings & A. Kabesh --;The Meaning of Agency; M. Evans --;The Unbearable Lightness of Theory: Political Ontology and Social Weightlessness in Mouffe's Radical Democracy; L. McNay --;Agency as 'Smart Economics': Neoliberalism, Gender and Development; K. Wilson --;Action, Agency, Coercion: Reformatting Agency for Oppressive Contexts; S. Madhok --;Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in UN Peacekeeping Missions: Problematising Current Responses; M. Henry --;Does the Body Make a Difference?; A. Phillips --;Rejecting the Choice Paradigm: Rethinking the Ethical Framework in Prostitution and Egg Sale Debates; H. Widdows --;Compensating Egg Donors; E. Jackson --;Reproblematising Relations of Agency and Coercion: Surrogacy; S. Ashenden --;Representing Agency and Coercion: Feminist Readings and Postfeminist Media Fictions; S. Wearing --;As if Postfeminism had come True: the Turn to Agency in Cultural Studies of 'Sexualisation'; R. Gill & N. Donaghue --;Afterword; S. Madhok, A. Phillips & K. Wilson.
Drawing on recent feminist discussions, this collection critically reassesses ideas about agency, exploring the relationship between agency and coercion in greater depth and across a range of disciplinary perspectives and ethical contexts.
Agency (Law)
Duress (Law)
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
HQ1190
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E358
2012
edited by Sumi Madhok, Anne Phillips, Kalpana Wilson.