Format:
Online-Ressource (vi, 204 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2005 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0253214408
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0253338530
Content:
Explores the dynamic relationship between bodies and the world around them.What if we lived across and through our skins as much as we do within them? According to Shannon Sullivan, the notion of bodies in transaction with their social, political, cultural, and physical surroundings is not new. Early in the 20th century, John Dewey elaborated human existence as a set of patterns of behavior or actions shaped by the environment. Underscoring the continued relevance of his thought, Sullivan brings Dewey int
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-200) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION: Transactional Bodies after Dewey; ONE: Living Across and Through Skins, Bodies in Transaction; TWO: Discursivity and Materiality, The Lived Experience of Transactional Bodies; THREE: Communicating with Another Transaction and Merleau-Ponty 's Phenomenology of Corporeal Existence; FOUR: Reconfiguring Gender - Habit, Bodies, and Cultural Change; FIVE: Transactional Somaesthetics - Nietzsche, Women, and the Transformation of Bodily Experience; SIX: Transactional Knowing - Toward a Pragmatist-Feminist Standpoint Theory
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CONCLUSION: Transaction and the Dynamic Distinctiveness of RacesNotes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253338532
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Living Across and Through Skins : Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and Feminism
Language:
English
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