Format:
1 online resource (249 pages)
ISBN:
9780691212623
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Submission: A Philosophical Taboo -- Female Submission and Feminism -- Submission from Women's Point of View -- A Matter of Perspective -- Which Women? -- Domination and Submission -- With Beauvoir -- 2. Is Submission Feminine? Is Femininity a Submission? -- Are Women Masochistic? -- Submission: A Feminine Virtue? -- To Be a Woman Is to Submit -- 3. Womanhood as a Situation -- Sexual Difference Is Not a Matter of Essences -- Femininity as Social Construction? -- Situation and Sexual Difference -- Femininity, Situation, and Destiny -- 4. Elusive Submission -- Submission and Ordinary Life -- An Analysis of Power from the Bottom Up -- The History of an Inversion -- What Can We Know about Submission? -- Can the Subaltern Speak? -- 5. The Experience of Submission -- A Privileged Position -- An Original Phenomenological Method -- Phenomenology and the Silence of the Oppressed -- The Experience of All Women? -- 6. Submission Is an Alienation -- Oppression as Alienation -- The Woman-Object -- 7. The Objectified Body of the Submissive Woman -- Woman Cannot Abstract Herself from Her Body -- The Biological Body Is Social -- A Lived Body That Can Be Objectified: What Men and Women Have in Common -- The Alienation of Women: The Objectified Lived Body -- From the Body-Object to the Passive Prey -- 8. Delights or Oppression: The Ambiguity of Submission -- Beauty -- Love-Abdication -- The Power of Submission -- 9. Freedom and Submission -- An Ethics of Freedom -- Why Women Submit to Men -- Toward Emancipation -- Conclusion: What Now? -- Notes -- Index.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691201825
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Garcia, Manon, 1985 - We are not born submissive Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021 ISBN 9780691201825
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Geschlechterforschung
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Frau
;
Unterdrückung
;
Feminismus
;
Sexualität
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691212623
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691212623
