Body that matter J. Butler (2024)

Body Figural and Material In the Work of Judith Butler, The

Austl. Feminist LJ, 2008

Matter and Indifference: Realism and Anti-realism in Feminist Accounts of the Body

Idealism, Relativism, and Realism, 2020

Abstract: Recently, influential critics have argued that feminist accounts of the bodyare insufficientlyrealist and materialist.These emphasize the body’ssocial or discursive ‘construction’ at the expense of biological morphogenesis. The way feminists ‘bracket’ the body’sbiological statusprevents them from theorizing the relation and interaction of social and biological forces. While these materialist critiquescorrectlydiagnose issues with certain anti-realist accounts of embodi-ment,which contestthat the bodyhas a biological essence, most feminist ac-counts of embodiment,Iargue, are not anti-realist in this respect.Indeed, con-trary to an increasinglyinfluential view,feminist accounts of discursive construction are not inherentlyanti-realist or anti-materialist.The real issue with constructivist accounts is not thatthey exclude the body’sorganic or bio-logical substance, as the materialists argue, but rather the assumption that dis-cursive construction refers exclusively to culturalprocesses. Thus, Ipropose re-readingfeminist new materialist critiques as motivatingthe extension of ‘discur-sive construction’ beyond the human.

Bodies, Sexes, Genders

Radical Philosophy Review, 2011

THE BODY : LIMITS, CONSTRUCTIONS, INTENSITY

The Body as an Epistemological Metaphor1 of Modernism

Tekstualia, 2013

The article focuses on issues connected with literature and philosophy, and presents the body as an epistemological metaphor in modernism. The matter of corporeality in the prose of Bruno Schulz and Witold Gombrowicz is understood not just as a specifically developed literary motif and a potential object of scholarly research, but also as a philosophical category (the problem of materiality), and also an anthropological one.

This Abstract Body: The Self, the Body and Identity (1992)

In focusing on the body, this article seeks to consider two related themes. Firstly, it examines how bodily symbolism is part of a process of connecting and defining the self and the community. The easiest way to do this is comparatively, contrasting forms of embodiment in different contexts from tribalism to postmodern capitalism. This then allows us to broach a second theme: is the reconstitution of our lived senses of our bodies in contemporary western society stripping the body of its capacity to enrich the social connectedness of people? The current sense of an image-dictated, shapable body; the current debates over whether or not advances in medical technology are an unproblematic liberation from the constraints of our mortal bodies; and recent developments in feminist attitudes to embodiment will be considered to reveal the tensions and contradictions in the textured modem/postmodern constitution of the body. Our overriding concern is to argue through the need for alternative practices of human interrelation which attempt to bind considerations about the value or otherwise of the various modes of disembodied extension within a framework which instantiates in practice the condensed and complex limitations on embodiment entailed in face-to-face relations. This is not an argument for a return to kinship-based or close-knit parochial communities. Nevertheless, it asserts the ontological importance of relations of continuity, reciprocity and co-operation in which the constraints of embodiment are not simply impediments to be left behind as soon as is technologically possible.

Contemporary Feminist Body Theories and Mencius's Ideas of Body and Mind

Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 2000

A Feminist Critique of Body in Philosophy and Sociology

KARE- International Comparative Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy, 2020

The body has always been considered to be significant since the existence of humanity. It has not merely been analysed as the body, a living organism; rather, it has also been analysed in terms of its socio-cultural facets and political perspectives. Given this, the body has also been discussed through its biological and cultural characteristics, which resulted in oppositions between the body and soul as well as the body and mind. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to express philosophical and sociological evaluation of body. It is also within the purpose of this study to scrutinise socialised body characteristics in tandem with philosophical contexts through seminal critiques and theories. In this respect, Angela Carter’s selected works will be scrutinised in terms of socialised body characteristics such as ‘the role of social body, the socialisation of body, the nudity as the naked body, the transformation of individual body to social body (homo duplex), the duality in body, the existence of body (habitus), and clothing and identity in body’, which can be seen in Carter’s female characterisations and in the formation of their subversive body politics. Keywords: Philosophy of Body, Sociology of Body, Body Politics, Body, The Female Body, Socialised Body, A Feminist Critique, Angela Carter.

(Re-)embodying which body? Philosophical, cross-cultural and personal reflections on corporeality

The body as a narrative horizon

Thinking the Limits of the Body, 2003