Gender, Agency, and Coercion
Editors: Madhok, S., Phillips, A., Wilson, K., Hemmings, C. (Eds.)
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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SAMANTHA ASHENDEN Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK NGAIRE DONAGHUE Associate Professor of Social Psychology in the School of Psychology at Murdoch University, Western Australia, Australia MARY EVANS Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, UK ROSALIND GILL Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at King's College London, UK CLARE HEMMINGS Professor of Gender Studies and Gender Theory at the London School of Economics, UK MARSHA HENRY Lecturer in Gender, Development and Globalisation at the London School of Economics, UK KIMBERLY HUTCHINGS Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, UK EMILY JACKSON Professor of Law at the London School of Economics, UK AMAL TREACHER KABESH Associate Professor in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, UK LOIS MCNAY Professor of Political Theory at Oxford University, UK SADIE WEARING Lecturer in Gender, Media and Culture at the London School of Economics, UK HEATHER WIDDOWS Professor of Global Ethics in the Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, UK
- Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-13
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Choosers or Losers? Feminist Ethical and Political Agency in a Plural and Unequal World
Pages 14-28
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The Feminist Subject of Agency: Recognition and Affect in Encounters with ‘the Other’
Pages 29-46
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The Meaning of Agency
Pages 47-63
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The Unbearable Lightness of Theory: Political Ontology and Social Weightlessness in Mouffe’s Radical Democracy
Pages 64-83
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Gender, Agency, and Coercion
- Editors
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- S. Madhok
- A. Phillips
- K. Wilson
- Clare Hemmings
- Series Title
- Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-29561-3
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137295613
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-30032-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-33612-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 289
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