Gender, agency and coercion /

"This collection aims to think critically about agency and explore the relationship between agency and coercion in greater depth. In academic, activist, and policy circles alike, feminist work has re-focused attention onto women as agents rather than as passive victims of overwhelming structure...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Madhok, Sumi, Phillips, Anne, 1950-, Wilson, Kalpana
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Series:Thinking gender in transnational times.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.