Feminist Phenomenology Futures

Distinguished feminist philosophers consider the future of their field and chart its political and ethical course in this forward-looking volume. Engaging with themes such as the historical trajectory of feminist phenomenology, ways of perceiving and making sense of the contemporary world, and the feminist body in health and ethics, these essays affirm the base of the discipline as well as open new theoretical spaces for work that bridges bioethics, social identity, physical ability, and the very nature and boundaries of the female body. Entanglements with thinkers such as Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir, and Arendt are evident and reveal new directions for productive philosophical work. Grounded in the richness of the feminist philosophical tradition, this work represents a significant opening to the possible futures of feminist phenomenological research.

Helen A. Fieldingis Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies and Feminist Research at The University of Western Ontario. She edited (with Christina Schües and Dorothea Olkowski)Time in Feminist Phenomenology (IUP).

Dorothea Olkowski is Professor and former Chair of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and Director of the Cognitive Studies Program. She is author ofPostmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn (IUP),The Universal (In the Realm of the Sensible), andGilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation.

A Feminist Phenomenology Manifesto / Helen A. FieldingIntroduction / Dorothea E. Olkowski and Helen A. Fielding

I. The Future is Now1. Using Our Intuition: Creating the Future Phenomenological Plane of Thought / Dorothea E. Olkowski2. Just Throw Like a Bleeding Philosopher: Menstrual Pauses& Poses, BetwixtHypatia& Bhubaneswari, Half-Visible, Almost Illegible / Kyoo Lee3. Transformative Lines of Flight: From Deleuze to Masoch /Lyat Friedman4. Crafting Contingency / Rachel McCann

II. Negotiating Futures5. Open Future, Regaining Possibility / Helen A. Fielding6. Of Women and Slaves / Debra Bergoffen7. Unhappy Speech, and Hearing Well: Contributions of Feminist Speech ActTheory to Feminist Phenomenology / Beata Stawarska

III. The Ontological Future8. Adventures in the Hyperdialectic / Eva-Maria Simms9. The Murmuration of Birds: AnAnishinaabe Ontology ofMnidoo-Worlding / Dolleen Tisawii'ashiiManning10. Trans-subjectivity/Trans-objectivity / Christine Daigle

IV. Our Future Body Images11. The 'Normal Abnormalities' of Disability and Aging: Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir / Gail Weiss12. The Trans-human Paradigm and the Meaning of Life / Christina Schües13. The Second Person Perspective in Narrative Phenomenology / Annemie Halsema and Jenny Slatman14. Hannah Arendt and Pregnancy in the Public Sphere / Katy Fulfer

V. Present and Future Selves15. Is Direct Perception Arrogant Perception?: Toward a Critical, Playful Intercorporeity / April N. Flakne16. Leadership-in-the-World through an Arendtian Lens / Rita Gardiner17. Identity-in-Difference to Avoid Indifference / Emily S. Lee18. What is Feminist Phenomenology? Looking Backwards and Into the Future / Silvia Stoller

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