Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Dorothea Olkowski is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Gail Weiss is Director of the Human Sciences Program and Associate Professor of Philosophy at The George Washington University.

• ContentsPrefaceNancy TuanaIntroduction: The Situated SubjectDorothea Olkowski1.Merleau-Ponty and the Problem of Difference in FeminismSonia Kruks2.Only Nature Is Mother to the ChildDorothea Olkowski3.White Logic and the Constancy of ColorHelen Fielding4.The Concept of FleshBeata Stawarska5.Sexual Difference as a Question of Ethics: Alterities of the Flesh in Irigaray and Merleau-PontyJudith Butler6.Culpability and the Double Cross: Irigaray with Merleau-PontyVicky Kirby7.Urban FleshGail Weiss8.Vision, Violence, and the Other: A Merleau-Pontean EthicsJorella Andrews9.Bodies Inside/Out: Violation and Resistance from the Prison Cell to The Bluest EyeLaura Doyle10.Female Freedom: Can the Lived Body Be Emancipated?Johanna Oksala11.Care for the Flesh: Gilligan, Merleau-Ponty, and Corporeal StylesDavid Brubaker12.Language in the Flesh: The Disturbance of Discourse in Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and IrigarayAnn MurphyBibliographyContributorsIndex

“This work is an important addition for specialists, but not geared to undergraduates.”—A. B. Curry Choice