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The Body and Shame - Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body (Hardcover)
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The Body and Shame - Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body (Hardcover)
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The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially
Shaped Body investigates the concept of body shame and explores its
significance when considering philosophical accounts of embodied
subjectivity. Body shame only finds its full articulation in the
presence (actual or imagined) of others within a rule and norm
governed milieu. As such, it bridges our personal, individual and
embodied experience with the social, cultural and political world
that contains us. Luna Dolezal argues that understanding body shame
can shed light on how the social is embodied, that is, how the
body-experienced in its phenomenological primacy by the
subject-becomes a social and cultural artifact, shaped by external
forces and demands. The Body and Shame introduces leading
twentieth-century phenomenological and sociological accounts of
embodied subjectivity through the work of Edmund Husserl, Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault and Norbert Elias.
Dolezal examines the embodied, social and political features of
body shame. contending that body shame is both a necessary and
constitutive part of embodied subjectivity while simultaneously a
potential site of oppression and marginalization. Exploring the
cultural politics of shame, the final chapters of this work explore
the phenomenology of self-presentation and a feminist analysis of
shame and gender, with a critical focus on the practice of cosmetic
surgery, a site where the body is literally shaped by shame. The
Body and Shame will be of great interest to scholars and students
in a wide variety of fields, including philosophy, phenomenology,
feminist theory, women's studies, social theory, cultural studies,
psychology, sociology, and medical humanities.
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