The Bodies of Women: Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Differences

by Rosalyn Diprose

Book Overview

What sort of ethics do we need? Rosalyn Diprose argues that the usual approaches to ethics both perpetuate and remain blind to the mechanisms of the subordination of women. In Bodies of Women: Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Differences, she claims that injustice against women is found in the social discourses and practices which both evaluate and constitute their modes of embodiment as improper in relation to men.
Diprose critically analyses the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415097835
• ISBN13: 9780415097833
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"