The concept of the body is one of the most recent, and hotly contested areas of inquiry among philosophers today.Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Situating the Body: Donn Welton.
Part I: Contested Constructions:.
1. Sex and Gender.
Man and Woman: Rom Harr&eacute.
2. Gender and Performance.
Selections from Gender Trouble: Judith Butler.
3. Power, Practice, and the Body.
Material Girl : The Effacements of Postmodern Culture: Susan Bordo.
4. The Question of Materiality.
Material Bodies: Susan Heckman;.
Selection from Bodies that Matter: Judith Butler;.
Bringing Body to Theory: Susan Bordo.
5. Renaturalization Theory.
Renaturalizing the Body (with the Help of Merleau-Ponty): Carol Bigwood.
Part II: Constitutional Matrices:.
6. Lived Body.
A Tale of Two Bodies: the Cartesian Corpse and the Lived Body: Drew Leder.
7. Body Image and Body Schema.
Body Image and Body Schema in a Deafferented Subject: Shaun Gallagher and Jonathan Cole.
8. Natural Powers and Animate Form.
Corporeal Archetypes and Power: Preliminary Clarifications and Considerations of Sex: Maxine Sheets-Johnstone.
9. Affectivity and Eros.
Affectivity, Eros and the Body: Donn Welton.
10. Habitualities.
The Ghost of Embodiment: on Bodily Habitudes and Schemata: Edward Casey.
Part III: The Flesh of Culture:.
11. Biblical Roots.
Biblical Bodies: Donn Welton.
12. Slós