Embodiment / by L. Cooper.

[United Kingdom] : L. Cooper, 2017.

10 unnumbered pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm

Dated: June 2017

"In the final year of my BSc I read an essay written in 1980 by Iris Marion Young called 'Throwing Like A Girl'. In it, she uses case studies to demonstrate the gendering of motility - the different ways 'men' and 'women' enact their physicality (for example, how they throw a ball). Individuals categorised as women by Young are, as a result of the material, cultural, social and political make up of their lives, encouraged to consider their own bodies as object-like and so experience an incapacity - the 'I cannot' - a fragility, a self-consciousness. Although there are some very valid criticisms of her essay, I could see myself in it."--Back cover.

Title from cover.

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