ABOUT THIS BOOK

This startling volume explores the traumas and possibilities of embodiment as it is lived in a political world. Unveiling the influence of phenomenology, particularly that of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, on contemporary thought. Bodies of Resistance cuts across the disciplines of philosophy, political theory, literature, and cultural studies to explore anew how we are at once produced by yet resistant to cultural norms.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

LAURA DOYLE is an associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her book Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture received the George and Barbara Perkins Prize from the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. She is also the recipient of an ACLS Fellowship and a Rockefeller Fellowship.

REVIEWS

"This collection is both timely and important. It will help establish the necessity of grounding discussions of the body in careful philosophical analyses and go a long way toward reminding us of ways in which phenomenology broke ground and can continue to break ground in exploring the meanings of our embodiment." —Debra Bergoffen, George Mason University

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: The Resistant Material
Laura Doyle

Part I. (Dis)Embodiment in Political Philosophy

Chiasmus in the Polis: The Reversible Flesh of Community in Political Philosophy
Jacob Rogozinski

The "Body Politic" and Social Contract Theory: The Phenomenon of "Total Alienation"
Claudia Brodsky Lacour

Part II. Political Bodies in Initimate Alterity

Sexual Difference as a Question of Ethics: Alterities of the Flesh in Irigaray and Merleau-Ponty
Judith Butler

Bodies Inside/Out: A Phenomenology of the Terrorized Body in Prison
Laura Doyle

Part III. Gazing Bodies Made Visible

Matrixial Gaze and Screen: Other Than Phallic and Beyond the Late Lacan
Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger

Hidden Aspects of Goethe's Writings on Color, Seeing and Motion and Their Significance for a Feminist Visual Theory
Beate Allert

Part IV. Racial Bodies Performing Resistance

Legal Bodies, Racial Bodies: Autobiography and Autonomy in Patricia Williams's Alchemy of Race and Rights
Janis Greve

Post-World War II Black Diaspora Musics as Material Practice: Preliminary Thoughts on Time, Culture, and Politics
Kevin Gaines

Part V. Colonial Bodies: Mapping and Counter-Mapping

Method Practice: Toward a Phenomenology of Crosscultural Studies
Cheryl Herr

The Dimensions of History: Colonial Mapping, Architecture, and the Perils of "Constructing Phenomenology"
Daniel Bertrand Monk

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

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