Gender, Agency, and Coercion

290 Pages·2013·1.41 MB·English

by  Sumi Madhok

Gender, Agency, and Coercion
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Gender, Agency, and
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Sumi Madhok
LondonSchoolofEconomics,UK
Anne Phillips
LondonSchoolofEconomics,UK
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LondonSchoolofEconomics,UK
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Contents
NotesonContributors vii
1 Introduction 1
SumiMadhok,AnnePhillips,andKalpanaWilson
2 ChoosersorLosers?FeministEthicalandPoliticalAgencyina
PluralandUnequalWorld 14
KimberlyHutchings
3 TheFeministSubjectofAgency:RecognitionandAffectin
Encounterswith‘theOther’ 29
ClareHemmingsandAmalTreacherKabesh
4 TheMeaningofAgency 47
MaryEvans
5 TheUnbearableLightnessofTheory:PoliticalOntology
andSocialWeightlessnessinMouffe’sRadical
Democracy 64
LoisMcNay
6 Agencyas‘SmartEconomics’:Neoliberalism,Genderand
Development 84
KalpanaWilson
7 Action,Agency,Coercion:ReformattingAgencyfor
OppressiveContexts 102
SumiMadhok
8 SexualExploitationandAbuseinUNPeacekeepingMissions:
ProblematisingCurrentResponses 122
MarshaHenry
9 DoestheBodyMakeaDifference? 143
AnnePhillips
10 RejectingtheChoiceParadigm:RethinkingtheEthical
FrameworkinProstitutionandEggSaleDebates 157
HeatherWiddows
11 CompensatingEggDonors 181
EmilyJackson
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12 ReproblematisingRelationsofAgencyandCoercion:Surrogacy 195
SamanthaAshenden
13 RepresentingAgencyandCoercion:FeministReadingsand
PostfeministMediaFictions 219
SadieWearing
14 AsifPostfeminismHadComeTrue:TheTurntoAgencyin
CulturalStudiesof‘Sexualisation’ 240
RosalindGillandNgaireDonaghue
15 Afterword 259
SumiMadhok,AnnePhillips,andKalpanaWilson
Index 262
Contributors
Samantha Ashenden is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of
Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published on
Foucault, Habermas, and Luhmann; on problems of power, authority, and
legitimacywithinmodernstates;andonfeministtheory,childsexualabuse,
andthecontemporaryregulationofsurrogacyagreements.Sheistheauthor
of Governing Child Sexual Abuse: Negotiating the Boundaries of Public and Pri-
vate,LawandScience(2004),andco-editor(withChrisThornhill,University
ofGlasgow) ofLegalityandLegitimacy:NormativeandSociological Approaches
(2010). Her current work focuses on two themes: violence and legitimacy,
andlaw,reproductivetechnologies,andthegovernanceoffamilies.
Ngaire DonaghueisAssociateProfessorofSocialPsychologyintheSchool
of Psychology at Murdoch University, Western Australia. Her research cen-
tresonissuesconcerninggenderedembodiment,withaparticularfocuson
criticalfeministunderstandingsofbodydissatisfactionandbeautypractices.
Mary Evans has written about various aspects of feminism and feminist
narratives, including work on Simone de Beauvoir and Jane Austen. She is
currentlyworkingonastudyofthecontinuityofclassandgenderinequality
(provisionallytitledRe-WritingMiddlemarch).SheisaCentennialProfessorat
theLondonSchoolofEconomics(LSE).
Rosalind Gill is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at King’s College
Londonandauthororeditorofseveralbooks,includingGenderandtheMedia
(2007)andSecrecyandSilenceintheResearchProcess(withRóisínRyan-Flood,
2009).Hercurrentresearchfocusesonthreebroadresearchareas:thecritical
examination of the ‘sexualisation of culture’; changing representations of
gender, race, and class in the media; and the experiences of workers in the
culturalandcreativeindustries.
ClareHemmingsisProfessorofFeministTheoryattheLSE.Herresearchhas
twomaindirections:historiesandpracticesoffeministtheoryandsexuality
and globalisation. Her most recent book is Why Stories Matter: The Political
GrammarofFeministTheory(2011).
Marsha Henry is Lecturer in Gender, Development, and Globalisation
and Co-Director of the MPhil/PhD Programme in Gender at the LSE. She
joined the LSE in July 2009, having previously taught at the University of
Bristol, the University of British Columbia, Canada, the Open University,
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andWarwickUniversity.Herresearchinterestsfocusonthreemainresearch
areas:gender,‘race’andhealth;gender,developmentandmilitarisation;and
feminist,diasporic,andqualitativemethodologies.
Kimberly Hutchings is Professor of International Relations at the LSE. She
specialises in the fields of ethical and political theory, including feminist
theory. She is the author of Kant, Critique and Politics (1996), International
PoliticalTheory (1999),HegelandFeministPhilosophy (2003),TimeandWorld
Politics (2008), and Global Ethics: An Introduction (2010). Her current work
focuses on questions of ethical and political judgement in the interna-
tionalcontext,andsheisengagedinalong-termcollaborativeproject(with
Elizabeth Frazer) on the relation between violence and politics in Western
politicalthought.
Emily Jackson is Professor of Law at the LSE. She is the author of Medical
Law(2nded.2010),DebatingEuthanasia(2011),andLawandtheRegulation
ofMedicines(2012).
Amal Treacher Kabesh is Associate Professor in the School of Sociology
and Social Policy, University of Nottingham. She is currently completing
a book titled Landscapes of Masculinities: In the Shadow of the Other. The
monographisapsychosocialstudyofEgyptianandBritishmasculinitiesand
emotions.
Sumi Madhok is Lecturer in Transnational Gender Studies at the LSE. Her
researchinterestsincludetransnationalgenderanalysis,feministsocialand
politicaltheory,vernacularrightscultures,postcoloniality,andSouthAsian
politics. Her monograph titled Rethinking Agency: Developmentalism, Gender
andRightswillbepublishedin2013.
Lois McNay is Professor of Political Theory at Oxford University. Her most
recent book is Against Recognition (2009), and she is currently finishing a
booktitledTheMisguidedSearchforthePolitical,tobepublishedin2013.
Anne Phillips is Professor of Political and Gender Theory at the LSE. She
worksinfeministpoliticaltheoryandhaswrittenonequalityanddifference,
democracy and representation, gender and multiculturalism, bodies and
property. Her publications include Multiculturalism without Culture (2007),
WhichEqualitiesMatter?(1999),ThePoliticsofPresence(1995),andEngender-
ingDemocracy(1991).Hermostrecentbook,OurBodies,WhoseProperty?,will
bepublishedin2013.
SadieWearingisLecturerinGender,MediaandCultureattheLSE.Shehas
published on issues of postfeminism, ageing, and culture and is currently
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workingonabookonfeministtheoryandrepresentationsofageing.Sheis
authorofGenderandMedia(withNiallRichardson,2013).
HeatherWiddowsisProfessorofGlobalEthicsintheDepartmentofPhilos-
ophy, University of Birmingham, where she teaches moral philosophy and
bioethics. In 2005, she was awarded a visiting fellowship at Harvard Uni-
versity, where she worked on issues of moral neo-colonialism. She is editor
of the Journal of Global Ethics and series editor of The Edinburgh Series in
GlobalEthicsandservesasamemberoftheUKBiobankEthicsandGover-
nance Council. Her publications include Global Ethics: An Introduction, The
Moral Vision of Iris Murdoch, and edited collections on the governance of
genetic information, women’s reproductive rights, and global social justice
inadditiontoarticlesandbookchaptersonallherareasofinterest.
Kalpana Wilson is LSE Fellow in Transnational Gender Studies at the LSE
and also teaches Development Studies at Birkbeck. Her research interests
include ‘race’, gender and development, neoliberal policies and discourses,
feminist political economy, and women’s participation in rural labour
movements in India. She is the author of Race, Racism and Development:
InterrogatingHistory,DiscourseandPractice(2012).