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Gender, Agency, and Coercion ThinkingGenderinTransnationalTimes SeriesEditors:ClareHemmings,KimberleyHutchings,HakanSeckinelginand SadieWearing Titlesinclude: SumiMadhok,AnnePhillips,andKalpanaWilson GENDER,AGENCY,ANDCOERCION ThinkingGenderinTransnationalTimes SeriesStandingOrderISBN978–0–230–35843–0hardback (outsideNorthAmericaonly) Youcanreceivefuturetitlesinthisseriesastheyarepublishedbyplacingastanding order.Pleasecontactyourbookselleror,incaseofdifficulty,writetousattheaddress belowwithyournameandaddress,thetitleoftheseriesandtheISBNquotedabove. CustomerServicesDepartment,MacmillanDistributionLtd,Houndmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS,England Gender, Agency, and Coercion Editedby Sumi Madhok LondonSchoolofEconomics,UK Anne Phillips LondonSchoolofEconomics,UK and Kalpana Wilson LondonSchoolofEconomics,UK Selectionandeditorialmatter©SumiMadhok,AnnePhillips,and KalpanaWilson2013 Individualchapters©theirrespectiveauthors2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-0-230-30032-3 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copied,ortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. 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AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 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 v vi Contents 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, vii viii NotesonContributors 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 NotesonContributors ix 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).
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