Embodiment and Agency Book

Introduction Minding Bodies Letitia Meynell Meynell, Letitia 1

Pt. I Becoming Embodied Subjects

1 Emotional Metamorphoses: The Role of Others in Becoming a Subject Kym Maclaren Maclaren, Kym 25

2 Racial Grief and Melancholic Agency Angela Failler Failler, Angela 46

3 A Knowing That Resided in My Bones: Sensuous Embodiment and Trans Social Movement Alexis Shotwell Shotwell, Alexis 58

4 The Phrenological Impulse and the Morphology of Character Rebecca Kukla Kukla, Rebecca 76

5 Personal Identity, Narrative Integration, and Embodiment Catriona Mackenzie Mackenzie, Catriona 100

6 Bodily Limits to Autonomy: Emotion, Attitude, and Self-Defense Sylvia Burrow Burrow, Sylvia 126

Pt. II Embodied Relations, Political Contexts

7 Relational Existence and Termination of Lives: When Embodiment Precludes Agency Susan Sherwin Sherwin, Susan 145

8 A Body No Longer of One's Own Monique Lanoix Lanoix, Monique 164

9 Premature (M)Othering: Levinasian Ethics and the Politics of Fetal Ultrasound Imaging Jacqueline M.Davies Davies, Jacqueline M. 184

10 Inside the Frame of the Past: Memory, Diversity, and Solidarity Sue Campbell Campbell, Sue 211

11 Collective Memory or Knowledge of the Past: "Covering Reality with Flowers" Susan E. Babbitt Babbitt, Susan E. 234

12 Agency and Empowerment: Embodied Realities in a Globalized World Christine M. Koggel Koggel, Christine M. 250

Index 273