Feminist existentialism, biopolitics, and critical phenomenology in a time of bad health

Feminist existentialism, biopolitics, and critical phenomenology in a time of bad health

"This book explores the personal value of healthy behavior, arguing that our modern tendency to praise or blame individuals for their health is politically and economically motivated and has reinforced growing health disparities between the wealthy and poor under the guise of individual respons...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Welsh, Talia, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, New York : Routledge 2021.
[2022]
Edition:1st ed
Series:Interdisciplinary Research in Gender
Subjects:
Health behavior > Social aspects.
Health attitudes > Social aspects.
Public health > Social aspects.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745226506719
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1: The good health imperative
  • Smokers, drinkers, and the fat
  • The cost of smokers, drinkers, and the fat
  • The good health imperative
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 2: A critical phenomenology of health and illness
  • Phenomenologies of illness and disease
  • Health as a being at home and being capable
  • Health as morality: obesity and disability
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 3: Feminist phenomenologies and self-regulating bodies
  • The development of agency to care for the body
  • Female self-regulation
  • Feminist alternatives
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 4: Biopolitics and personal responsibility
  • Foucault's biopolitical revolution
  • The case of childhood obesity
  • Problematizations
  • Parental responsibility
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 5: Marxism, reproductive labor, and the body as fetish object
  • Reproductive labor-dirty and clean work
  • The evolution of human need
  • Body as fetish object
  • Affirmative culture and the good health imperative
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 6: Alternative visions of health- somaesthetics and innumerable healths
  • Create dangerously
  • Creative self-fashioning
  • Nietzsche's innumerable healths
  • Innumerable selves and eternal return of the same
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 7: Toward an existential ethics of working on the self
  • Existential anxiety and bracketing the good health imperative
  • Paths and fitting
  • Roles, ambiguity, and natality
  • Vulnerability and health
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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