Search Results for bodily autonomy

... of color critique and considers the implications for rights to bodily autonomy. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 bodily autonomy police violence queer activism queer of color critique sex work In thinking about the lived contours and political...

... between abortion and transition still only brushes the surface of their profound political entanglement. Eclipsing the infringement of a right to privacy, or the self-determination of the liberal subject's bodily autonomy, political attacks are also organized by a fundamentalist literalism about sexual...

... of policing Black reproduction and Black bodily autonomy. Sarah, would you be willing to start? Sarah Haley : Sure, and thanks for that opening, Emily. It's characteristically brilliant and has me thinking of so many connections between our work. You're making me think about how, in All Our Trials...

..., Stanley's sustained attention to structural violence and the material realities of immiseration is essential: a necessary counter that refuses to pretend that bodily autonomy and gender self-determination are extricable from the broader, saturating operations of racial capitalism. Their ongoing articulation...

....” This reading is by no means meant to elide Salvadoran women's agency during the armed conflict. AMES organized under unfathomably harsh conditions, adopting fierce stances on gender oppression and women's bodily autonomy as materialist feminists in guerrilla-controlled territory (Sierra Becerra 2017...

... warming and climate disasters, not to mention the evaporation of basic civil rights protections and the right to bodily autonomy. These phenomena, of course, cause the greatest havoc in working-class communities of color like those of Huntington Park, CA, which constitute what Steven Thrasher ( 2022...

... as a powerful symbol of Black women s leader- ship. West came from a social context where Black nationalist and Black feminist politics were prominent and where bodily autonomy in the haptics of racial fetish- ism and racialized violence mattered. This aesthetic and political militancy were an aspect of Black...

... focus of transnational trans politics in the last twenty years. As Grinspan indicates, international institutions like the United Nations (UN) and World Health Organization debate the question of children's bodily autonomy in relation to gender identity primarily through guides like the International...

... circumcision that considers bodily autonomy, ethics, and the rights of the child alongside the rights of the future adult, see, for example, Earp and Darby 2017 . 5. While trans and intersex are distinct, they also overlap, and they share an entangled history. See Griffiths 2018a and Hubbard...

... definitions of bodily autonomy and safe space, one invariably confronts histories of colonial- ism, slavery, and national security. We find that a dossier, rather than a longer, single- authored article, exposes more of the ways security operates. This dossier intervenes in the queer and feminist search...

... agency in a queer, posthumanist context. Butler's vampires become figures through which the text highlights conflicting desires (for independence and dependence, autonomy and belonging) that flow through the seemingly unified modern subject. This novel reinforces feminist and queer critiques of humanist...

... locations where sexual activities are powerful positive experiences. He explains that this can happen when the “promotion of sexual autonomy, designed to enhance the capability for persons who are differently-abled, is conducted with the aim that they co-determine their sexual relations” (163). Chapter...

... that encases the characters that we ourselves enact in our everyday lives. Such a perspective assumes not transcendence but inter­ dependence. The novel thus theorizes bodily autonomy and individuality as a facade among scattered body parts endowed with grief and, later, sarcasm...

...” to be sustained — features that pertain to the phenomenological structure of bodily life. To live is always to live a life that is at risk from the outset and that can be put at risk or expunged quite suddenly for reasons that are not always under one’s control. That said...

... and activist discourses precisely because they were written from a black radical standpoint within the forming neoliberal order, a standpoint that exploits for liberation, col- lective autonomy, communal survival, and economic redistribution the structural contradictions immanent to the modes...

... entitled to pro- tection from discrimination.9 The court recognized that subjecting an intersex child to surgery may violate the child’s right to autonomy and bodily integrity. It also acknowledged, however, that parents have rights to privacy and family auton- omy that must be considered...

... about corporeal integrity and unfettered personal autonomy — beliefs that might be self-­evidently wrong but maintain a powerful grip all the same. Her concern throughout the book is to envision an activism capable of moving beyond the inscription of the irregular into quotidian governmentality...

... original state. This article deploys the term somatechnics to think through the varied and complex ways in which bodily-being is always already shaped by technés—from, for example, the surgeon's knife to the discourses that justify and contest the use of such instruments. I argue...

... own claim to autonomy and to life.13 Whereas Butler is specifically addressing the formation of the heterosexual sub- ject, the process of displacement and exclusion she describes is key to the main- tenance of fictional unities across a variety of social diacritics. And, like all...

... queer theory must do more than focus on bodily sensations such as pleasure, shame, and touching. The essay makes four key claims: first, that the desensitized postsurgical body cannot be accounted for by a queer discourse in which sexual pleasure is a form of hedonistic activism; second, that a queer...