Gender, Agency, and Coercion

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Sumi Madhok, Anne Phillips, Kalpana Wilson

   Pages 1-13

3. Choosers or Losers? Feminist Ethical and Political Agency in a Plural and Unequal World

   • Kimberly Hutchings

   Pages 14-28

4. The Feminist Subject of Agency: Recognition and Affect in Encounters with ‘the Other’

   • Clare Hemmings, Amal Treacher Kabesh

   Pages 29-46

5. The Meaning of Agency

   • Mary Evans

   Pages 47-63

6. The Unbearable Lightness of Theory: Political Ontology and Social Weightlessness in Mouffe’s Radical Democracy

   • Lois McNay

   Pages 64-83

7. Agency as ‘Smart Economics’: Neoliberalism, Gender and Development

   • Kalpana Wilson

   Pages 84-101

8. Action, Agency, Coercion: Reformatting Agency for Oppressive Contexts

   • Sumi Madhok

   Pages 102-121

9. Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in UN Peacekeeping Missions: Problematising Current Responses

   • Marsha Henry

   Pages 122-142

10. Does the Body Make a Difference?

    • Anne Phillips

    Pages 143-156

11. Rejecting the Choice Paradigm: Rethinking the Ethical Framework in Prostitution and Egg Sale Debates

    • Heather Widdows

    Pages 157-180

12. Compensating Egg Donors

    • Emily Jackson

    Pages 181-194

13. Reproblematising Relations of Agency and Coercion: Surrogacy

    • Samantha Ashenden

    Pages 195-218

14. Representing Agency and Coercion: Feminist Readings and Postfeminist Media Fictions

    • Sadie Wearing

    Pages 219-239

15. As if Postfeminism Had Come True: The Turn to Agency in Cultural Studies of ‘Sexualisation’

    • Rosalind Gill, Ngaire Donaghue

    Pages 240-258

16. Afterword

    • Sumi Madhok, Anne Phillips, Kalpana Wilson

    Pages 259-261

17. Back Matter

    Pages 262-280

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Drawing on recent feminist discussions, this collection critically reassesses ideas about agency, exploring the relationship between agency and coercion in greater depth and across a range of disciplinary perspectives and ethical contexts.

• Cultural Studies
• democracy
• feminism
• gender
• neoliberalism

• London School of Economics, UK

  Sumi Madhok, Anne Phillips, Kalpana Wilson

SAMANTHA ASHENDEN Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK NGAIRE DONAGHUE Associate Professor of Social Psychology in the School of Psychology at Murdoch University, Western Australia, Australia MARY EVANS Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, UK ROSALIND GILL Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at King's College London, UK CLARE HEMMINGS Professor of Gender Studies and Gender Theory at the London School of Economics, UK MARSHA HENRY Lecturer in Gender, Development and Globalisation at the London School of Economics, UK KIMBERLY HUTCHINGS Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, UK EMILY JACKSON Professor of Law at the London School of Economics, UK AMAL TREACHER KABESH Associate Professor in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, UK LOIS MCNAY Professor of Political Theory at Oxford University, UK SADIE WEARING Lecturer in Gender, Media and Culture at the London School of Economics, UK HEATHER WIDDOWS Professor of Global Ethics in the Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, UK

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