Gender, Agency, and Coercion

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Choosers or Losers? Feminist Ethical and Political Agency in a Plural and Unequal World....Pages 14-28
The Feminist Subject of Agency: Recognition and Affect in Encounters with ‘the Other’....Pages 29-46
The Meaning of Agency....Pages 47-63
The Unbearable Lightness of Theory: Political Ontology and Social Weightlessness in Mouffe’s Radical Democracy....Pages 64-83
Agency as ‘Smart Economics’: Neoliberalism, Gender and Development....Pages 84-101
Action, Agency, Coercion: Reformatting Agency for Oppressive Contexts....Pages 102-121
Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in UN Peacekeeping Missions: Problematising Current Responses....Pages 122-142
Does the Body Make a Difference?....Pages 143-156
Rejecting the Choice Paradigm: Rethinking the Ethical Framework in Prostitution and Egg Sale Debates....Pages 157-180
Compensating Egg Donors....Pages 181-194
Reproblematising Relations of Agency and Coercion: Surrogacy....Pages 195-218
Representing Agency and Coercion: Feminist Readings and Postfeminist Media Fictions....Pages 219-239
As if Postfeminism Had Come True: The Turn to Agency in Cultural Studies of ‘Sexualisation’....Pages 240-258
Afterword....Pages 259-261
Back Matter....Pages 262-280