Julia Prager/Sergej Seitz

17Feministische Philosophie und Gendertheorie: Rhetoriken des Körpers

Abstract: The article delivers an outline of key references to rhetoric and rhetoricity in the diverse field of feminist philosophy and gender theory. Starting from the observation that in this area of research, references to rhetoric are primarily made to rethink the concept and meaning of the body and of the embodied speaking subject, the article explores and unravels exemplary constellations of the relationship between corporality and rhetoric. After some preliminary remarks on the status of rhetoric in gender theory in general, the predominant theoretical edifices of Luce Irigaray, Shoshana Felman and Judith Butler are scrutinized. It is intended ...

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