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Thinking the body as a basis, provocation and burden of life
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Thinking the body as a basis, provocation and burden of life

by Gert Melville, Carlos Ruta
August 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
259 pages
8h 43m
English
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
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Is My Body My Own?

Reflecting on the Indeterminate Body and Livable Life

Mi cuerpo se inventa en la noche con palabras que cuestan.Alejandra Pizarnik507

Although we struggle for rights over our own bodies, the very bodies for which we struggle are not quite ever only our own.Judith Butler508

De pronto, para ser alguien es imprescindibleencarnar un género absolutoen la reducida superficie de la entrepierna–.Mauro Cabral509

In Undoing Gender, Judith Butler suggests:

If a sperm and egg are necessary for reproduction (and remain so) – and in that sense sexual difference is an essential part of any account a human may come up with about his or her origin – does it follow that this difference shapes the individual ...

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