Lived bodies: women’s experience of sex and gender

Lothian, Julie-Anne

Title: Lived bodies: women’s experience of sex and gender
Creator: Lothian, Julie-Anne
Subject: Lived body
Subject: Human body Sociological aspects
Subject: Women Sociological aspects
Subject: Sex role
Subject: Gender
Date Issued: 2014-04-11
Date: 2014-04-11
Type: Academic theses
Type: Master's theses
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69445
Identifier: vital:29538
Description: This thesis will discuss the category of women, as a social group, through a phenomenological understanding of women’s subjective experiences. In arguing for the phenomenological perspective of the lived body, I show the ways in which other conceptions of women’s embodied subjectivity ultimately fail to provide comprehensive accounts of the lived experience of being a woman. I begin with an investigation into how biological determinists hypothesise women’s bodies as sexed. I then move to respond to Judith Butler’s poststructuralist feminist account of the gendered body. Finally, I argue that the embodied experience of being a woman is best explained as an ambiguous relationship between socially constructed expectations of femininity and biological materiality.
Description: Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Political and International Studies, 2014
Format: computer
Format: online resource
Format: application/pdf
Format: 1 online resource (75 pages)
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University
Publisher: Faculty of Humanities, Philosophy
Language: English
Rights: Lothian, Julie-Anne
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)

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