PHIL 2060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Feminist Theory, Intentionality
29 Feb 2016
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Phenomenology: study of structures of experience the study of phenomena, appearances of things and the way things appear in our experience, so deals with first-person/subjective point of view. What-it"s-like , experience of being in the world. The phenomenology of gender would be, for example, what it"s like to be in the world as a particular gender. Paper seeks to the fill in a gap that exists both in phenomenology and feminist theory. Critiques merleau-ponty"s universal notion of embodiment by appealing to beauvoir"s notion of the situation of the female embodiment is not universal, but rather gendered. Focuses on the way women walk, talk, sit, stand. Not only is there a typical style of . (143) thesis. Three causes for gendered embodiment: so girls walk, stand, etc. a particular way, lack of practice, social learning, objectification woman"s social existence as the object of the gaze of another, ambiguous transcendence:
