A Feminist Carnal Sociology?: Embodiment in Sociology, Feminism, and Naturalized Philosophy

Pitts‐Taylor, Victoria

doi:10.1007/s11133-014-9298-4

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“…Subsequent feminist writings have advanced some of the embodiment issues raised by McNay, in notable relation to theorizing the body and agency using (diverse) socio- and biological material perspectives (e.g. Barad, 2003; Haraway, 1988; Pitts-Taylor, 2015). However, further theorizing of the temporal aspects of embodiment is not discernible in these recent works.…”

Section: Embodiment Agency and Time In Feminist And Organizational Rmentioning

confidence: 99%

Temporality and gendered agency: Menopausal subjectivities in women’s work

2018

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This article advances feminist organizational theorizing about embodiment and subjectivity by investigating menopause at work as a temporally constituted phenomenon. We ask how time matters in women’s embodied and subjective experiences of menopause at work. Theoretically, we draw on feminist writers McNay and Grosz to explore the relationship between gendered agency and time in a corpus of 48 qualitative interviews conducted with women employed at two Australian universities about their experiences of menopause. Our empirical analysis identifies three temporal modalities – episodic, helical and relational – that show how gendered organizational subjectivities are not simply temporally situated, but created in and through distinct temporal forces. We offer two contributions to feminist organizational theory: first, by illuminating the ontological role played by time in gendered agency; and second, by fleshing out the notion of a ‘body politics of surprise’ with implications for feminist studies of organizational embodiment, politics and ethics.

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Section: Embodiment Agency and Time In Feminist And Organizational Rmentioning

confidence: 99%

Temporality and gendered agency: Menopausal subjectivities in women’s work

2018

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“…8 In this way, basic image schemas serve as source domains for analogical meaning-making. This grounding of abstract domains in experientially basic domains is part of the recent interdisciplinary convergence on the fundamental “embodiment” of cognition (Barsalou 2008; Cerulo 2015; Glenberg 2010; Ignatow 2007; Lizardo 2009b; Pitts-Taylor 2015; Wilson 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%

Schemas and Frames

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Sociological Theory

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A perennial concern in frame analysis is explaining how frames structure perception and persuade audiences. In this article, we suggest that the distinction between personal culture and public culture offers a productive way forward. We propose an approach centered on an analytic contrast between schemas, which we define as a form of personal culture, and frames, which we define as a form of public culture. We develop an “evocation model” of the structure and function of frames. In the model, frames are conceived as material assemblages that activate a network of schemas, thereby evoking a response when people are exposed to them. We discuss how the proposed model extends, and clarifies, extant approaches, and consider new directions for future research.

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“…In this article, we contribute fresh insights to current sociological debates surrounding the sociology of the body, social agency and embodiment (e.g., Francombe-Webb and Silk, 2015;Shilling, 2016), and the need to theorise 'from' (not just about) lived bodies (Williams and Bendelow, 1998). Debates also crystallise around the linkage between the material body, mind, and world, including the 'natural' environment (Stevens, 2012) as well as the socio-cultural environment, as highlighted within carnal sociology (Crossley, 1995;Hockey and Allen-Collinson, 2007;Pitts-Taylor, 2015). Shilling (2016), in theorising the body as a socio-natural phenomenon, has called for sociologists to address as key topics the processes of embodied learning, and acquisition of culturally-structured practices (both occupational and sporting), including the significance of bodywork and the senses in these processes (Allen-Collinson and Hockey, 2015;Hockey and Allen-Collinson, 2009).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%