Vulnerability and Violence: Transgressing the Gender Binary

Beata Stawarska

doi:10.54195/HSOV8373

Vulnerability and Violence: Transgressing the Gender Binary

Authors

Beata Stawarska

University of Oregon

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54195/HSOV8373_CH02

Synopsis

María Isabel Peña Aguado is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the Diego Portales University, Santiago de Chile. She works on aesthetics, feminism and gender studies, as well as on political theory. Some selected publications are Das ‘schöne’ Denken: Der Ort des Weiblichen in Philosophie, Ästhetik und Literatur (2014), “Body Indeterminate: The Precariousness of the Body in Feminist Discourse” (2015), “El feminismo y sus caballos de Troya” (2016), Filósofas en con-texto (2016) and “Antígona, de mito androcéntrico a símbolo feminista. Una reflexión” (2021).

Author Biography

Beata Stawarska, University of Oregon

Beata Stawarska is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, USA. She engages with thinkers such as Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Saussure, J. L. Austin, Beauvoir, Kristeva, Irigaray, and others. Selected publications include Between You and I: Dialogical Phenomenology (Ohio UP 2009) and Saussure’s Philosophy of Language as Phenomenology: Undoing the Doctrine of the Course in General Linguistics (Oxford UP 2014). Her research focuses on embodiment, gender and sexual difference, race and anti-racism, expression and performativity, as well as on the historiography of linguistics and the making (and re-making) of an established canon of philosophy.