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Because of its popularity, it has been reprinted in several book-length collections of essays and features in the title (see Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays in Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory (1990) and On Female Body Experience: 'Throwing Like a Girl' and Other Essays (2005)).
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Aug 24, 2014 · In philosophy, the phrase often leads to the consideration of an influential essay in feminist literature, “Throwing Like a Girl,” by the political philosopher Iris Marion Young, who died in...
Young’s “Throwing Like a Girl” is said to be a philosophical investigation consisting of phenomenological evidence of how we live in our bodies. Young seeks to look at what is deemed as forced embodiment.
Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment Motility and Spatiality* IRIS MARION YOUNG Department of Philosophy, Miami University In discussing the fundamental significance of lateral space, which is one of the unique spatial dimensions generated by the human upright posture, Erwin
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The present account will discuss the phenomenon “throwing like a girl” and the contributing factors to the gender differences depicted in Iris Marion Young’s “Throwing Like a Girl.” In Part One, I will provide a reconstruction of Young’s argument set out in her essay.
“Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality” was first published in Human Studies 3 (1980): 137−56, and it is reprinted here with permission of Kluwer Academic Publishers. 10.1007/BF02331805. .
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Oct 12, 2019 · This paper is concerned with the nature of feminine bodily comportment described by Iris Marion Young in ‘Throwing Like a Girl.’ According to Young, the style of movement of women, who undergo patriarchal oppression, reveals their existential status as a socio-historically oppressed group.
