This text traces the development and implications of strategies of remembering the body in feminist theory, after what could be termed the somaphobia of early second-wave scholarship that saw attention to bodily matters as a potential point of ambush by hostile commentators. In reinstating the corporeal, however, all the conventional tropes of modernism that have both insisted on a conceptual split between mind and body, and recognised only one form of ‘proper’ embodiment, have been critiqued in the light of postmodernist modes of thought. The turn away from the rigid binaries and categories characteristic of the dominant ways of thinking – whether in the humanities or sciences – has mobilised not simply the emergence of a feminist phenomenology of embodiment, but a growing appreciation of the place of the sciences in understanding the materiality of the body. At the same time, the extension of multiple challenging bioscientific technologies directed to the body and its practices indicates that the recovery of fleshiness is not a final step.
Recenzent představuje jednotlivé příspěvky sborníku, který vzešel z konference v německém Oldenburgu v roce 2005, a hodnotí je jako vesměs inspirativní, odborně a interpretačně vyzrálé a pro českého čtenáře pozoruhodné. Koncepčními tvůrci sborníku jsou manželé Eva Hahnová a Hans Henning Hahn, kteří již ve svých dřívějších publikacích otřásli zavedenými výklady sudetoněmeckých dějin a také v recenzovaném sborníku se prezentují jako výrazní autoři. and This is a review of individual contributions in an essay volume that comes out of a conference held in Oldenburg, Germany, in 2005. The reviewer praises them as thoroughly inspirational works, which are mature in terms of their knowledge of the facts and interpretations, and, for Czech readers, remarkable. The volume is the brainchild of Eva and Hans Henning Hahn, who in their earlier publications challenged established interpretations of Sudeten-German history. Here too they show themselves to be original scholars.