Existential Eroticism

A Feminist Approach to Understanding Women's Oppression-Perpetuating Choices

By (author) Shay Welch

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Publication date:

13 August 2015

Length of book:

256 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498505420

Existential Eroticism: A Feminist Approach to Understanding Women's Oppression-Perpetuating Choices offer a unique lens aimed at the underbelly of the lady through which feminists can reorient discourses on rationality and moral responsibility related to women’s oppression-perpetuating choices. Shay Welch utilizes feminist ethics, broadly construed as feminist philosophy concerned with the ethical commitment to eliminate oppression, to scrutinize how women regard and judge one another and to offer a more representative account of restriction, rationality, and responsibility to begin the healing process between diverse and divergent women. The book aims not only to construct an analysis of self-perpetuated oppression that will broaden feminist understandings of experiences that motivate many women to choose as they do, it serves as a means of understanding the marginalized.

Chapter Two: Existential Eroticism and Autonomy
Chapter Three: Forms of Restriction and Systemic Patriarchy
Chapter Four: Duress and Necessity under Existential Eroticism
Chapter Five: Trauma as Desperation
Chapter Six: Desperate Rationality
Chapter Seven: Self-Perpetuated Oppression: Individuated Acts, Complicity, and Moral Responsibility
Chapter Eight: Blaming and Forgiving Each Other

This is no small achievement. As I read the book, these insights are important because they apply more generally than just to the experience of marginal women. . . I think it achieves something. . . remarkable, which is to show that reflecting on invisible, marginal lives illuminates the experience of the privileged.