Agency

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2401679
AutoresKatherine Frank (0000-0001-8875-6707, University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Año2006
Volumen6
Número3
Páginas281-302
Fecha de publicación2006-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropological Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1463-4996 • E-ISSN: 1741-2641
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1463499606066889
OpenAlexW4252491638
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas32
Referencias citadas31

Many contemporary arguments about agency rely on implicit psychologies or conceptions of human mental functioning even as they attempt to direct attention away from the idea of a freely acting, completely autonomous individual. This article argues that even when the concept of agency is 'displaced' or reinterpreted away from the liberal subject, the concept always draws on such a psychological base whether those debts are hidden or declared. Drawing on literature from feminist theory, anthropology, and sociology on women's decisions to undergo elective cosmetic surgery, the first section of the article explores ways that agency has been conceptualized with regard to beauty culture and disciplinary bodily technologies in a US context. The second section of this article takes up women's religious practice in Saba Mahmood's Politics of Piety (2005

Agency (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Discipline · Epistemology · Piety · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Philosophy