Women's Bodies Between National Hospitality and Domestic Biopolitics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4389539 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rosalyn Diprose (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-86 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Paragraph (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0264-8334 • E-ISSN: 1750-0176 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/e0264833409000418 |
| OpenAlex | W2105572215 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
This paper develops a political ontology of hospitality from the philosophies of Arendt, Derrida and Levinas, paying particular attention to the gendered, temporal, and corporeal dimensions of hospitality. Arendt's claim, that central to the human condition and democratic plurality is the welcome of 'natality' (innovation or the birth of the new), is used to argue that the more that this hospitality becomes conditional under conservative political forces, the more that the time that it takes is given by women without acknowledgement or support. Women's bodies are thus caught within the dual poles of conservative government: regulation of the unpredictable expressions of 'natality' in the 'home' and management of the uniformity and 'security' of the nation. The limitations in Arendt's political ontology of hospitality are addressed by adding consideration of the operation of biopolitics and of the body as bios
Acknowledgement · Biopower · Democracy · Epistemology · Hospitality · Ontology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2017 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |