How Handedness Shapes Lived Experience, Intersectionality, and Inequality
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-23894-9 (ISBN)
As a radical asymmetry in the body, handedness plays a key role in human flourishing. It informs both personal bodily movement and social life, from handshakes and high fives to high tech tools made for one hand or the other. Moreover, with left-handers making up just 10% of the population, handedness presents a significant inequality in lived experience. To live and live well, we must understand handedness.
Peter Westmoreland is a professor in the Ethics Institute at St. Petersburg College, USA. His work has appeared in journals such as the British Journal for the History of Philosophy and Laterality. His co-edited volume Silence, implicites et non-dits chez Rousseau/ Silence, the Implicit and the Unspoken in Rousseau was published in 2020.
1 Introduction: The Lived Experience of the Left.- 2 A Phenomenology of Handedness.- 3 Act Like a Right-Hander: Right Hand Bias in Norms of Proximate Space Inhabitation.- 4 The Phenomenology of Asymmetry and Distinguishing Left and Right.- 5 Throwing Like a Left-Hander: Impacts of Handedness on Athletic Performance.- 6 Sexism Caught Right-Handed: The Norms of Intersecting Gender and Handedness Theory (NIGHT).- 7 Harms of Handedness.- 8 Liberation in the Dexteronormative Society.
"This is an excellent laterality book that deserves to be read and read again. ... For those interested in rethinking the very basis of what handedness means to develop new theoretical models of handedness, Westmoreland's book certainly is worth a read. It has been a long time since I have so found so many new impulses to think about my research in a single text." (Sebastian Ocklenburg, Laterality, June 2, 2023)
“This is an excellent laterality book that deserves to be read and read again. … For those interested in rethinking the very basis of what handedness means to develop new theoretical models of handedness, Westmoreland’s book certainly is worth a read. It has been a long time since I have so found so many new impulses to think about my research in a single text.” (Sebastian Ocklenburg, Laterality, June 2, 2023)
Erscheinungsdatum | 14.03.2024 |
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Zusatzinfo | XVII, 228 p. 6 illus. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Schlagworte | cognitive science • Gender • handedness • Intersectionality • lived experience • Norms • Phenomenology • Sports |
ISBN-10 | 3-031-23894-X / 303123894X |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-23894-9 / 9783031238949 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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