On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays (Studies in Feminist Philosophy)
Iris Marion Young's classic essays examine how social norms shape female bodily experience, from movement and space to objectification and identity.
About This Book
This volume gathers influential essays by Iris Marion Young on the phenomenology of female embodiment.
The collection centers on the essay "Throwing Like a Girl," which analyzes how gendered norms shape bodily movement and spatial awareness.
Young draws on existential and phenomenological traditions to examine everyday experiences such as pregnancy, menstruation, and objectification.
The essays connect personal bodily experience to broader structures of power, oppression, and social meaning.
Published as part of the Studies in Feminist Philosophy series, the book remains a foundational text in feminist theory and philosophy of the body.
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