ON FEMALE BODY EXPERIENCE STUDIESINFEMINISTPHILOSOPHY CheshireCalhoun,SeriesEditor AdvisoryBoard SusanBordo,UniversityofKentucky HarryBrod,TempleUniversity ClaudiaCard,UniversityofWisconsin LorraineCode,YorkUniversity,Toronto KimberleCrenshaw,ColumbiaLawSchool/UCLASchoolofLaw JameFlax,HowardUniversity AnnGarry,CaliforniaStateUniversity,LosAngeles SallyHaslanger,MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology HildeHein,CollegeoftheHolyCross AlisonJagger,UniversityofColorado,Boulder HelenLongino,UniversityofMinnesota MariaLugones,SUNYBinghamton UmaNarayan,VassarCollege JamesSterba,UniversityofNotreDame RosemarieTong,UniversityofNorthCarolina,Charlotte NancyTuana,UniversityofOregon KarenWarren,MacalesterCollege Publishedintheseries: GenderintheMirror:ConfoundingImagery DianaTietjensMeyers Autonomy,Gender,Politics MarilynFriedman OnFemaleBodyExperience:“ThrowingLikeaGirl”andOtherEssays IrisMarionYoung ON FEMALE BODY EXPERIENCE “Throwing Like a Girl” and Other Essays Iris Marion Young 1 2005 3 Oxford NewYork Auckland Bangkok BuenosAires CapeTown Chennai DaresSalaam Delhi HongKong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Mumbai Nairobi Sa˜oPaulo Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Copyright2005byOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. PublishedbyOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NewYork10016 www.oup.com OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,orotherwise, withoutthepriorpermissionofOxfordUniversityPress. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Young,IrisMarion,1949– Onfemalebodyexperience:“Throwinglikeagirl”andotheressays/IrisMarionYoung. p.cm.—(Studiesinfeministphilosophy) Includesindex. ISBN0-19-516192-0;0-19-516193-9(pbk.) 1. Feministtheory. 2. Women—Psychology. 3. Women—SocialConditions. 4. Body, Human—Socialaspects. 5. Sexrole. I. Title. II. Series HQ1190.Y6792004 305.42’01—dc22 2004044842 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica onacid-freepaper For Morgen, again This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments All but one of these essays has been previously published, and I grate- fully acknowledge the editors of the journals and books in which they have appeared: “Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Com- portment, Motility, and Spatiality” was first published in Human Stud- ies3(1980):137−56,anditisreprintedherewithpermissionofKluwer Academic Publishers. “Pregnant Embodiment: Subjectivity and Alienation” appeared in Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 9.1 (January 1984): 45−62. It is reprinted with permission of Martin Scrivener. A shorter version of “Women Recovering Our Clothes” appeared in Postmodernism and Continental Philosophy, ed. Hugh Silverman and Donn Welton (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988), 144−52, and it is reprinted by permission. The advertisement from the Woolmark Company facing “Women Recovering Our Clothes” is re- printed from Self (Fall 1985). A shorter version of “Breasted Experience: The Look and the Feel- ing” was published in Medicine and Lived Body, ed. Drew Leder and Mary Rawlinson (D. Reidel/Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990); it is reprinted by permission. AllfourofthesearticleswerecollectedinIrisMarionYoung,Throw- ing Like a Girl and Other Essays in Feminist Philosophy and Female Body Experience (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990). “House and Home: Feminist Variations on a Theme” was first pub- lished in Iris Marion Young, Intersecting Voices: Dilemmas of Gender, Political Philosophy and Policy (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997); it is reprinted by permission. viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS “A Room of One’sOwn: Old Age, Extended Care, andPrivacy” is a revisedversionofanessaypublishedinPrivacies:PhilosophicalEvalua- tions, ed. Beate Roessler (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004); reprinted by permission. “Lived Body vs. Gender: Reflections on Social Structure and Subjec- tivity”wasfirstpublishedinRatio:AnInternationalJournalofAnalytic Philosophy 15.4 (December 2002): 410−28; reprinted with permission of Blackwell Publishing. IamgratefultoCheshireCalhounforencouragingmetocollectthese essays, together with the previously unpublished “Menstrual Medita- tions,” into a volume for this series. Contents Introduction 3 1. LivedBodyvs.Gender:ReflectionsonSocialStructure andSubjectivity 12 2. ThrowingLikeaGirl:APhenomenologyofFeminineBody Comportment,Motility,andSpatiality 27 3. PregnantEmbodiment:SubjectivityandAlienation 46 4. WomenRecoveringOurClothes 62 5. BreastedExperience:TheLookandtheFeeling 75 6. MenstrualMeditations 97 7. HouseandHome:FeministVariationsonaTheme 123 8. ARoomofOne’sOwn:OldAge,ExtendedCare,andPrivacy 155 Index 171