01Papers · Jan 1980
Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment Motility and Spatiality
Iris Marion YoungThis groundbreaking 1980 essay analyzes the particularity of feminine bodily experience through a phenomenological lens. Young combines Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of the body with de Beauvoir's existentialist feminism to explore how patriarchal society shapes women's bodily comportment, movement patterns, and spatial perception, revealing how gendered bodily experience limits women's agency and self-realization.