SE01 E03: Throwing Like a Girl

This episode discusses the work of feminist philosopher Iris Marion Young. Her article “Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Bodily Comportment, Motility and Spatiality,” (1980) continues to have relevance in 2024. 

Special thanks to Megan Dean, Grayson Hunt and Jane Dryden. Also, thank you so much to the Amplify Podcast Network, Stacey Copeland and Hannah McGregor for all of your mentorship.

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Article: 

Young, Iris Marion. “Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Bodily Comportment, Motility and Spatiality,” Human Studies 3, pp. 137-156, 1980. 

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fulllist/special/transnational/iris_marion_young.pdf

Other works referenced: 

Heyes, Cressida, 2020. Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2020

Sullivan, Shannon. Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege. Indiana University Press, 2006.

Nussbaum, Martha. “Objectification,” in Philosophy and Public Affairs; Fall 1995; 24(4): 249-291. https://www.mit.edu/~shaslang/mprg/nussbaumO.pdf

Marianne Wex’s Photographs https://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/project/marianne-wex-at-badischer-kunstverein-karlsruhe-7299

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. (1962) Phenomenology of Perception, trans. Colin Smith. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Cahill, Ann. “Feminist Pleasure and Feminine Beautification,” in Hypatia 18(4), November 2003, pp. 42-64.  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2003.tb01412.x

Sound: 

Pres, Josef. 2024. “Piano loops 128 effect octave long loop” Freesound, https://freesound.org/people/josefpres/sounds/723002/ 

Seth_Makes_Sounds. 2024. “Brainstatic v1”, Freesound, https://freesound.org/people/Seth_Makes_Sounds/sounds/730699/