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A Phenomenology for Women of Color: Merleau-Ponty and Identity in Difference explores how phenomenology can help philosophy of race explain the persistence of race as a key indicator of social standing through lived experiences. Engaging with the work of women of color to think more deeply about our racial and gendered structural relations with one another, Emily S. Lee argues that phenomenology is helpful in two ways: (1) Race, as socially constructed, is phenomenal, and (2) Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology centrally figures embodiment and therefore applies to both feminist and race concerns. Lee defines the phenomenon of race as a structure that mediates one’s situatedness in the world and relations with others; that is open-ended, both externally and internally; and that creatively develops. Drawing on the ideas from Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and—especially—Merlau-Ponty, this book depicts the dynamic and creative expressions of race and racism to address the ambiguity within the experiences of race and sex and ultimately to conceptualize the identity group “women of color.”

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Emily S. Lee has become one of our leading philosophers of race, making use of the phenomenological tradition to complexify racial identities and understand the dynamic character of their embodiment. This book presents her fully developed view and shows how the lens of women of color enhances the potential of phenomenology itself to address relationality and the varied forms of oppression. --Linda Martín Alcoff, Hunter College In A Phenomenology for Women of Color: Merleau-Ponty and Identity-in-Difference, Emily S. Lee offers a courageous analysis of the fleshy theories of women of color using major themes in Merleau-Pontyian phenomenology. Within this forging of phenomenology, Lee is moved by women of color, disclosing their multiple-situated embodied experience in which their very movement is marked, as well as by their desire for coalition anchored in heterogeneous commonality. To follow Lee's phenomenological analysis of the phenomenon of race is to take seriously the critical promise of phenomenology, daring the reader to listen to women of color in an intellectual and political climate that undervalues their lives and thought. --Mariana Ortega, Penn State University

Emily S. Lee has become one of our leading philosophers of race, making use of the phenomenological tradition to complexify racial identities and understand the dynamic character of their embodiment. This book presents her fully developed view and shows how the lens of women of color enhances the potential of phenomenology itself to address relationality and the varied forms of oppression. --Linda Martín Alcoff, Hunter College In A Phenomenology for Women of Color: Merleau-Ponty and Identity in Difference, Emily S. Lee offers a courageous analysis of the fleshy theories of women of color using major themes in Merleau-Pontyian phenomenology. Within this forging of phenomenology, Lee is moved by women of color, disclosing their multiple-situated embodied experience in which their very movement is marked, as well as by their desire for coalition anchored in heterogeneous commonality. To follow Lee's phenomenological analysis of the phenomenon of race is to take seriously the critical promise of phenomenology, daring the reader to listen to women of color in an intellectual and political climate that undervalues their lives and thought. --Mariana Ortega, Penn State University

In A Phenomenology for Women of Color: Merleau-Ponty and Identity-in-Difference, Emily S. Lee offers a courageous analysis of the fleshy theories of women of color using major themes in Merleau-Pontyian phenomenology. Within this forging of phenomenology, Lee is moved by women of color, disclosing their multiple-situated embodied experience in which their very movement is marked, as well as by their desire for coalition anchored in heterogeneous commonality. To follow Lee's phenomenological analysis of the phenomenon of race is to take seriously the critical promise of phenomenology, daring the reader to listen to women of color in an intellectual and political climate that undervalues their lives and thought. --Mariana Ortega, Penn State University Emily S. Lee has become one of our leading philosophers of race, making use of the phenomenological tradition to complexify racial identities and understand the dynamic character of their embodiment. This book presents her fully developed view and shows how the lens of women of color enhances the potential of phenomenology itself to address relationality and the varied forms of oppression. --Linda Martín Alcoff, Hunter College

Emily S. Lee has become one of our leading philosophers of race, making use of the phenomenological tradition to complexify racial identities and understand the dynamic character of their embodiment. This book presents her fully developed view and shows how the lens of women of color enhances the potential of phenomenology itself to address relationality and the varied forms of oppression. --Linda Mart�n Alcoff, Hunter College In A Phenomenology for Women of Color: Merleau-Ponty and Identity-in-Difference, Emily S. Lee offers a courageous analysis of the fleshy theories of women of color using major themes in Merleau-Pontyian phenomenology. Within this forging of phenomenology, Lee is moved by women of color, disclosing their multiple-situated embodied experience in which their very movement is marked, as well as by their desire for coalition anchored in heterogeneous commonality. To follow Lee's phenomenological analysis of the phenomenon of race is to take seriously the critical promise of phenomenology, daring the reader to listen to women of color in an intellectual and political climate that undervalues their lives and thought. --Mariana Ortega, Penn State University

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Emily S. Lee is professor of philosophy at California State University, Fullerton.

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