“I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.” WantBodyFacesChoicesAttitudeEconomicJudgmentDeservePressureAppearanceArguingIdeology Author:Naomi Wolf
“An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution than a human body and the principle of human equality is an even higher form than a nation” HumansWarBodyFormNationsPrinciplesEvolutionHigherMoralityArguingHuman BodyHuman Equality Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals
“We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an anaesthetised body. I would be the last person to argue that the body signifies at some basic level that precedes or transcends its cultural inscriptions. Nevertheless, there is an ethical imperative not to conflate the body with its representations and mediations, but to remember that there is an actual body there somewhere, experiencing the consequences of what is being done to it.” NeedsPersonsDoneBodyHappensWould BeLastsRememberLevelsConsequenceArguingEthicalNeverthelessRepresentationImperativesBeing DoneMediationInscriptions Author:Philip Auslander
“The person and society are yoked, like mind and body. Arguing which is more important is like debating whether oxygen or hydrogen is the more essential property of water.” MindPersonsImportantBodyWaterSocietyEssentialsPropertyArguingOxygenMind And BodyHydrogen Book:The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s