Drawing on recent feminist discussions, this collection critically reassesses ideas about agency, exploring the relationship between agency and coercion in greater depth and across a range of disciplinary perspectives and ethical contexts.

This book theorizes agency and coercion across a range of disciplinary perspectives

Introduction; S.Madhok, A.Phillips & K.Wilson Choosers or Losers? Feminist Ethical and Political Agency in a Plural and Unequal World; K.Hutchings The Feminist Subject of Agency: Recognition and Affect in Encounters with 'the Other'; C.Hemmings & A.Kabesh The Meaning of Agency; M.Evans The Unbearable Lightness of Theory: Political Ontology and Social Weightlessness in Mouffe's Radical Democracy; L.McNay Agency as 'Smart Economics': Neoliberalism, Gender and Development; K.Wilson Action, Agency, Coercion: Reformatting Agency for Oppressive Contexts; S.Madhok Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in UN Peacekeeping Missions: Problematising Current Responses; M.Henry Does the Body Make a Difference?; A.Phillips Rejecting the Choice Paradigm: Rethinking the Ethical Framework in Prostitution and Egg Sale Debates; H.Widdows Compensating Egg Donors; E.Jackson Reproblematising Relations of Agency and Coercion: Surrogacy; S.Ashenden Representing Agency and Coercion: Feminist Readings and Postfeminist Media Fictions; S.Wearing As if Postfeminism had come True: the Turn to Agency in Cultural Studies of 'Sexualisation'; R.Gill & N.Donaghue Afterword; S.Madhok, A.Phillips & K.Wilson