Gender, agency, and coercion / edited by Sumi Madhok, Anne Phillips and Kalpana Wilson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.