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.

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.

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