Embodiment and the Law

The law currently sees bodies as passive material upon which our values are inscribed rather than as an active part of the production of normative values. Rethinking current legal understandings of embodiment, this book proposes that peoples’ experiences of embodiment play an important role in the development of normative values and that the legal system should adopt an embodied understanding of all individuals. Examining perspectives from multiple sub-disciplines, the book develops an extended