Abstract
The world about me presents me with an invitation - I respond. That invitation itself is only explicable in the light of the original question my body has put to the world. We may turn back and forth and become dizzy in our turning, but we will not discover an absolute priority in either body or world. I am free to act in the face of my world: my freedom is in its turn shaped by that world. There is neither absolute freedom nor an absolute and passive determinism. There is only the reality and life of a ‘situated freedom’. (Merleau-Ponty, 1962: 102)
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Prendergast, S. (2016). ‘To become dizzy in our turning’: Girls, body-maps and gender as childhood ends. In The Body, Childhood and Society (pp. 101–124). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-333-98363-8_6
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