 In a series of essays written early in her career, Young, (reprinted 2005), captured everyday experiences of women’s embodiment. Such accounts were not simply descriptive, but were aimed, initially, to make evident the way in which the social norms governing female “bodily comportment” yielded an inhibited intentionality, an interruption in the pre-reflexive engagement with our environment to which Merleau-Ponty had drawn our attention (1945 [1962]). So, for example, in “Throwing Like A Girl” (1980) she points to studies which suggest that girls and boys throw in different ways and that women, when attempting physical tasks, frequently fail to use the physical possibilities of their bodies. Here she is echoing the descriptions offered by Beauvoir. Also following Beauvoir, Young suggests that the inhibited intentionality characteristic of female embodiment derives from the fact that women often experience their bodies as things/objects, “looked at and acted upon” (1980 [2005: 39]), as well as the source of capacities. “She often lives her body as a burden, which must be dragged and prodded along, and at the same time protected” (1980 [2005: 36]). For Young, as for Beauvoir, such experiences of embodiment are not a consequence of anatomy, but rather of the situation of women in contemporary society, but they point to significant ways in which female lived embodiment can be an obstacle to intentional engagement with the world.