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Feminism and the Body
Author | : Londa Schiebinger |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2000-06-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780191547607 |
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This collection of classic essays in feminist body studies investigates the history of the image of the female body; from the medical 'discovery' of the clitoris, to the 'body politic' of Queen Elizabeth I, to women deprecated as 'Hottentot Venuses' in the nineteenth century. The text look at the way in which coverings bear cultural meaning: clothing reform during the French Revolution, Islamic veiling, and the invention of the top hat; as well as the embodiment of cherished cultural values in social icons such as the Statue of Liberty or the Barbie doll. By considering culture as it defines not only women but also men, this volume offers both the student and the general reader an insight into the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural study involved in feminist body studies.
Feminist Theory and the Body
Author | : Janet Price,Margrit Shildrick |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0415925665 |
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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Feminism and the Body
Author | : Londa L. Schiebinger,Professor History of Science Londa Schiebinger |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780198731917 |
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This collection of classic essays in feminist body studies investigates the history of the image of the female body; from the medical 'discovery' of the clitoris, to the 'body politic' of Queen Elizabeth I, to women deprecated as 'Hottentot Venuses' in the nineteenth century. The text look atthe way in which coverings bear cultural meaning: clothing reform during the French Revolution, Islamic veiling, and the invention of the top hat; as well as the embodiment of cherished cultural values in social icons such as the Statue of Liberty or the Barbie doll. By considering culture as itdefines not only women but also men, this volume offers both the student and the general reader an insight into the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural study involved in feminist body studies.
Writing on the Body
Author | : Katie Conboy,Nadia Medina,Sarah Stanbury |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0231105452 |
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This work comprises a collection of influential readings in feminist theory. It is divided into four sections: "Reading the Body"; "Bodies in Production"; "The Body Speaks"; and "Body on Stage".
Feminist Perspectives on the Body
Author | : Barbara Brook |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2014-06-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317880219 |
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Feminist Perspectives on the Body provides an accessible introduction to this extremely popular new area and is aimed at students from a variety of disciplines who are interested in gaining an understanding of the key issues involved. The author explores many important topics including: the Western world's construction of the body as a theoretical, philosophical and political concept; the body and reproduction; medicalisation; cosmetic surgery and eating disorders; the body in performance; the private and the public body; working bodies and new ways of thinking about the body.
Feminism and the Biological Body
Author | : Birke Lynda Birke |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2019-06-01 |
Genre | : Feminist theory |
ISBN | : 9781474464437 |
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Bodies may be currently fashionable in social and feminist theory, but their insides are not. Biological bodies always seem to drop out of debates about the body and its importance in Western culture. They are assumed to be fixed, their workings uninteresting or irrelevant to theory. Birke argues that these static views of biology do not serve feminist politics well. As a trained biologist, she uses ideas in anatomy and physiology to develop the feminist view that the biological body is socially and culturally constructed. She rejects the assumption that the body's functioning is somehow fixed and unchanging, claiming that biological science offers more than just a deterministic narrative of 'how nature works'. Feminism and the Biological Body puts biological science and feminist theory together and suggests that we need a politics which includes, rather than denies, our bodily flesh.
Young Women and the Body
Author | : L. Frost |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2001-03-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780333985410 |
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Young Women and the Body sets out to examine why the current generation of young women seem to be deeply unhappy with their own bodies. Dieting and disguising are commonplace, and inflicting serious harm by no means rare in fourteen to eighteen year olds. Despite prophesies to the contrary boys and adults are suffering far less. Drawing on feminist social constructionist perspectives the book seeks to examine this epidemic of body-hatred.
The Making of Our Bodies Ourselves
Author | : Kathy Davis |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2007-09-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780822390251 |
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The book Our Bodies, Ourselves is a feminist success story. Selling more than four million copies since its debut in 1970, it has challenged medical dogmas about women’s bodies and sexuality, shaped health care policies, energized the reproductive rights movement, and stimulated medical research on women’s health. The book has influenced how generations of U.S. women feel about their bodies and health. Our Bodies, Ourselves has also had a whole life outside the United States. It has been taken up, translated, and adapted by women across the globe, inspiring more than thirty foreign language editions. Kathy Davis tells the story of this remarkable book’s global circulation. Based on interviews with members of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, the group of women who created Our Bodies, Ourselves, as well as responses to the book from readers, and discussions with translators from Latin America, Egypt, Thailand, China, Eastern Europe, Francophone Africa, and many other countries and regions, Davis shows why Our Bodies, Ourselves could never have been so influential if it had been just a popular manual on women’s health. It was precisely the book’s distinctive epistemology, inviting women to use their own experiences as resources for producing situated, critical knowledge about their bodies and health, that allowed the book to speak to so many women within and outside the United States. Davis provides a grounded analysis of how feminist knowledge and political practice actually travel, and she shows how the process of transforming Our Bodies, Ourselves offers a glimpse of a truly transnational feminism, one that joins the acknowledgment of difference and diversity among women in different locations with critical reflexivity and political empowerment.