Feminism And The Body

Author : Londa Schiebinger
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191547603
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism and the Body written by Londa Schiebinger and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-06-22 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Katie Conboy
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231105453
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing on the Body written by Katie Conboy and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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".

Author : Janet Price
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351567098
Total Pages : 755 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Theory and the Body written by Janet Price and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Reader provides students with a comprehensive overview of differing feminist approaches to the body. Its wide range of contributions locate the important historical developments, interdisciplinary perspectives, and key discourses that have shaped this dynamic area of feminist theory.

Author : Janet Price
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415925662
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Theory and the Body written by Janet Price and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Londa L. Schiebinger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198731914
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism and the Body written by Londa L. Schiebinger and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Susan Bordo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520930711
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unbearable Weight written by Susan Bordo and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unbearable Weight is brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless (!) prose, Bordo analyzes a whole range of issues connected to the body—weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much more—in a way that makes sense of our current social landscape—finally! This is a great book for anyone who wonders why women's magazines are always describing delicious food as 'sinful' and why there is a cake called Death by Chocolate. Loved it!"—Katha Pollitt, Nation columnist and author of Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture (2001)

Author : Birke Lynda Birke
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474464432
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism and the Biological Body written by Birke Lynda Birke and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Barbara Brook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317880218
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Perspectives on the Body written by Barbara Brook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Avril Horner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719054693
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Body Matters written by Avril Horner and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do bodies matter? Body Matters is a collection of essays by feminists working in literary and cultural studies which addresses this question from a range of theoretical perspectives.

Author : Elizabeth Grosz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253208620
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Volatile Bodies written by Elizabeth Grosz and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Volatile Bodies demonstrates that the sexually specific body is socially constructed: biology or nature is inherently social and has no pure or natural 'origin' outside culture. Being the raw material of social and cultural organization, it is subject to the endless rewriting and inscription that constitute all sign systems. Grosz demonstrates that the theories of, among others, Freud and Lacan theorize a male body. She then turns to corporeal experiences unique to women--menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, menopause--to lay the groundwork for new theories of sexed corporeality."--Back cover.