| Description |
ix, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Embody-ing theory : beyond modernist and postmodernist readings of the body / Kathy Davis -- Reading the body : young women's accounts of their bodies in relation to autonomy and independence / Anne Woollett and Harriette Marshall -- Performing the body, creating culture / Anna Aalten -- Female bodies and brittle bones : medical interventions in osteoporosis / Ineke Klinge -- The body of gender difference / Gesa Lindemann -- Victims or offenders? : "other" women in French sexual politics / Rachel A. Bloul -- Sex as usual : body politics and the media war in Serbia / Dubravka Zarkov --Erotic bodies : images of the disabled / Gon Buurman -- Women's public toilets : a serious issue for the body politic / Julia Edwards and Linda McKie -- Chic outrage and body politics / Joanne Finkelstein -- "My body is my art" : cosmetic surgery as feminist Utopia? / Kathy Davis -- The researching body : the epistemophilic project / Monica Rudberg |
| Summary |
"This book focuses on the significance of the body in contemporary feminist scholarship. In recent years, the body has become a 'hot item' in both contemporary social theory and research. This renewed interest has received a mixed reaction from feminists. While the body may be back, the 'new' body theory often proves to be just as disembodied as it ever was. The body revival seems to be less an attempt to re-embody masculinist science than just another expression of the same condition which evoked the feminist critique in the first place: a flight from femininity and everything that is associated with it in western culture.Embodied Practices offers a critical appraisal of the recent 'body revival', drawing upon insights from contemporary feminist theories on gender and power to explore the subject. The book sets an agenda not only for research about the body but for an embodied perspective on the body as well."--Publisher's description |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Body image in women.
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Body image.
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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
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Femininity (Philosophy)
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Femininity.
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Feminist theory.
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Self-perception in women.
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Sex role.
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Women -- Health and hygiene -- Sociological aspects.
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Women -- Health and hygiene.
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| Author |
Davis, Kathy, 1949-
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| LC no. |
97067935 |
| ISBN |
0761953620 (hardcover) |
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0761953639 (paperback) |
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9780761953623 (hardcover) |
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9780761953630 |
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