Description |
ix, 500 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm |
Series |
Oxford readings in feminism |
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Oxford readings in feminism.
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Contents |
Skeletons in the closet: the first illustrations of the female skeleton in eighteenth-century anatomy / Londa Schiebinger -- 'Amor veneris, vel dulcedo appeletur' / Thomas W. Laqueur -- The birth of sex hormones / Nelly Oudshoorn -- Doubtful sex / Alice Domurat Dreger -- Icons of divinity: portraits of Elizabeth I / Andrew Belsey and Catherine Belsey -- Freedom of dress in revolutionary France / Lynn Hunt -- Gender, race, and nation: the comparative anatomy of 'Hottentot' women in Europe, 1815-1817 / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Hard labor: women, childbirth, and resistance in British Caribbean slave societies / Barbara Bush -- The slipped chiton / Marina Warner -- The development of horticulture in the eastern woodlands of North America: women's role / Patty Jo Watson and Mary C. Kennedy -- I could have retched all night: Charles Darwin and his body / Janet Browne -- The Jewish foot: a foot-note to the Jewish body / Sander L. Gilman -- The ideal couple: a question of size? / Sabine Gieske -- The anthropometry of Barbie: unsettling ideals of the feminine body in popular culture / Jacqueline Urla and Alan C. Swedlund -- Foot-binding in neo-Confucian China and the appropriation of female labor / C. Fred Blake -- The forbidden modern: civilization and veiling / Nilüfer Göle |
Summary |
"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 'Hottentat Venuses' in the nineteenth century. The text looks 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."--BOOK JACKET |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Body image in women.
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Human body -- Political aspects.
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Human body -- Symbolic aspects.
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Feminist theory.
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Women -- Physiology.
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Author |
Schiebinger, Londa L.
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LC no. |
00038537 |
ISBN |
0198731914 (alk. paper) |
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