Title The woman in the body : a cultural analysis of reproduction / Emily Martin ; with a new introduction

Edition New and expanded edition Published Boston : Beacon Press, [1992] ©1992

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MELB	306.46 Mar/Wit 1992		AVAILABLE

Description xx, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents 1. Problems and Methods. 1. The Familiar and the Exotic. 2. Fragmentation and Gender -- 2. Science as a Cultural System. 3. Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Menstruation and Menopause. 4. Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Birth -- 3. Women's Vantage Point. 5. Self and Body Image. 6. Menstruation, Work, and Class. 7. Premenstrual Syndrome, Work Discipline, and Anger. 8. Birth, Resistance, Race, and Class. 9. The Creation of New Birth Imagery. 10. Menopause, Power, and Heat -- 4. Consciousness and Ideology. 11. Class and Resistance. 12. The Embodiment of Oppositions. Appendix 1: Interview Questions -- Appendix 2: Biographical Profiles Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 243-263 Subject Women -- Health and hygiene -- Social aspects. Women -- Health and hygiene -- Sociological aspects. Women -- Physiology. Women -- Psychology. LC no. 92007293 ISBN 0807046191 (paperback)

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