| Description |
viii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Jane Arthurs and Jean Grimshaw -- 2. Don't Touch Me (I'm Electric): On Gender and Sensation in Modernity / Michelle Henning -- 3. Temporality, Materiality: Towards a Body in Time / Tamsin Wilton -- 4. Racializing Femininity / Lola Young -- 5. Working out with Merleau-Ponty / Jean Grimshaw -- 6. 'Doing Looks': Women, Appearance and Mental Health / Liz Frost -- 7. Revolting Women: The Body in Comic Performance / Jane Arthurs -- 8. Talking Dirty in For Women Magazine / Clarissa Smith -- 9. The Bearded Lesbian / Mandy Kidd -- 10. The Girls Can't Hack It: The Changing Status of the Female Body in Representations of New Technology / Julia Moszkowicz |
| Summary |
Comprising essays focusing on the representation of women's bodies in historical and contemporary cultures, this book compares the two different approaches to the body adopted by a soft-porn magazine, For Women, and Cosmopolitan |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Body image.
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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
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Human body in literature.
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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Women -- Identity.
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Women -- Psychology.
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Women -- Social conditions.
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| Author |
Arthurs, Jane.
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Grimshaw, Jean.
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| LC no. |
97034289 |
| ISBN |
0304339628 (hc) |
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0304339636 (pb) |
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