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Author : Janet Price
Release : 1999
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 662/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Feminist Theory and the Body by : Janet Price
Download or read book Feminist Theory and the Body written by Janet Price. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Katie Conboy
Release : 1997
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 453/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Writing on the Body by : Katie Conboy
Download or read book Writing on the Body written by Katie Conboy. This book was released on 1997. 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 : Londa L. Schiebinger
Release : 2000
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 914/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Feminism and the Body by : Londa L. Schiebinger
Download or read book Feminism and the Body written by Londa L. Schiebinger. This book was released on 2000. 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 : Barbara Brook
Release : 2014-06-11
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 226/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Feminist Perspectives on the Body by : Barbara Brook
Download or read book Feminist Perspectives on the Body written by Barbara Brook. This book was released on 2014-06-11. 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 : Alison M. Jaggar
Release : 1989
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 799/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gender/body/knowledge by : Alison M. Jaggar
Download or read book Gender/body/knowledge written by Alison M. Jaggar. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this interdisciplinary collection share the conviction that modern western paradigms of knowledge and reality are gender-biased. Some contributors challenge and revise western conceptions of the body as the domain of the biological and 'natural, ' the enemy of reason, typically associated with women.
