Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader

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Routledge, 25 sept. 2017 - 504 pages
This Reader provides students with a comprehensive overview of differing feminist approaches to the body. Its wide range of contributions locate the important historical developments, interdisciplinary perspectives, and key discourses that have shaped this dynamic area of feminist theory.
 

Table des matières

Acknowledgements
Introduction
and Race
Ancient and Contemporary Views
How Does a Black Woman
Why We Should Add Old Fashioned Empirical
Introduction
Tomboys and Tarts
The Body in Theory
Introduction
On Teratology and Embodied
Interview from Warrior Marks
African Woman
Transcendence of the Body
Introduction
Boundaries

Cybersexuality
Cybersex
Cancer
Adventure in Applied Deconstruction
Historical Perspective on Science
Storm before the Calm
How Science has Constructed a Romance
Feminism and the New Reproductive
Determinations of Self
Introduction
Feminisms
Difference
Politics of the Body
Spaces
A MorningMourning Ritual
Narration in Midnights Children
Introduction
Female Theatrical CrossDressing
the Boundaries of the Broken Body
Outrageous Arms
Cosmetic Surgery as Feminist Utopia?
the Lesbian Dildo Debates
Copyright Acknowledgements
Subject Index
Name Index
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Janet Price teaches at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Margrit Shildrick is a Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, and the Institute of Women's Studies, Lancaster.

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