The Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age - Couverture souple

Phipps, Alison

 
9780745648880: The Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0745648886 ISBN 13 : 9780745648880
Editeur : Polity, 2014

Synopsis

The body is a site of impassioned, fraught and complex debate in the West today. In one political moment, left-wingers, academics and feminists have defended powerful men accused of sex crimes, positioned topless pictures in the tabloids as empowering, and opposed them for sexualizing breasts and undermining their ‘natural’ function. At the same time they have been criticized by extreme-right groups for ignoring honour killings and other ‘culture-based’ forms of violence against women. How can we make sense of this varied terrain? In this important and challenging new book, Alison Phipps constructs a political sociology of women’s bodies around key debates: sexual violence, gender and Islam, sex work and motherhood. Her analysis uncovers dubious rhetoric and paradoxical allegiances, and contextualizes these within the powerful coalition of neoliberal and neoconservative frameworks. She explores how ‘feminism’ can be caricatured and vilified at both ends of the political spectrum, arguing that Western feminisms are now faced with complex problems of positioning in a world where gender often comes second to other political priorities. This book provides a welcome investigation into Western politics around women’s bodies, and will be particularly useful to scholars and upper-level students of sociology, political science, gender studies and cultural studies, as well as to anyone interested in how bodies become politicized.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alison Phipps is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Director of Gender Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. Between 2009 and 2012, she was Chair of the Feminist and Women's Studies Association of the UK and Ireland.

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Éditeur
Polity
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0745648886
ISBN 13 
9780745648880
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
216
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780745648873: The Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0745648878 ISBN 13 :  9780745648873
Editeur : Polity Press, 2014
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