This book focuses on the significance of the body in contemporary feminist scholarship. In recent years, the body has become a `hot item' in both contemporary social theory and research. This renewed interest has received a mixed reaction from feminists. While the body may be back, the `new' body theory often proves to be just as disembodied as it ever was. The body revival seems to be less an attempt to re-embody masculinist science than just another expression of the same condition which evoked the feminist critique in the first place: a flight from femininity and everything that is associated with it in western culture.
Embodied Practices offers a critical appraisal of the recent `body revival', drawing upon insi
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Kathy Davis is Associate Professor of Women′s Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Utrecht in The Netherlands. She is author of Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery (1995) and Power Under the Microscope: Toward a Grounded Theory of Gender Relations in Medical Encounters (1988).
CONTRIBUTORS
Anna Aalten University of Amsterdam
Rachel AD Bloul ANU Canberra
Gon Buurman Amsterdam
Julia Edwards University of Glamorgan
Joanne Finkelstein Monash University
Ineke Klinge University of Utrecht
Gesa Lindeman University of Frankfurt
Harriette Marshall Staffordshire University Stoke on Trent
Linda McKie University of Aberdeen
Monica Rudberg University of Oslo
Anne Woollett University of East London, Stratford
Dubravka Zarkov Nijmegen
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