Embodied Practices Feminist Perspectives On The Body

Davis, Kathy (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0761953639 / ISBN 13: 9780761953630

Edité par Sage Publications (1997), London, 1997

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No signatures. Some rubbing to ends of spine. Bookseller's price sticker to rear wrapper. ; ix, [1], 210 pages. Illsutrated card wrappers. Illustrated. Page dimensions: 233mm x 145mm. Selected contents: Embody-ing Theory: Beyond Modernist and Postmodernist Readings of the Body; Reading The Body: Young Woman's Accounts of their Bodies in Relation to Autonomy and Independence; Performing The Body, Creating Culture; Female Bodies and Brittle Bones: Medical Interventions in Osteoporosis; The body of Gender Difference; Sex As Usual: Body Politics and the Media War in Serbia; Erotic Bodies: Images of the Disabled. ; 8vo. N° de réf. du vendeur 9550

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Titre : Embodied Practices Feminist Perspectives On ...

Éditeur : Sage Publications (1997), London

Date d'édition : 1997

Reliure : Softcover

Etat : Very Good-

Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket

Edition : First Edition.

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Synopsis :

This book focuses on the significance of the body in contemporary feminist scholarship. The contributors offer a critical appraisal of the recent `body revival', drawing upon insights from contemporary feminist theories on gender and power to explore the subject. The book sets an agenda not only for research about the body but for an embodied perspective on the body as well.

À propos de l?auteur:

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

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