Feminist Theory and the Body : : A Reader / / Janet Price, Margrit Shildrick.

This new Reader gives students an ideal overview of the historical developments and current controversies within this dynamic area of feminist theory. Wide-ranging articles stress the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary feminist thought and include 'Sexy Bodies' and 'Performing B...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgements
  • Openings on the Body: A Critical Introduction
  • Section 1: Woman as Body?
  • Introduction
  • 1.1 'Theories of Gender and Race'
  • 1.2 'Woman as Body: Ancient and Contemporary Views'
  • 1.3 'Bodies and Biology'
  • 1.4 'My Body, Myself: How Does a Black Woman Do Sociology?'
  • 1.5 'Our Bodies, Ourselves: Why We Should Add Old Fashioned Empirical Phenomenology to the New Theories of the Body'
  • Section 2: Sexy Bodies
  • Introduction
  • 2.1 'When Our Lips Speak Together'
  • 2.2 'The Nose' and 'Taste'
  • 2.3 'Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality: The Problematic of Silence'
  • 2.4 'Body Matters: Cultural Inscriptions'
  • 2.5 'Lesbian Bodies: Tribades, Tomboys and Tarts'
  • 2.6 'F2M: The Making of Female Masculinity'
  • 2.7 'NO BODY is "Doing It": Cybersexuality'
  • 2.8 'The Hot Rod Bodies of Cybersex'
  • Section 3: Bodies in Science and Biomedicine
  • Introduction
  • 3.1 'A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer'
  • 3.2 'Breast Cancer: An Adventure in Applied Deconstruction'
  • 3.3. 'Natural Facts: A Historical Perspective on Science and Sexuality'
  • 3.4 'Menopause: The Storm before the Calm'
  • 3.5 'The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles'
  • 3.6 'Disciplining Mothers: Feminism and the New Reproductive Technologies'
  • 3.7 'The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Determinations of Self in Immune System Discourse'
  • Section 4: After the Binary
  • Introduction
  • 4.1 'Bodies, Identities, Feminisms'
  • 4.2 'Power, Bodies and Difference'
  • 4.3 'Bodies that Matter'
  • 4.4 'Feminism, Foucault and the Politics of the Body'
  • 4.5 'Write Your Body' and 'The Body in Theory'
  • 4.6 'Psychoanalysis and the Body'
  • Section 5: Alter/ed Bodies
  • Introduction
  • 5.1 'Forms of Technological Embodiment: Reading the Body in Contemporary Culture'
  • 5.2 'Signs of Wonder and Traces of Doubt: On Teratology and Embodied Differences'
  • 5.3 'Interview from Warrior Marks'
  • 5.4 'The Trials of the Black African Woman'
  • 5.5 'The Economy of Violence: Black Bodies and the Unspeakable Terror'
  • 5.6 'Feminism, Disability, and Transcendence of the Body'
  • Section 6: BodySpaceMatter
  • Introduction
  • 6.1 'Her Body/Her Boundaries'
  • 6.2 'Women and Everyday Spaces'
  • 6.3 'Surviving Rape: A Morning/Mourning Ritual'
  • 6.4 'Bodies-Cities'
  • 6.5 'Mapping the Colonial Body: Sexual Economies and the State in Colonial India'
  • 6.6 'Woman, Nation and Narration in Midnight's Children'
  • Section 7: Performing the Body
  • Introduction
  • 7.1 'Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions'
  • 7.2 'The Guilty Pleasures of Female Theatrical Cross- Dressing'
  • 7.3 'Breaking the Boundaries of the Broken Body'
  • 7.4 'Feminine Charms and Outrageous Arms'
  • 7.5 '"My Body is my Art": Cosmetic Surgery as Feminist Utopia?'
  • 7.6 '"Freud's Fetishism" and the Lesbian Dildo Debates'
  • Copyright Acknowledgements
  • Subject Index
  • Name Index