[PDF] Feminist Perspectives On The Body eBook

Author : Barbara Brook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317880226

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Feminist Perspectives on the Body provides an accessible introduction to this extremely popular new area and is aimed at students from a variety of disciplines who are interested in gaining an understanding of the key issues involved. The author explores many important topics including: the Western world's construction of the body as a theoretical, philosophical and political concept; the body and reproduction; medicalisation; cosmetic surgery and eating disorders; the body in performance; the private and the public body; working bodies and new ways of thinking about the body.

Author : Katie Conboy
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231105453

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This work comprises a collection of influential readings in feminist theory. It is divided into four sections: "Reading the Body"; "Bodies in Production"; "The Body Speaks"; and "Body on Stage".

Author : Janet Price
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 48,29 MB
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351567098

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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.

Author : Donna Dickenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 21,61 MB
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 1139462938

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New developments in biotechnology radically alter our relationship with our bodies. Body tissues can now be used for commercial purposes, while external objects, such as pacemakers, can become part of the body. Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives transcends the everyday responses to such developments, suggesting that what we most fear is the feminisation of the body. We fear our bodies are becoming objects of property, turning us into things rather than persons. This book evaluates how well-grounded this fear is, and suggests innovative models of regulating what has been called 'the new Gold Rush' in human tissue. This is an up-to-date and wide-ranging synthesis of market developments in body tissue, bringing together bioethics, feminist theory and lessons from countries that have resisted commercialisation of the body, in a theoretically sophisticated and practically significant approach.

Author : Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 791 pages
File Size : 19,28 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0679724516

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The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.

Author : Patricia Fallon
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 17,25 MB
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781572301825

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Advancing the literature on a critical topic, this important new work illuminates the relationship between the anguish of eating disorder sufferers and the problems of ordinary women. The book covers a wide variety of issues - from ways in which gender may predispose women to eating disorders to the widespread cultural concerns these problems symbolize. Throughout, the psychology of women is reflected in the concepts and methods described; there is an explicit commitment to political and social equality for women; and therapy is reevaluated based on an understanding of the needs of women patients and the potentially differing contributions of male and female therapists. Providing valuable insights into the critical problem of eating disorders, this book is essential reading for clinicians and researchers alike. Also, by examining many of the ways in which women are affected by and respond to society's gender politics, the book may be used as a text in women's studies courses.

Author : Londa L. Schiebinger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0198731914

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This collection of classic essays in feminist body studies investigates the history of the image of the female body; from the medical 'discovery' of the clitoris, to the 'body politic' of Queen Elizabeth I, to women deprecated as 'Hottentot Venuses' in the nineteenth century. The text look atthe way in which coverings bear cultural meaning: clothing reform during the French Revolution, Islamic veiling, and the invention of the top hat; as well as the embodiment of cherished cultural values in social icons such as the Statue of Liberty or the Barbie doll. By considering culture as itdefines not only women but also men, this volume offers both the student and the general reader an insight into the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural study involved in feminist body studies.

Author : Janet Price
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780415925662

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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Alison M. Jaggar
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 16,10 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813513799

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The essays in this interdisciplinary collection share the conviction that modern western paradigms of knowledge and reality are gender-biased. Some contributors challenge and revise western conceptions of the body as the domain of the biological and 'natural, ' the enemy of reason, typically associated with women.

Author : L. Frost
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 2001-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0333985419

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Young Women and the Body sets out to examine why the current generation of young women seem to be deeply unhappy with their own bodies. Dieting and disguising are commonplace, and inflicting serious harm by no means rare in fourteen to eighteen year olds. Despite prophesies to the contrary boys and adults are suffering far less. Drawing on feminist social constructionist perspectives the book seeks to examine this epidemic of body-hatred.