Feminist Perspectives On The Body

Author : Barbara Brook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317880226

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Feminist Perspectives on the Body by Barbara Brook Pdf

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 : Kathy Davis
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015041319677

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Embodied Practices by Kathy Davis Pdf

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

Author : Donna Dickenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139462938

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Property in the Body by Donna Dickenson Pdf

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 : Janet Price,Margrit Shildrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 755 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351567091

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Feminist Theory and the Body by Janet Price,Margrit Shildrick Pdf

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 : Janet Price,Margrit Shildrick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0415925665

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Feminist Theory and the Body by Janet Price,Margrit Shildrick Pdf

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

Author : Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 791 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780679724513

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Le Deuxième Sexe by Simone de Beauvoir Pdf

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

Author : Judith Lorber,Lisa Jean Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122850394

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Gendered Bodies by Judith Lorber,Lisa Jean Moore Pdf

For centuries the biological sciences have dissected, measured, and probed the human body as a product of nature. But from a feminist perspective, the human body is a social production. Human bodies are shaped and controlled by the norms and expectations of gendered social orders, intersected by racial, class, religious, and age norms and expectations. The result is a gendered body produced for a gendered social world. In this concise text with readings, designed for undergraduate students, Lorber and Moore present feminist contributions to social and cultural studies of the human body, showing the construction of gendered bodies in different contexts. The authors argue that the ideology of the perfect body is a powerful means of social control for girls and boys as well as women and men. The authors show how children's bodies are gendered through games and sports - and shaped and modified throughout adulthood to meet social expectations. Each chapter includes a list of key concepts, three readings, recommended books and articles, and Internet sources. For the instructor, the book includes class exercises and a list of films with somatic themes.

Author : Joan C. Chrisler,Ingrid Johnston-Robledo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Body image in women
ISBN : 1433827417

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Woman's Embodied Self by Joan C. Chrisler,Ingrid Johnston-Robledo Pdf

Using various psychological theories, this book examines women's complex relations with their bodies and how attitudes toward the body affect women's sense of self. It also suggests ways to achieve a positive embodied self

Author : Katie Conboy,Nadia Medina,Sarah Stanbury
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231105452

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Writing on the Body by Katie Conboy,Nadia Medina,Sarah Stanbury Pdf

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 : Patricia Fallon,Melanie A. Katzman,Susan C. Wooley
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1572301821

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Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders by Patricia Fallon,Melanie A. Katzman,Susan C. Wooley Pdf

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 : Clara Fischer,Luna Dolezal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319723532

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New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment by Clara Fischer,Luna Dolezal Pdf

Despite several decades of feminist activism and scholarship, women’s bodies continue to be sites of control and contention both materially and symbolically. Issues such as reproductive technologies, sexual violence, objectification, motherhood, and sex trafficking, among others, constitute ongoing, pressing concerns for women’s bodies in our contemporary milieu, arguably exacerbated in a neoliberal world where bodies are instrumentalized as sites of human capital. This book engages with these themes by building on the strong tradition of feminist thought focused on women’s bodies, and by making novel contributions that reflect feminists’ concerns—both theoretically and empirically—about gender and embodiment in the present context and beyond. The collection brings together essays from a variety of feminist scholars who deploy diverse theoretical approaches, including phenomenology, pragmatism, and new materialisms, in order to examine philosophically the question of the current status of gendered bodies through cutting-edge feminist theory.

Author : L. Frost
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780333985410

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Young Women and the Body by L. Frost Pdf

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.

Author : Lorraine Code,Sheila Mullett,Christine Overall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X001363656

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Feminist Perspectives by Lorraine Code,Sheila Mullett,Christine Overall Pdf

Author : Sue Wilkinson,Celia Kitzinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781135340063

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Women And Health by Sue Wilkinson,Celia Kitzinger Pdf

this comprehensive volume provides a broad sample of contemporary British feminist work on women and health. It spans the disciplines of psychology, sociology, social policy, social anthropology and economics, and demonstrates the development of feminist theorizing and activism in these areas over the past decade. Topics include: global and national politics of women's health; the 'psychologization' of health: sexuality and AIDS; body image and pregnancy; reproductive technology; substance abuse; breast cancer; and the long-term health problems of women. Calling for a greater understanding of women and health, the contributors acknowledge the gender-based inequities of women's experiences and address the need for social and political change in order to improve the health and health care of women across the lifespan.

Author : Alison M. Jaggar,Susan Bordo
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0813513790

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Gender/body/knowledge by Alison M. Jaggar,Susan Bordo Pdf

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.