Feminist theory and the body : a reader /: a reader. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Janet Price and Margrit Shildrick.
• Other Names: Price, Janet; Shildrick, Margrit
• Contents: Openings on the body: a critical introduction / Margrit Shildrick with Janet Price -- Theories of gender and race / Londa Schiebinger -- Woman as body: ancient and contemporary views / Elizabeth V. Spelman -- Bodies and biology / Lynda Birke -- My body, myself: how does a black woman do sociology? / Felly Nkweto Simmonds -- Our bodies, ourselves: why we should add old fashioned empirical phenomenology to the new theories of the body / Helen Marshall -- When our lips speak together / Luce Irigaray -- The nose and Taste / Jeanette Winterson -- Toward a genealogy of black female sexuality: the problematic of silence / Evelynn M. Hammonds. Body matters: cultural inscriptions / Lynne Segal -- Lesbian bodies: tribades, tomboys and tarts / Barbara Creed -- F2M: the making of female masculinity / Judith Halberstam -- NO BODY is "doing it": cybersexuality / Juniper Wiley -- The hot rod bodies of cybersex / Sue-Ellen Case. A burst of light: living with cancer / Audre Lorde -- Breast cancer: an adventure in applied deconstruction / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Natural facts: a historical perspective on science and sexuality / Ludmilla Jordanova -- Menopause: the storm before the calm / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- The egg and the sperm: how science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles / Emily Martin -- Disciplining mothers: feminism and the new reproductive technologies / Jana Sawicki -- The biopolitics of postmodern bodies: determinations of self in immune system discourse / Donna Haraway -- Bodies, identities, feminisms / Denise Riley -- Power, bodies and difference / Moira Gatens -- Bodies that matter / Judith Butler -- Feminism, Foucault and the politics of the body / Susan Bordo -- Write your body and The body in theory / Trinh T. Minh-ha -- Psychoanalysis and the body / Elizabeth Grosz -- Forms of technological embodiment: reading the body in contemporary culture / Anne Balsamo -- Signs of wonder and traces of doubt: on teratology and embodied differences / Rosi Braidotti -- Interview from Warrior marks / Pratibha Parma and Alice Walker -- The trials of the Black African woman / Awa Thiam -- The economy of violence: black bodies and the unspeakable terror / Bibi Bakare-Yusuf -- Feminism, disability, and the transcendence of the body / Susan Wendell -- Her body/her boundaries / Christine Battersby -- Women and everyday spaces / Gillian Rose -- Surviving rape: a morning/mourning ritual / Andrea Benton Rushing -- Bodies--cities / Elizabeth Grosz. Mapping the colonial body: sexual economies and the state in Colonial India / Janet Price and Margrit Shildrick -- Woman, nation and narration in Midnight's children / Nalini Natarajan -- Bodily inscriptions, performative subversions / Judith Butler -- The guilty pleasures of female theatrical cross-dressing / Kristina Straub -- Breaking the boundaries of the broken body / Margrit Shildrick and Janet Price -- Feminine charms and outrageous arms / Fen Coles -- "My body is my art": cosmetic surgery as feminist utopia? / Kathy Davis -- "Freud's fetishism" and the lesbian Dildo debates / Heather Findlay.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (504 pages)
• Subjects: 305.42; Feminist theory; Feminism; Human body -- Social aspects; Human body -- Symbolic aspects; Féminisme -- Philosophie; Féminisme; Corps humain -- Aspect social; Corps humain -- Aspect symbolique; Feminism; Feminist theory; Human body -- Social aspects; Human body -- Symbolic aspects; Feministisk teori; Feminismus; Körper; Feminism; Human Body; Symbolism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351567091; 1351567098
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.