Feminist Theory and the Body : A Reader

by Price, Janet

• ISBN13: 9780748610891
• ISBN10: 0748610898
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-28
• Publisher: Gardners Books

Summary

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 Bodies'.Key Features*Comprehensive coverage of differing feminist approaches to the body*General critical introduction puts the issues in context*Wide range of contributors, including Donna Haraway and Elizabeth Grosz

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Openings on the Body: A Critical Introduction	p. 1
Woman as Body?	p. 15
'Theories of Gender and Race'	p. 21
'Woman as Body: Ancient and Contemporary Views'	p. 32
'Bodies and Biology'	p. 42
'My Body, Myself: How Does a Black Woman Do Sociology?'	p. 50
'Our Bodies, Ourselves: Why We Should Add Old Fashioned Empirical Phenomenology to the New Theories of the Body'	p. 64
Sexy Bodies	p. 77
'When Our Lips Speak Together'	p. 82
'The Nose' and 'Taste'	p. 91
'Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality: The Problematic of Silence'	p. 93
'Body Matters: Cultural Inscriptions'	p. 105
'Lesbian Bodies: Tribades, Tomboys and Tarts'	p. 111
'F2M: The Making of Female Masculinity'	p. 125
'NO BODY is "Doing It": Cybersexuality'	p. 134
'The Hot Rod Bodies of Cybersex'	p. 140
Bodies in Science and Biomedicine	p. 143
'A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer'	p. 149
'Breast Cancer: An Adventure in Applied Deconstruction'	p. 153
'Natural Facts: A Historical Perspective on Science and Sexuality'	p. 157
'Menopause: The Storm before the Calm'	p. 169
'The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles'	p. 179
'Disciplining Mothers: Feminism and the New Reproductive Technologies'	p. 190
'The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Determinations of Self in Immune System Discourse'	p. 203
After the Binary	p. 215
'Bodies, Identities, Feminisms'	p. 220
'Power, Bodies and Difference'	p. 227
'Bodies that Matter'	p. 235
'Feminism, Foucault and the Politics of the Body'	p. 246
'Write Your Body' and 'The Body in Theory'	p. 258
'Psychoanalysis and the Body'	p. 267
Alter/ed Bodies	p. 273
'Forms of Technological Embodiment: Reading the Body in Contemporary Culture'	p. 278
'Signs of Wonder and Traces of Doubt: On Teratology and Embodied Differences'	p. 290
'Interview from Warrior Marks'	p. 302
'The Trials of the Black African Woman'	p. 309
'The Economy of Violence: Black Bodies and the Unspeakable Terror'	p. 311
'Feminism, Disability, and Transcendence of the Body'	p. 324
BodySpaceMatter	p. 335
'Her Body/Her Boundaries'	p. 341
'Women and Everyday Spaces'	p. 359
'Surviving Rape: A Morning/Mourning Ritual'	p. 371
'Bodies-Cities'	p. 381
'Mapping the Colonial Body: Sexual Economies and the State in Colonial India'	p. 388
'Woman, Nation and Narration in Midnight's Children'	p. 399
Performing the Body	p. 411
'Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions'	p. 416
'The Guilty Pleasures of Female Theatrical Cross-Dressing'	p. 423
'Breaking the Boundaries of the Broken Body'	p. 432
'Feminine Charms and Outrageous Arms'	p. 445
'"My Body is my Art": Cosmetic Surgery as Feminist Utopia?'	p. 454
'"Freud's Fetishism" and the Lesbian Dildo Debates'	p. 466
Copyright Acknowledgements	p. 477
Subject Index	p. 481
Name Index	p. 485
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