Embodied Practices: Feminist Perspectives on the Body (European Journal of Women′s Studies Readers series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761953639 ISBN 13: 9780761953630

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

Kathy Davis is Associate Professor of Women′s Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Utrecht in The Netherlands. She is author of Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery (1995) and Power Under the Microscope: Toward a Grounded Theory of Gender Relations in Medical Encounters (1988).

CONTRIBUTORS

Anna Aalten University of Amsterdam

Rachel AD Bloul ANU Canberra

Gon Buurman Amsterdam

Julia Edwards University of Glamorgan

Joanne Finkelstein Monash University

Ineke Klinge University of Utrecht

Gesa Lindeman University of Frankfurt

Harriette Marshall Staffordshire University Stoke on Trent

Linda McKie University of Aberdeen

Monica Rudberg University of Oslo

Anne Woollett University of East London, Stratford

Dubravka Zarkov Nijmegen

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761953639
• ISBN 13: 9780761953630
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Davis Kathy