Embodied Practices Feminist Perspectives On The Body

Davis, Kathy (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0761953639 / ISBN 13: 9780761953630

Published by Sage Publications (1997), London, 1997

About this Item

No signatures. Some rubbing to ends of spine. Bookseller's price sticker to rear wrapper. ; ix, [1], 210 pages. Illsutrated card wrappers. Illustrated. Page dimensions: 233mm x 145mm. Selected contents: Embody-ing Theory: Beyond Modernist and Postmodernist Readings of the Body; Reading The Body: Young Woman's Accounts of their Bodies in Relation to Autonomy and Independence; Performing The Body, Creating Culture; Female Bodies and Brittle Bones: Medical Interventions in Osteoporosis; The body of Gender Difference; Sex As Usual: Body Politics and the Media War in Serbia; Erotic Bodies: Images of the Disabled. ; 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Embodied Practices Feminist Perspectives On The Body
• Publisher: Sage Publications (1997), London
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761953639
• ISBN 13: 9780761953630
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good-
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

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Synopsis

This book focuses on the significance of the body in contemporary feminist scholarship. Whether the body is treated as biological bedrock or subversive metaphor, it is implicated in the cultural and historical construction of sexual difference as well as asymmetrical power relations. The contributors to this volume examine the role of the body as socially shaped and historically colonized territory and as the focus of individual womenĘs struggles for autonomy and self-determination. They also analyze its centrality to the feminist critique of male-stream science as dualistic, distanced, and decontextualized. While the body has become a "hot item" in contemporary social theory and research, the renewed interest has received a mixed reaction from feminists. The body may be back, but 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 that evoked the feminist critique in the first place: a flight from femininity and everything that is associated with it in Western culture. Drawing on insights from contemporary feminist theories of gender and power, this book offers a timely critical appraisal of the recent "body revival." Embodied Practices not only sets an agenda for research about the body, but for an embodied perspective on the body as well. It will be a valuable and thought-provoking resource for students of womenĘs studies, social theory, cultural studies, and medical sociology.

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