Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iv
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Foreword viii
5. Contributors x
6. The Anatomy of Gender: Dissecting Sexual Difference in the Body of Knowledge 1
7. Representation of the Female Body
8. Pornography or Misogyny? 37
9. On the Way to Female Imagery of God 53
10. The Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Art 65
11. Representation of Women in Chinese Fiction: The Female Body Subdued, Re(s)trained, (Dis)possessed 81
12. I-less and Gaga in the West Edmonton Mall: Towards a Pedestrian Feminist Reading 97
13. Repression of the Female Body
14. A Suitable Case for Treatment? Premenstrual Syndrome and the Medicalization of Women’s Bodies 119
15. Sexual Difference and the Law: Premenstrual Syndrome as Legal Defense 130
16. Assessing Reproductive Wrongs: A Feminist Social Work Perspective 147
17. Risky Business: Medical Definitions of Pregnancy 161
18. Images of Women in Canadian Social Policy: Em-bodying Patriarchy 175
19. Reclaiming the Female Body
20. Representation and Resistance: Feminist Struggles against Pornography 191
21. Knowing Ourselves as Women 209
22. Unhiding the Hidden: Writing during the Quiet Revolution 222
23. Black Women’s Reality and Feminism: An Exploration of Race and Gender 232
24. Self-Representation and Fictionalysis 243
25. Moving Parts 248
26. Habeas Corpus: Anatomy/Autonomy in Relation to Narcissism 259