Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader

Janet Price; Margrit Shildrick

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Feminist Theory and the Body

A Reader

Janet Price and Margrit Shildrick

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1999

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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

Topics

Social Sciences Sociology Sociology, other

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Openings on the Body: A Critical Introduction Margrit Shildrick and Janet Price Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Section 1: Woman as Body?
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
1.1 ‘Theories of Gender and Race’ Londa Schiebinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
1.2 ‘Woman as Body: Ancient and Contemporary Views’ Elizabeth V. Spelman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
1.3 ‘Bodies and Biology’ Lynda Birke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
1.4 ‘My Body, Myself: How Does a Black Woman Do Sociology?’ Felly Nkweto Simmonds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
1.5 ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves: Why We Should Add Old Fashioned Empirical Phenomenology to the New Theories of the Body’ Helen Marshall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Section 2: Sexy Bodies
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
2.1 ‘When Our Lips Speak Together’ Luce Irigaray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
2.2 ‘The Nose’ and ‘Taste’ Jeanette Winterson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
2.3 ‘Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality: The Problematic of Silence’ Evelynn M. Hammonds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
2.4 ‘Body Matters: Cultural Inscriptions’ Lynne Segal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
2.5 ‘Lesbian Bodies: Tribades, Tomboys and Tarts’ Barbara Creed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
2.6 ‘F2M: The Making of Female Masculinity’ Judith Halberstam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
2.7 ‘NO BODY is “Doing It”: Cybersexuality’ Juniper Wiley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
2.8 ‘The Hot Rod Bodies of Cybersex’ Sue-Ellen Case Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Section 3: Bodies in Science and Biomedicine
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
3.1 ‘A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer’ Audre Lorde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
3.2 ‘Breast Cancer: An Adventure in Applied Deconstruction’ Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
3.3. ‘Natural Facts: A Historical Perspective on Science and Sexuality’ Ludmilla Jordanova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
3.4 ‘Menopause: The Storm before the Calm’ Anne Fausto-Sterling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
3.5 ‘The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles’ Emily Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
3.6 ‘Disciplining Mothers: Feminism and the New Reproductive Technologies’ Jana Sawicki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
3.7 ‘The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Determinations of Self in Immune System Discourse’ Donna Haraway Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Section 4: After the Binary
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
4.1 ‘Bodies, Identities, Feminisms’ Denise Riley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
4.2 ‘Power, Bodies and Difference’ Moira Gatens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
4.3 ‘Bodies that Matter’ Judith Butler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
4.4 ‘Feminism, Foucault and the Politics of the Body’ Susan Bordo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
4.5 ‘Write Your Body’ and ‘The Body in Theory’ Trinh T. Minh-ha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
4.6 ‘Psychoanalysis and the Body’ Elizabeth Grosz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Section 5: Alter/ed Bodies
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
5.1 ‘Forms of Technological Embodiment: Reading the Body in Contemporary Culture’ Anne Balsamo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
5.2 ‘Signs of Wonder and Traces of Doubt: On Teratology and Embodied Differences’ Rosi Braidotti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290
5.3 ‘Interview from Warrior Marks’ Pratibha Parmar and Alice Walker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
5.4 ‘The Trials of the Black African Woman’ Awa Thiam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
5.5 ‘The Economy of Violence: Black Bodies and the Unspeakable Terror’ Bibi Bakare-Yusuf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
5.6 ‘Feminism, Disability, and Transcendence of the Body’ Susan Wendell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324
Section 6: BodySpaceMatter
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
6.1 ‘Her Body/Her Boundaries’ Christine Battersby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
6.2 ‘Women and Everyday Spaces’ Gillian Rose Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
6.3 ‘Surviving Rape: A Morning/Mourning Ritual’ Andrea Benton Rushing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
6.4 ‘Bodies-Cities’ Elizabeth Grosz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
6.5 ‘Mapping the Colonial Body: Sexual Economies and the State in Colonial India’ Janet Price and Margrit Shildrick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	388
6.6 ‘Woman, Nation and Narration in Midnight's Children' Nalini Natarajan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
Section 7: Performing the Body
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
7.1 ‘Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions’ Judith Butler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	416
7.2 ‘The Guilty Pleasures of Female Theatrical Cross- Dressing’ Kristina Straub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
7.3 ‘Breaking the Boundaries of the Broken Body’ Margrit Shildrick and Janet Price Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	432
7.4 ‘Feminine Charms and Outrageous Arms’ Fen Coles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	445
7.5 ‘“My Body is my Art”: Cosmetic Surgery as Feminist Utopia?’ Kathy Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	454
7.6 ‘“Freud’s Fetishism” and the Lesbian Dildo Debates’ Heather Findlay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	466
Copyright Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	477
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481
Name Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485

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January 31, 2022

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9781474471770

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400

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474471770

eBook ISBN: 9781474471770

Keywords for this book

Gender Studies

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College/higher education;

Feminist Theory and the Body

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