In many fields, the body is the topic generating exciting new research and interdisciplinary inquiry. Feminist theorists, in particular, have focused on the female body as the site where representations of difference and identity are inscribed. Drawn from a broad range of disciplines, Writing on the Body explores the tensions between women's lived bodily experiences and the cultural meanings inscribed on the female body. The volume includes classic and contemporary essays on rape, pornography, eroticism, anorexia, body building, menstruation, and maternity, and challenges racial, class and sexual categories. Complemented by the editors' introduction, Writing on the Body is a comprehensive sourcebook on the major theoretical positions and critical trends surrounding the female body.
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Katies Conboy is associate professor of English at Stonehill College.
Nadia Medina is lecturer in the department of English and director of the Academic Resource Center at Tufts University.
Sarah Stanbury is associate professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross.
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A great feminist reader,
This review is from: Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory (Paperback)
This is a wonderful collection of essays for anyone looking for an introduction to feminist theory, or simply for new ways to perceive and analyze the body. The bitesize samples of Judith Butler, Catharine MacKinnon, Audre Lorde, and bell hooks challenge the reader to confront contemporary issues such as rape, gender, and representations of women of color in ways that are radically different from mainstream thought.
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It is difficult to see how our current scientific ideas are infused by cultural assumptions; it is easier to see how scientific ideas from the past, ideas that now seem wrong or too simple, might have been affected by cultural ideas of an earlier time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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It is difficult to see how our current scientific ideas are infused by cultural assumptions; it is easier to see how scientific ideas from the past, ideas that now seem wrong or too simple, might have been affected by cultural ideas of an earlier time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gender dysphoria syndrome, transsexual body, black female sexuality, feminist critical practice, black female bodies, constituting acts, queer desire, god trick, black female body, gender constitution, sexual agency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Annie Sprinkle, New York, Bertha Pappenheim, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray, Donna Haraway, Human Physiology, Judith Butler, Cornell University Press, Oxford University Press, Indiana University Press, Linda Williams, Sigmund Freud, Julia Kristeva, Laura Mulvey, Medical Metaphors, University of Chicago Press, San Francisco, Simone de Beauvoir, Susan Bordo, United States, Annette Kuhn, Bev Francis, Lili Elbe, Mary Ann Doane New!
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- Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey Dr. on 6 pages
- Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Tenth Anniversary Edition by Susan Bordo on 5 pages
- Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler on 4 pages
- Feminism Without Women: Culture and Criticism in a "Postfeminist" Age by Tania Modleski on 4 pages
- This Sex Which is Not One by Luce Irigaray on 4 pages
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- The Laborer's Two Bodies: Labor and the "Work" of the Text in Medieval Britain, 1350-1500 (New Middle Ages) by Kellie Robertson on 4 pages
- Birthing Autonomy: Women's Experiences of Planning Home Births by Nadine Edwards in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Women's Aggressive Fantasies: A Post-Jungian Exploration of Self- by Sue Austin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Theorizing Gender: An Introduction by Rachel Alsop in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Toni Morrison: PLAYING WITH DIFFERENCE by Lucille P. Fultz in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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