Embodied Practices

Feminist Perspectives on the Body
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-7619-5363-0
Verlag: Sage Publications UK

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 348 g

Reihe: European Journal of Women's Studies Readers series

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 insights from contemporary feminist theories on gender and power to explore the subject. The book sets an agenda not only for research about the body but for an embodied perspective on the body as well.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Kathy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Embody-ing Theory - Kathy Davis
Beyond Modernist and Postmodernist Readings of the Body
PART ONE: THE FEMALE BODY: DIFFERENCE AND POWER
Reading the Body - Anne Woollett and Harriette Marshall
Young Women's Accounts of Their Bodies in Relation to Autonomy and Independence
Performing the Body, Creating Culture - Anna Aalten
Female Bodies and Brittle Bones - Ineke Klinge
Medical Interventions in Osteoporosis
The Body of Gender Difference - Gesa Lindemann
Victims or Offenders? `Other' Women in French Sexual Politics - Rachel A Bloul
Sex as Usual - Dubravka Zarkov
Body Politics and the Media War in Serbia
PART TWO: FEMINIST INTERVENTIONS IN BODY/POLITICS
Erotic Bodies - Gon Buurman
Images of the Disabled
Women's Public Toilets - Julia Edwards and Linda McKie
A Serious Issue for the Body Politic
Chic Outrage and Body Politics - Joanne Finkelstein
`My Body Is My Art' - Kathy Davis
Cosmetic Surgery as Feminist Utopia?
The Researching Body - Monica Rudberg
The Epistemophilic Project

Über Autor(innen)

Davis, Kathy
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