Feminism and the Biological BodyBiological bodies always seem to drop out of debates about the body and its importance in western culture. They are assumed to be fixed, their workings irrelevant to theory. This text argues that these views of biology do not serve feminist politics well. |
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Feminism and | 24 |
Reading the Inner Body | 45 |
Representing Inner Processes | 63 |
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