Feminist Theory and the Body: A ReaderJanet Price, Margrit Shildrick Price and Shildrick bring together over 40 important feminist thinkers to discuss key arguments and issues concerning the body. It includes articles on race, cyberspace, theatre, classics, transsexuality, reproductive technologies, illness, rape, plastic surgery, and disabilities. The articles cover many different areas with a stress on the interdisciplinary links of contemporary feminist thought with philosophy, cultural studies, sociology and queer studies. What unites the various approaches represented is the understanding of the body as a site of contestation, the place where feminism can engage directly with the devaluation of women and move on to mobilize strategies of resistance. |
Contents
Introduction | 17 |
Ancient and Contemporary Views | 32 |
Bodies and Biology | 42 |
How Does a Black Woman | 50 |
Why We Should Add | 64 |
Introduction | 79 |
The Nose and Taste | 91 |
Cultural Inscriptions | 105 |
Write Your Body and The Body in Theory | 258 |
Psychoanalysis and the Body | 267 |
Introduction | 275 |
Interview from Warrior Marks | 302 |
The Trials of the Black African Woman | 309 |
Feminism Disability and Transcendence | 324 |
Introduction | 337 |
Women and Everyday Spaces | 359 |
Tribades Tomboys and Tarts | 111 |
The Making of Female Masculinity | 125 |
Cybersexuality | 134 |
The Hot Rod Bodies of Cybersex | 140 |
Living with Cancer | 149 |
A Historical Perspective | 157 |
The Storm before the Calm | 169 |
How Science | 179 |
Feminism and the | 190 |
Introduction | 217 |
Power Bodies and Difference | 227 |
Bodies that Matter | 235 |
Feminism Foucault and the Politics of the Body | 246 |
A MorningMourning Ritual | 371 |
BodiesCities | 381 |
Sexual Economies | 388 |
Woman Nation and Narration in Midnights | 399 |
Introduction | 413 |
The Guilty Pleasures of Female Theatrical Cross | 423 |
Breaking the Boundaries of the Broken Body | 432 |
Feminine Charms and Outrageous Arms | 445 |
Cosmetic Surgery as Feminist | 454 |
Freuds Fetishism and the Lesbian Dildo Debates | 466 |
Copyright Acknowledgements | 477 |
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References to this book
Prostitution and Feminism: Towards a Politics of Feeling Maggie O'Neill No preview available - 2000 |