Feminist Perspectives on the Body

1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-582-35639-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 259 g

Reihe: Feminist Perspectives

Feminist Perspectives on the Body provides an accessible introduction to this extremely popular new area and is aimed at students from a variety of disciplines who are interested in gaining an understanding of the key issues involved. The author explores many important topics including: the Western world's construction of the body as a theoretical, philosophical and political concept; the body and reproduction; medicalisation; cosmetic surgery and eating disorders; the body in performance; the private and the public body; working bodies and new ways of thinking about the body.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brook, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. Reproductive Bodies
3. Disciplined Bodies
4. Sexy Bodies
5. Bodies Politic
6. Working Bodies
7. Body Technologies
8. Rethinking Bodies

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Brook