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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454573203321

Titolo

The anatomy of gender [[electronic resource] ] : women's struggle for the body / / edited by Dawn H. Currie & Valerie Raoul

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ottawa, : Carleton University Press, 1992

ISBN

0-7735-7375-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Carleton women's experience series ; ; 3

Altri autori (Persone)

CurrieDawn <1948->

RaoulValerie <1941->

Disciplina

305.42

Soggetti

Feminism

Sex role

Women - Social conditions

Sex discrimination against women

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Foreword""; ""Contributors""; ""The Anatomy of Gender: Dissecting Sexual Difference in the Body of Knowledge""; ""Section One: Representation of the Female Body""; ""Pornography or Misogyny? Fear and the Absurd""; ""On the Way to Female Imagery of God""; ""The Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Art""; ""Representation of Women in Chinese Fiction: The Female Body Subdued, Re(s)trained, (Dis)possessed""; ""I-less and Gaga in the West Edmonton Mall: Towards a Pedestrian Feminist Reading""; ""Section Two: Repression of the Female Body""

""A Suitable Case for Treatment? Premenstrual Syndrome and the Medicalization of Women�s Bodies""""Sexual Difference and the Law: Premenstrual Syndrome as Legal Defense""; ""Assessing Reproductive Wrongs: A Feminist Social Work Perspective""; ""Risky Business: Medical Definitions of Pregnancy""; ""Images of Women in Canadian Social Policy: Em-bodying Patriarchy""; ""Section Three: Reclaiming the Female Body""; ""Representation and Resistance: Feminist Struggles against Pornography""; ""Knowing Ourselves as Women""; ""Unhiding the Hidden: Writing during the Quiet Revolution""



""Black Women�s Reality and Feminism: An Exploration of Race and Gender""""Self-Representation and Fictionalysis""; ""moving parts""; ""Habeas Corpus: Anatomy/Autonomy in Relation to Narcissism""