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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782625703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ottawa : , : Carleton University Press, , 1992
• ISBN: 0-7735-7375-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Carleton women's experience series
• Altri autori (Persone): CurrieDawn <1948->; RaoulValerie <1941->
• Disciplina: 305.42
• Soggetti: Feminism; Sex role; Women - Social conditions; Sex discrimination against women
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• 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""
• Sommario/riassunto: Throughout the ages, the female body has been enshrined as an aesthetic object, associated with nature, sin and danger. This collection of essays covers a range of topics related to the female body.