1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003518599707536

Titolo

Microtubules / edited by K. Roberts, J. Hyams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Academic Press, 1979

ISBN

0125907508

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 595 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Roberts, Keith

Hyams, Jeremy S.

Disciplina

571.654

Soggetti

Microtubules

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index

Bibliography: p. [531]-573



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782625703321

Titolo

The anatomy of gender : 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 (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.