The anatomy of gender : women's struggle for the body / / edited by Dawn H. Currie & Valerie Raoul
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| Titolo: |
The anatomy of gender : women's struggle for the body / / edited by Dawn H. Currie & Valerie Raoul
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| Pubblicazione: | Ottawa : , : Carleton University Press, , 1992 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 305.42 |
| Soggetto topico: | Feminism |
| Sex role | |
| Women - Social conditions | |
| Sex discrimination against women | |
| Altri autori: |
CurrieDawn <1948->
RaoulValerie <1941->
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The anatomy of gender |
| ISBN: | 0-7735-7375-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910782625703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Carleton women's experience series ; ; 3.