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Titolo: | The anatomy of gender : women's struggle for the body / / edited by Dawn H. Currie & Valerie Raoul |
Pubblicazione: | Ottawa, : Carleton University Press, 1992 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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-> |
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.: | 9910821668803321 |
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