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Inbunden, Engelska, 1997

Embodied Practices

Feminist Perspectives on the Body

Av Kathy Davis

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This book focuses on the significance of the body in contemporary feminist scholarship. In recent years, the body has become a `hot item′ in both contemporary social theory and research. This renewed interest has received a mixed reaction from feminists. While the body may be back, the `new′ body theory often proves to be just as disembodied as it ever was. The body revival seems to be less an attempt to re-embody masculinist science than just another expression of the same condition which evoked the feminist critique in the first place: a flight from femininity and everything that is associated with it in western culture. Embodied Practices offers a critical appraisal of the recent `body revival′, drawing upon insights from contemporary feminist theories on gender and power to explore the subject. The book sets an agenda not only for research about the body but for an embodied perspective on the body as well.
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Kathy Davis is Associate Professor of Women′s Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Utrecht in The Netherlands. She is author of Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery (1995) and Power Under the Microscope: Toward a Grounded Theory of Gender Relations in Medical Encounters (1988).CONTRIBUTORSAnna Aalten University of AmsterdamRachel AD Bloul ANU CanberraGon Buurman AmsterdamJulia Edwards University of GlamorganJoanne Finkelstein Monash UniversityIneke Klinge University of UtrechtGesa Lindeman University of Frankfurt Harriette Marshall Staffordshire University Stoke on TrentLinda McKie University of AberdeenMonica Rudberg University of OsloAnne Woollett University of East London, StratfordDubravka Zarkov Nijmegen

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`These essays are likely to be welcomed by those coming from a women′s studies perspective....In addition, they open up possibilities for articulating an embodied theory of the body, which will be of interest to students of sociology or cultural theory and feminists alike′ - Times Higher Education Supplement`As the editor of this exciting collection notes, while bodies are "in" in social and cultural theory, there has been a surprising neglect of the gendered nature of embodiment. This book presents fascinating and original accounts of the nature and meaning of female bodies over a range of cultural and political contexts and practices. The book′s strengths lie in its successful melding of contemporary theory with empirical research and grounded examples of women′s embodiment′ - Deborah Lupton, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst`An excellent collection on the body from a specifically feminist perspective... a solid empirical work imbued with cutting-edge theorizing. Political implications for women are always foregrounded′ - Judith Lorber

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