Writing on the body : female embodiment and feminist theory
Exploring the tensions between women's lived bodily experiences and the cultural meanings inscribed on the female body, this volume--complete with editors' introduction--includes classic and contemporary essays on rape, pornography, eroticism, anorexia, body building, menstruation, and maternity, and challenges racial, class, and sexual categories.
Print Book, English, [post 2006], 1997
Columbia University Press, New York, [post 2006], 1997
X, [4], 430 s. : il. ; 23 cm.
9780231105453, 0231105452
1014043304
Acknowledgments Introduction Katie Conboy, Nadia Medina, Sarah Stanbury Part 1 Reading the Body 1 Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Menstruation and Menopause, Emily Martin 2 Rape: On Coercion and Consent, Catharine A. MacKinnon 3 Mothers, Monsters, and Machines, Rosi Braidotti 4 Corporeal Representation in / and the Body Politic, Moira Gatens 5 The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity, Susan Bordo Part 2 Bodies in Production 6 Selling Hot Pussy: Representations of Black Female Sexuality in the Cutural Marketplace, Bell Hooks 7 Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power, Sandra Lee Bartky 8 On Being the Object of Property, Patricia J. Williams 9 Film and the Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator, Mary Ann Doane 10 The Body and Cinema: Some Problems for Feminism, Annette Kuhn 11 Cinema and the Dark Continent: Race and Gender in Popular Film, Tania Modleski Part 3 The Body Speaks 12 Ain't I a Woman? Sojourner Truth 13 La consciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness, Gloria Anzaldua 14 This Sex which is Not One, Luce Irigaray 15 Hysteria, Psuchoanalysis, and Feminism: The Case of Anna O., Dianne Hunter 16 Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power 17 The Persistence of Vision, Donna Haraway 18 Carnal Acts, Nancy Mairs Part 4 Body on Stage 19 One is Not Born a Woman, Monique Wittig 20 Female Grotesques: Carnival and Theory, Mary Russo 21 THe Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto, Sandy Stone 22 A Provoking Agent: The Pornography and Performance Art of Annie Sprinkle, Linda Williams 23 Tracking the Vampire, Sue-Ellen Case 24 Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory, Judith Butler Suggestions for Further Reading About the Contributors
Na dokumencie data wydania 1997, rok wyd. [post 2006] na podst. ISBN-13