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Author : Mary Jean Wallace Paxton
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780133140965
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Female Body in Control written by Mary Jean Wallace Paxton and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linda Gordon
Publisher : New York : Grossman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Woman's Body, Woman's Right written by Linda Gordon and published by New York : Grossman. This book was released on 1976 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1850, most contraceptive methods and abortion were illegal in America. But in the late 19th century, American women began demanding the right to prevent or terminate pregnancy. Gordon traces the story of this controversy, and includes new material on recent movements to outlaw abortion.
Author : Megan Moran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Sickness and Control written by Megan Moran and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Iris Marion Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199882983
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book On Female Body Experience written by Iris Marion Young and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-27 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written over a span of more than two decades, the essays by Iris Marion Young collected in this volume describe diverse aspects of women's lived body experience in modern Western societies. Drawing on the ideas of several twentieth century continental philosophers--including Simone de Beauvoir, Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty--Young constructs rigorous analytic categories for interpreting embodied subjectivity. The essays combine theoretical description of experience with normative evaluation of the unjust constraints on their freedom and opportunity that continue to burden many women. The lead essay rethinks the purpose of the category of "gender" for feminist theory, after important debates have questioned its usefulness. Other essays include reflection on the meaning of being at home and the need for privacy in old age residences as well as essays that analyze aspects of the experience of women and girls that have received little attention even in feminist theory--such as the sexuality of breasts, or menstruation as punctuation in a woman's life story. Young describes the phenomenology of moving in a pregnant body and the tactile pleasures of clothing. While academically rigorous, the essays are also written with engaging style, incorporating vivid imagery and autobiographical narrative. On Female Body Experience raises issues and takes positions that speak to scholars and students in philosophy, sociology, geography, medicine, nursing, and education.
Author : Linda Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Woman's Body, Woman's Right written by Linda Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics of reproduction : The prohibition on birth control -- The folklore of birth control -- The criminals -- Prudent sex: neo-Malthusianism and perfectionism. Toward women's power : Voluntary motherhood: the beginnings of the birth-control movement -- Social purity and eugenics -- Race suicide -- Continence or indulgence: the doctors and the "sexual revolution" -- Birth control and social revolution. From women's rights to family planning : The professionalization of birth control -- The Depression -- Planned parenthood -- A note on population control -- Reproductive rights in the 1970s: birth control in the era of the Women's Liberation Movement -- Birth control in the era of conservatism and runaway technology: the 1980s -- Sexuality, feminism, and birth control today
Author : Catherine Sian Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Control of the Female Body written by Catherine Sian Smith and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Hill
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525536035
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book This Is Your Brain on Birth Control written by Sarah Hill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening book that reveals crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control should know This groundbreaking book sheds light on how hormonal birth control affects women--and the world around them--in ways we are just now beginning to understand. By allowing women to control their fertility, the birth control pill has revolutionized women's lives. Women are going to college, graduating, and entering the workforce in greater numbers than ever before, and there's good reason to believe that the birth control pill has a lot to do with this. But there's a lot more to the pill than meets the eye. Although women go on the pill for a small handful of targeted effects (pregnancy prevention and clearer skin, yay!), sex hormones can't work that way. Sex hormones impact the activities of billions of cells in the body at once, many of which are in the brain. There, they play a role in influencing attraction, sexual motivation, stress, hunger, eating patterns, emotion regulation, friendships, aggression, mood, learning, and more. This means that being on the birth control pill makes women a different version of themselves than when they are off of it. And this is a big deal. For instance, women on the pill have a dampened cortisol spike in response to stress. While this might sound great (no stress!), it can have negative implications for learning, memory, and mood. Additionally, because the pill influences who women are attracted to, being on the pill may inadvertently influence who women choose as partners, which can have important implications for their relationships once they go off it. Sometimes these changes are for the better . . . but other times, they're for the worse. By changing what women's brains do, the pill also has the ability to have cascading effects on everything and everyone that a woman encounters. This means that the reach of the pill extends far beyond women's own bodies, having a major impact on society and the world. This paradigm-shattering book provides an even-handed, science-based understanding of who women are, both on and off the pill. It will change the way that women think about their hormones and how they view themselves. It also serves as a rallying cry for women to demand more information from science about how their bodies and brains work and to advocate for better research. This book will help women make more informed decisions about their health, whether they're on the pill or off of it.
Author : Edward Shorter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140225181
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (251 download)
Download or read book A History of Women's Bodies written by Edward Shorter and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Arthurs
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441104526
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Women's Bodies written by Jane Arthurs and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this volume consider the prevailing standards of feminine decorum, and how these are being played with and challenged by various media. This is a collection of essays which focuses on the representation of women's bodies in historical and contemporary cultures. It discusses recent books on the subject, and compares the two different approaches to the body adopted by the soft-porn magazine "For Women", and the women's monthly "Cosmopolitan". It also examines TV cult figures, such as the "comic body" exemplified by comedienne Joe Brand, and situation comedies such as "Absolutely Fabulous".
Author : Jane M. Ussher
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040004857
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Psychology of the Female Body written by Jane M. Ussher and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989, The Psychology of the Female Body examines the role of the female body in women’s identity and experience. She discusses how key events such as menarche, menstruation, pregnancy, and the menopause affect women’s lives, and looks at the ways in which the female body and reproduction have been used to confine and control women. She puts forward psychological evidence to refute many of the myths surrounding women’s bodies, highlighting how empirical evidence shows that, contrary to what stereotypes suggest, women are not victims of their biology. This book will be of interest to students of psychology, sociology, gender studies and women’s studies.
Author : Jeffery Sobal
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412841269
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Weighty Issues written by Jeffery Sobal and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people consider their weight to be a personal problem; when, then, does body weight become a social problem? Until recently, the major public concern was whether enough food was consistently available. As food systems began to provide ample and stable amounts of food, questions about food availability were replaced with concerns about "ideal" weights and appearance. These interests were aggregated into public concerns about defining people as "too fat" and "too thin." Social constructionist perspectives can contribute to the understanding of weight problems because they focus attention on how these problems are created, maintained, and promoted within various social environments. While there is much objectivist research concerning weight problems, few studies address the socially constructed aspects of fatness and thinness. This book however draws from and contributes to social constructionist perspectives. The chapters in this volume offer several perspectives that can be used to understand the way society deals with fatness and thinness. The contributors consider historical foundations, medical models, gendered dimensions, institutional components, and collective perspectives. These different perspectives illustrate the multifaceted nature of obesity and eating disorders, providing examples of how a variety of social groups construct weight as a social problem. Jeffery Sobal is Professor, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University. He is on the board of directors of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and he has Cornell University Graduate Field Membership in the areas of Nutrition, Development Sociology and Epidemiology. Donna Maurer is John S. Knight Postdoctoral Fellow in the Writing Program, Cornell University. She also serves on the board of directors of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and is an adjunct professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland University College. Drs. Sobal and Maurer are coeditors of a companion volume, Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness, and Eating Agendas: Food and Nutrition as Social Problems
Author : Erica L. Johnson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253008735
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Female Face of Shame written by Erica L. Johnson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The female body, with its history as an object of social control, expectation, and manipulation, is central to understanding the gendered construction of shame. Through the study of 20th-century literary texts, The Female Face of Shame explores the nexus of femininity, female sexuality, the female body, and shame. It demonstrates how shame structures relationships and shapes women's identities. Examining works by women authors from around the world, these essays provide an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective on the representations, theories, and powerful articulations of women's shame.
Author : Linda Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Woman's Body, Woman's Right written by Linda Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dorothy Roberts
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804152594
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Killing the Black Body written by Dorothy Roberts and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women. It is as crucial as ever, even two decades after its original publication. "A must-read for all those who claim to care about racial and gender justice in America." —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow In 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conversation on race. In a media landscape dominated by racially biased images of welfare queens and crack babies, Killing the Black Body exposed America’s systemic abuse of Black women’s bodies. From slave masters’ economic stake in bonded women’s fertility to government programs that coerced thousands of poor Black women into being sterilized as late as the 1970s, these abuses pointed to the degradation of Black motherhood—and the exclusion of Black women’s reproductive needs in mainstream feminist and civil rights agendas. “Compelling. . . . Deftly shows how distorted and racist constructions of black motherhood have affected politics, law, and policy in the United States.” —Ms.
Author : Federation of Feminist Women's Health Centers (U.S.)
Publisher : Feminist Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A New View of a Woman's Body written by Federation of Feminist Women's Health Centers (U.S.) and published by Feminist Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Guise Sheridan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030321819
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Purposeful Pain written by Susan Guise Sheridan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pain is an evolutionary and adaptive mechanism to prevent harm to an individual. Beyond this, how it is defined, expressed, and borne is dictated culturally. Thus, the study of pain requires a holistic approach crossing cultures, disciplines, and time. This volume explores how and why pain-inducing behaviors are selected, including their potential to demonstrate individuality, navigate social hierarchies, and express commitment to an ideal. It also explores how power dynamics affect individual choice, at times requiring self-induced suffering. Taking bioanthropological and bioarchaeological approaches, this volume focuses on those who purposefully seek pain to show that, while often viewed as “exotic,” the pervasiveness of pain-inducing practices is more normative than expected. Theory and practice are employed to re-conceptualize pain as a strategic path towards achieving broader individual and societal goals. Past and present motivations for self-inflicted pain, its socio-political repercussions, and the physical manifestations of repetitive or long-term pain inducing behaviors are examined. Chapters span geographic and temporal boundaries and a wide variety of activities to illustrate how purposeful pain is used by individuals for personal expression and manipulated by political powers to maintain the status quo. This volume reveals how bioarchaeology illuminates paleopathology, how social theory enhances bioarchaeology, and how ethnography benefits from a longer temporal perspective.
Author : Lisa Michelle Lepard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (184 download)
Download or read book The Weigh and the Truth written by Lisa Michelle Lepard and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
