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The Politics of Women's Bodies

Author : Rose Weitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199343799
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Women's Bodies written by Rose Weitz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Women's Bodies, Fourth Edition, is an anthology covering the issues surrounding women's bodies. Threads running throughout the book include the distribution of power between men and women, how that affects cultural standards, and how those standards subsequently serve aspowerful and political tools for controlling women's appearance, sexuality, and behavior. This book fills an important niche not covered by other books: focus on women's bodies, social control, and agency.The new edition includes updated readings which engage diversity and highlight cross-cultural relevance where appropriate.

The Politics of Women's Bodies

Author : Rose Weitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Women's Bodies written by Rose Weitz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of writings to provide overview of significant issues such as reproductive freedom, weight issues, and eating disorders, cosmetic surgery, the medicalisation of menopause and menstration.

The Politics of the Female Body in Contemporary Turkey

Author : Hilal Alkan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755617428
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Female Body in Contemporary Turkey written by Hilal Alkan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Turkey, the Justice and Development Party government has introduced new regulations about reproductive rights, and shifted family and gender policies. Women's central role in reproductive and domestic work was swiftly reaffirmed, and abortion and IVF were newly debated. Taking Turkey as the case study, this is the first book to examine the various ways neoliberal modes of governing women's bodies interact with conservative and authoritarian measures. The contributions focus on reproduction, maternity and sexuality, to explore the three main areas of governmental interventions into the female body. Topics for discussion include: the expansion of IVF and egg markets, the privatization of gynaecological and obstetrical care, differential treatment of poor and ethnic minority women's fertility/sexuality, and women's multiple responses to these shifts. While focusing on Turkey, the book presents analytical tools applicable under rising authoritarianisms and conservatisms worldwide.

Body Politics

Author : Maria Josephine Barrios
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Body Politics written by Maria Josephine Barrios and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Seizing Our Bodies

Author : Claudia Dreifus
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Seizing Our Bodies written by Claudia Dreifus and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1977 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Body Politics in Development

Author : Wendy Harcourt
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848136188
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Body Politics in Development written by Wendy Harcourt and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Body Politics in Development sets out to define body politics as a key political and mobilizing force for human rights in the last two decades. This passionate and engaging book reveals how once-tabooed issues, such as rape, gender-based violence, and sexual and reproductive rights, have emerged into the public arena as critical grounds of contention and struggle. Engaging in the latest feminist thinking and action, the book describes the struggles around body politics for people living in economic and socially vulnerable communities and covers a broad range of gender and development issues, including fundamentalism, sexualities and new technologies, from diverse viewpoints. The book's originality comes through the author's rich experience and engagement in feminist activism and global body politics and was winner of the 2010 FWSA Book Prize.

Blood Stories

Author : Janet Lee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317958829
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Blood Stories written by Janet Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blood Stories focuses on menarche as a central aspect of body politics in contemporary US society, emphasizing that women are integrated into the social and sexual order through the body. Using oral and written narratives of 104 diverse women, the authors address the central question of how menarche as a bodily event signifying womanhood takes on cultural significance in a society that devalues women. Exploring issues of contamination and concealment and the sexualization of women's bodies that occurs at menarche, the authors emphasize how the politics of gender are negotiated on/through women's bodies.

Beauvoir and Her Sisters

Author : Sandra Reineke
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252093224
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Beauvoir and Her Sisters written by Sandra Reineke and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauvoir and Her Sisters investigates how women's experiences, as represented in print culture, led to a political identity of an "imagined sisterhood" through which political activism developed and thrived in postwar France. Through the lens of women's political and popular writings, Sandra Reineke presents a unique interpretation of feminist and intellectual discourse on citizenship, identity, and reproductive rights. Drawing on feminist writings by Simone de Beauvoir, feminist reviews from the women's liberation movement, and cultural reproductions from French women's fashion and beauty magazines, Reineke illustrates how print media created new spaces for political and social ideas. This sustained study extends from 1944, when women received the right to vote in France, to 1993, when the French government outlawed anti-abortion activities. Touching on the relationship between consumer culture and feminist practice, Reineke's analysis of a selection of women's writings underlines how these texts challenged traditional gender models and ideals. In revealing that women collectively used texts to challenge the state to redress its abortion laws, Reineke renders the act of writing as a form of political action and highlights the act of reading as an essential but often overlooked space in which marginalized women could exercise dissent and create solidarity.

Body/politics

Author : Mary Jacobus
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415901314
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Body/politics written by Mary Jacobus and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Politics of the Body

Author : Alison Phipps
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745682774
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Body written by Alison Phipps and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 FWSA Book Prize The body is a site of impassioned, fraught and complex debate in the West today. In one political moment, left-wingers, academics and feminists have defended powerful men accused of sex crimes, positioned topless pictures in the tabloids as empowering, and opposed them for sexualizing breasts and undermining their 'natural' function. At the same time they have been criticized by extreme-right groups for ignoring honour killings and other 'culture-based' forms of violence against women. How can we make sense of this varied terrain? In this important and challenging new book, Alison Phipps constructs a political sociology of women's bodies around key debates: sexual violence, gender and Islam, sex work and motherhood. Her analysis uncovers dubious rhetorics and paradoxical allegiances, and contextualizes these within the powerful coalition of neoliberal and neoconservative frameworks. She explores how 'feminism' can be caricatured and vilified at both ends of the political spectrum, arguing that Western feminisms are now faced with complex problems of positioning in a world where gender often comes second to other political priorities. This book provides a welcome investigation into Western politics around women's bodies, and will be particularly useful to scholars and upper-level students of sociology, political science, gender studies and cultural studies, as well as to anyone interested in how bodies become politicized.

Women's Bodies

Author : Jane Arthurs
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Women's Bodies written by Jane Arthurs and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1999 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising essays focusing on the representation of women's bodies in historical and contemporary cultures, this book compares the two different approaches to the body adopted by a soft-porn magazine, For Women, and Cosmopolitan.

The Politics of the Female Body

Author : Ketu Katrak
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813539307
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Female Body written by Ketu Katrak and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to simultaneously belong to and be exiled from a community? In Politics of the Female Body, Ketu H. Katrak argues that it is not only possible, but common, especially for women who have been subjects of colonial empires. Through her careful analysis of postcolonial literary texts, Katrak uncovers the ways that the female body becomes a site of both oppression and resistance. She examines writers working in the English language, including Anita Desai from India, Ama Ata Aidoo from Ghana, and Merle Hodge from Trinidad, among others. The writers share colonial histories, a sense of solidarity, and resistance strategies in the on-going struggles of decolonization that center on the body. Bringing together a rich selection of primary texts, Katrak examines published novels, poems, stories, and essays, as well as activist materials, oral histories, and pamphlets—forms that push against the boundaries of what is considered strictly literary. In these varied materials, she reveals common political and feminist alliances across geographic boundaries. A unique comparative look at women’s literary work and its relationship to the body in third world societies, this text will be of interest to literary scholars and to those working in the fields of postcolonial studies and women’s studies.

The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany

Author : Cornelie Usborne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany written by Cornelie Usborne and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of women's struggle for reproductive self-determination during the Weimar Republic.

The Politics of the Female Body in Contemporary Turkey

Author : Aljan Hilal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780755617432
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Female Body in Contemporary Turkey written by Aljan Hilal and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Under the leadership of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey came new regulations about reproductive rights, family and gender policies. Women's central role in reproductive and domestic work was swiftly reaffirmed as a state value and policies surrounding issues such as abortion and IVF were newly debated. Taking Turkey as the case study, this is the first book to examine the various ways in which neoliberal modes of governing women's bodies come together with conservative and authoritarian measures. The book is divided into three parts - the 'reproductive' body, the 'maternal' body and the 'sexualized' body - to explore the three main governmental representations of, and interventions into, the female body. Topics for discussion include: the increasing control of poor or ethnic minority women's fertility, the expansion of IVF and egg markets, the commodification of pregnancy and motherhood through surrogacy, and the privatization of gynaecological and obstetrical care. The contributors argue that conservative and authoritarian forms of government lead to a direct assault on women's bodies, health and sexuality by legitimizing corporeal control, sexual violence and patriarchal conceptions of religious morality. While focusing on the Turkish case, the editors also propose analytical tools for a broader understanding of the recent changes in the politics of the female body in various contexts such as Eastern Europe, Latin America and the United States."--

The Politics of Women's Health

Author : Susan Sherwin
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566396332
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Women's Health written by Susan Sherwin and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the real world of women's health status and health-care delivery in different countries, and the assumptions behind the dominant medical model of solving problems without regard to social conditions. This book asks what feminist health-care ethics looks like if we start with women's experiences and concerns.

The Female Body in Western Culture

Author : Susan Rubin Suleiman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674298712
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Female Body in Western Culture written by Susan Rubin Suleiman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The female body has occupied a central place in the Western imagination, its images pervading poetry and story, mythology and religious doctrine, the visual arts, and scientific treatises. It has inspired both attraction and fear, been perceived as beautiful and unclean, alluring and dangerous, a source of pleasure and nurturing but also a source of evil and destruction. In The Female Body in Western Culture, twenty-three internationally noted scholars and critics, in specially commissioned essays, explore these representations and their consequences for contemporary art and culture. Ranging from Genesis to Gertrude Stein and Angela Carter, from ancient Greek ritual to the Victorian sleeping cure, from images of the Madonna to modern film and Surrealist art, the essays cover a wide spectrum of approaches and subject mailer. They all converge, however, around questions of power and powerlessness, voice and silence, subjecthood and objectification. And they point the way to the new possibilities and displacements of traditional male-female oppositions. Androgyny in a new key? This book demonstrates that a blurring of gender boundaries does not have to deny difference.

Unshaved

Author : Breanne Fahs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780295750279
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Unshaved written by Breanne Fahs and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Body hair, especially on women, provokes, disrupts, and, at times, offends. It is tangled up with culture itself?in art, families, workplaces, relationships, sex, the beauty industry, governments, and capitalism. From Chinese activists challenging the Communist Party, to students in Arizona rejecting their family and workplace ideas about grooming, to high-art feminist photographers boldly featuring hairy women, Fahs deftly explores the volatile and ever-changing landscape of women?s body hair politics. She showcases an underground movement of artists, zine-makers, rebels, and activists who have used women?s visible body hair as a declaration of freedom from patriarchal norms. Fahs presents body hair not just as a personal grooming choice but as a connection to broader cultural stories about women?s reproductive rights, feminist battlegrounds about autonomy, neoliberal intrusions into beauty regimens, and even global tensions around women?s place in society. Ultimately, Unshaved shows the collision between the mundane and the extraordinary, the everyday and the revolutionary.