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Author : Kathy Davis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135207011
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Reshaping the Female Body written by Kathy Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Lori Reed
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438429541
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Governing the Female Body written by Lori Reed and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A feminist and Foucauldian analysis of a variety of emerging gendered discourses.
Author : Alvaro Jarrín
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805394460
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Remaking the Human written by Alvaro Jarrín and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions – is now part of our lives. Humanity is confronted with a variety of affordable and non-invasive 'enhancement technologies': anti-ageing medicine, aesthetic surgery, cognitive and sexual enhancers, lifestyle drugs, prosthetics and hormone supplements. This collection focuses on why people find these practices so seductive and provides ethnographic insights into people’s motives and aspirations as they embrace or reject enhancement technologies, which are closely entangled with negotiations over gender, class, age, nationality and ethnicity.
Author : Kathy Davis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742514218
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences written by Kathy Davis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathy Davis explores cosmetic surgery as a cultural phenomenon of late modernity. She critically engages with the notion of cosmetic surgery as a neutral technology and shows how it is implicated in the surgical erasure of embodied difference.
Author : Jane M. Ussher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (795 download)
Download or read book The Psychology of the Female Body written by Jane M. Ussher and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deborah L. Rhode
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199779451
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (794 download)
Download or read book The Beauty Bias written by Deborah L. Rhode and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It hurts to be beautiful" has been a cliche for centuries. What has been far less appreciated is how much it hurts not to be beautiful. The Beauty Bias explores our cultural preoccupation with attractiveness, the costs it imposes, and the responses it demands. Beauty may be only skin deep, but the damages associated with its absence go much deeper. Unattractive individuals are less likely to be hired and promoted, and are assumed less likely to have desirable traits, such as goodness, kindness, and honesty. Three quarters of women consider appearance important to their self image and over a third rank it as the most important factor. Although appearance can be a significant source of pleasure, its price can also be excessive, not only in time and money, but also in physical and psychological health. Our annual global investment in appearance totals close to $200 billion. Many individuals experience stigma, discrimination, and related difficulties, such as eating disorders, depression, and risky dieting and cosmetic procedures. Women bear a vastly disproportionate share of these costs, in part because they face standards more exacting than those for men, and pay greater penalties for falling short. The Beauty Bias explores the social, biological, market, and media forces that have contributed to appearance-related problems, as well as feminism's difficulties in confronting them. The book also reviews why it matters. Appearance-related bias infringes fundamental rights, compromises merit principles, reinforces debilitating stereotypes, and compounds the disadvantages of race, class, and gender. Yet only one state and a half dozen localities explicitly prohibit such discrimination. The Beauty Bias provides the first systematic survey of how appearance laws work in practice, and a compelling argument for extending their reach. The book offers case histories of invidious discrimination and a plausible legal and political strategy for addressing them. Our prejudices run deep, but we can do far more to promote realistic and healthy images of attractiveness, and to reduce the price of their pursuit.
Author : Kathy Davis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0585455058
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences written by Kathy Davis and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences explores cosmetic surgery as a cultural phenomenon of late modernity. From its onset as a medical specialty at the end of the nineteenth century, cosmetic surgery has been intimately liked to discourses of 'normalcy,' as well as to gender, race, and other categories of difference that have shaped its technologies and techniques, its professional ideologies, and the objects of its interventions. Davis considers how cosmetic surgery is taken up in representations of cosmetic surgery in medical discourse and in popular culture, drawing on a wide range of cultural manifestations including televised 'infotainment,' popular music, performance art, surgeon biographies, stories of patients, public debates, and medical texts. Davis critically engages with the notion of cosmetic surgery as a neutral technology and shows how it is implicated in the surgical erasure of embodied difference.
Author : Robin Lakoff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000854108
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Face Value written by Robin Lakoff and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1984, Face Value confronts the pervasive power of beauty through art and literature, as well as interviews with men and women with varying perspectives on the subject. The topics covered range widely: the history of beauty from the Greeks to the present; the pathology of beauty: how women have been willing to harm themselves, mentally and physically, to achieve ‘beauty’; the language we use to speak of beauty, and its implications; our attitudes towards beauty, as examined by psychologists; beauty and ethnic identity; men and beauty. The authors present in fact a redefinition of beauty, enabling both women and men to enjoy it in themselves and in others, while discarding the sex-role stereotypes that have governed the definition of beauty in the past. With a new preface that explores the gaps created by time in the book’s discourse, this book will be of interest to students of linguistics, gender studies, women’s studies, cultural studies, sociology and anthropology.
Author : Peggy Morgan
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 9780875962900
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (629 download)
Download or read book The Female Body written by Peggy Morgan and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents clearly explained, authoritative information for women on how to prevent disease and what steps to take to heal themselves, including tips and advice about fertility, pregnancy, menopause, nutrition, weight loss, and body toning.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Female Body written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathy Davis
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Embodied Practices written by Kathy Davis and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1997-09-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 insi
Author : Kathy Davis
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 144620684X
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Gender and Women′s Studies written by Kathy Davis and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This breathtakingly broad, interdisciplinary reader demonstrates how widely feminist thinking has spread, how deeply it has shaken settled assumptions in the disciplines and how much new light it throws on contemporary controversies. - Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin-Madison "A timely intervention and highly engaged, thoughtful and scholarly analysis of the state of gender and women′s studies in the West by three eminent feminist scholars... Highly cognisant of the central issues that have fractured, blocked and enhanced western feminism." - Bev Skeggs, Goldsmiths "The comprehensiveness and the interdisciplinary range of themes are impressive, and they make the Handbook into a wonderful tool for teachers and students of women′s and gender studies." - Nina Lykke, Linkoeping University Gender and women′s studies is one of the most challenging fields within the social sciences - the dynamics of gender relations and the social and cultural implications of gender constructions offer a lively forum of debate. The Handbook of Gender and Women′s Studies presents a comprehensive and engaging review of the most recent developments within the field, including the study of masculinity, the feminist implications of postmodernism, the ′cultural turn′ and globalization. The authors review current research and offer critical analyses of women′s and gender studies in work, the welfare state, family, education, religion, violence and war and feminist global politics. Edited by three leading academics from Europe and the United States, and with 25 chapters written by scholars based throughout the world, the Handbook situates the most important debates in the field within a uniquely international and interdisciplinary context. The Handbook is a useful introduction to gender theory and an exciting starting-point for fresh debates.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (859 download)
Download or read book The Female Body written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laurence Goldstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Female Body written by Laurence Goldstein and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflective essays on women's appearance by anthropologists, poets, psychologists, artists, and historians. -- Back cover.
Author : Kathy Davis
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822390256
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves written by Kathy Davis and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Our Bodies, Ourselves is a feminist success story. Selling more than four million copies since its debut in 1970, it has challenged medical dogmas about women’s bodies and sexuality, shaped health care policies, energized the reproductive rights movement, and stimulated medical research on women’s health. The book has influenced how generations of U.S. women feel about their bodies and health. Our Bodies, Ourselves has also had a whole life outside the United States. It has been taken up, translated, and adapted by women across the globe, inspiring more than thirty foreign language editions. Kathy Davis tells the story of this remarkable book’s global circulation. Based on interviews with members of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, the group of women who created Our Bodies, Ourselves, as well as responses to the book from readers, and discussions with translators from Latin America, Egypt, Thailand, China, Eastern Europe, Francophone Africa, and many other countries and regions, Davis shows why Our Bodies, Ourselves could never have been so influential if it had been just a popular manual on women’s health. It was precisely the book’s distinctive epistemology, inviting women to use their own experiences as resources for producing situated, critical knowledge about their bodies and health, that allowed the book to speak to so many women within and outside the United States. Davis provides a grounded analysis of how feminist knowledge and political practice actually travel, and she shows how the process of transforming Our Bodies, Ourselves offers a glimpse of a truly transnational feminism, one that joins the acknowledgment of difference and diversity among women in different locations with critical reflexivity and political empowerment.
Author : Andrea Elizabeth Shaw
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739154575
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Embodiment of Disobedience written by Andrea Elizabeth Shaw and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the West's privileging of slenderness as an aesthetic ideal, the African Diaspora has historically displayed a resistance to the Western European and North American indulgence in 'fat anxiety.' The Embodiment of Disobedience explores the ways in which the African Diaspora has rejected the West's efforts to impose imperatives of slenderness and mass market fat-anxiety. Author Andrea Shaw explores the origins and contradictions of this phenomenon, especially the cultural deviations in beauty criteria and the related social and cultural practices. Unique in its examination of how both fatness and blackness interact on literary cultural planes, this book also offers a diasporic scope that develops previously unexamined connections among female representations throughout the African Diaspora.
Author : Marion Woodman
Publisher : Conari Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573245661
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Coming Home to Myself written by Marion Woodman and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meditation book for women seeking to raise to their self-esteem & connect more fully with themselves.
