Books by subject
Books by subject
Female Body Studies
Body Image : Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women, and Children
by Sarah Grog
Paperback - 208 pages
(February 1999)
Routledge; ISBN: 0415147859 ;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.62 x 8.52 x 5.94
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 439,609
Table of
Contents Body Images : Embodiment As Intercorporeality
List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Culture and body image
3. Women and body satisfaction
4. Men and body satisfaction
5. Media effects
6. Age, social class, ethnicity and sexuality
7. Conclusions and implications
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by Gail Weiss
Paperback - 224 pages
(January 1999)
Routledge; ISBN: 0415918030 ;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x 9.01 x 6.07
Other Editions: Hardcover
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Breasts : The Women's Perspective on an American Obsession
Human beings grow up bearing the imprint of the breast they knew in infancy - whatever that breast or surrogate breast was. And the breast they peek at or yearn for in adolescence, the breast they encounter in lovemaking, the breast they see in the movies or on individuals walking by on the streets-all these breasts will become entwined with feelings so deep they are felt as fact. On some level, our feelings about breasts will always mingle with our sense of how we are fed, how we are nourished by life, and whether the world is a place we can trust
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Breasts carry so much cultural weight that they often do not function as well as they might. Our sex lives are sensitive and telling parts of us, a little like our dream lives. In our dreams, wonderful and horrible things happen. It is the time when monsters come out, or we can suddenly fly. For some women, breast carry unconscious memories that stretch back to birth and span the breadth of adulthood, with a history that seems to enrich their erotic lives. But for too many, the monsters are grumbling in the background, and when a lover touches their breasts, the women wince in pain.
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The wise woman's daughter may be forgotten, but people are still telling stories about breasts. A late twentieth century revival of stories about goddesses shows there is some life left in them yet. And twentieth century women have added their voices to the story-telling chorus. Some of the stories they tell, like the ones in the pages of this book, are terribly sad - stories of loss and disease or stories of embarrassment and exploitation. But they also tell stories of desire and fulfillment, stories of self-knowledge -- uplifting and funny stories about breasts. These days breasts seem to be too wrapped in sexual meanings to be widely held up as a sacred symbol. But nearly every week some newspaper story come out telling about the magical quality of breast milk, which prevents a host of diseases and promotes an growing number of good human traits. And women are telling breastfeeding stories that show their wonder at discovering the transformative power of their breasts, a power that they believe nurtures and transforms not only the baby, but also the woman and the world. -
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Dedication to Hunger : The Anorexic Aesthetic
in Modern Culture
by Leslie Heywood
Hardcover - 243 pages
(March 1996)
Univ California Press; ISBN: 0520201175
; Dimensions (in inches): 0.94 x 9.32 x 6.31
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the Back Cover
"Leslie Heywood weaves deftly and powerfully between contemporary cultural
analysis, literary criticism, and her own experiences as a postmodern/female
body. The result is a work that is both critically acute and vibrating with
emotional energy and insight, a work that itself constitutes a promise of new
life in the 'anorexic' culture she so sharply diagnoses and interprets."
(Susan Bordo, author of Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the
Body)
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Embodied Practices : Feminist Perspectives
on the Body
by Kathy Davis (Editor)
Hardcover (August 1997)
Sage Pubns; ISBN: 0761953620
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Table of
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Preface
1 Embody-ing Theory: Beyond Modernist and Postmodernist Readings of the Body
Kathy Davis
THE FEMALE BODY: DIFFERENCE AND POWER
2 Reading the Body: Young Women's Accounts
of their Bodies in Relation to Autonomy and
Independence Anne Woollett
Harriette Marshall
3 Performing the Body, Creating Culture Anna Aalten
4 Female Bodies and Brittle Bones: Medical
Interventions in Osteoporosis
Ineke Klinge
5 The Body of Gender Difference
Gesa Lindemann
6 Victims or Offenders? 'Other' Women in French Sexual Politics
Rachel A. Bloul
7 Sex as Usual: Body Politics and the Media
War in Serbia
Dubravka Zarkov
FEMINIST INTERVENTIONS IN BODY/POLITICS
8 Erotic Bodies: Images of the Disabled Gon Buurman
9 Women's Public Toilets: A Serious Issue for the Body Politic
Julia Edwards
Linda McKie
10 Chic Outrage and Body Politics Joanne Finkelstein
11 'My Body is My Art': Cosmetic Surgery as Feminist Utopia?
Kathy Davis
12 The Researching Body: The Epistemophilic Project
Monica Rudberg
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Gender/Body/Knowledge : Feminist
Reconstructions of Being and Knowing
by Alison M. Jaggar (Editor), Susan R. Bordo (Editor)
Paperback - 376
pages (July 1989)
Rutgers Univ Press; ISBN: 0813513790
; Dimensions (in inches): 1.02 x 9.02 x 6.04
Other Editions: Hardcover
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Miscegenation Blues : Voices of Mixed Race Women
Paperback (June 1994)
Sister Vision Pr; ISBN: 092081395X
; Dimensions (in inches): 1.42 x 9.01 x 6.04
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The Politics of Women's Bodies : Sexuality, Appearance
and Behavior
by Rose Weitz (Editor)
Paperback - 336 pages (April 1998)
Oxford Univ Press; ISBN: 0195109953
; Dimensions (in inches): 0.56 x 9.22 x 6.18
Other Editions: Hardcover
Reviews
The author, Rose Weitz, Arizona State
University , March 4, 1998
An important anthology on a critical issue
This book is the first anthology to bring together recent critical
writings on how the female body and ideas about the female body affect women's
lives. The book draws from a wide range of disciplines, and covers topics as
diverse as the impact of homophobia on women athletes, the sources of violence
against women, and the consequences of the "fetal rights" movement.
The Politics of Women's Bodies begins by looking at how ideas about women's
bodies become culturally accepted. As the writings in the first section demonstrates,
this is a political process, which can reflect, reinforce, or challenge the
distribution of power between men and women. Subsequent sections look at how,
once ideas about women's bodies become accepted, they can serve as powerful--and
political--tools for controlling women's appearance, sexuality, and behavior.
Yet women are not always passive victims of cultural ideas; rather, they sometimes
either collaborate in or resist them. Consequently, this volume also examines
the potential for and limits on women's resistance to ideas about female bodies.
Each section incorporates materials on class, ethnicity, age, and sexual orientation.
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Space, Time, and Perversion : Essays on the Politics
of Bodies
by Elizabeth Grosz
Paperback (September
1995)
Routledge; ISBN: 0415911370 ;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.42 x 8.78 x 5.80
Other Editions: Hardcover
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 73,891
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Technologies of the Gendered
Body : Reading Cyborg Women
by Anne Balsamo
Paperback (January 1996)
Duke Univ Pr (Txt); ISBN: 0822316986
; Dimensions (in inches): 0.70 x 9.15 x 6.00
Other Editions: Hardcover
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Telling Flesh : The Substance of the Corporeal
Paperback - 224 pages
(August 1997)
Routledge; ISBN: 0415910293 ;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.48 x 8.94 x 5.98
Other Editions: Hardcover
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Twilight Zones : The Hidden Life of Cultural Images
from Plato to O.J.
by Susan Bordo
Paperback - 290 pages
Reprint edition (January 1999)
University of California Press;
ISBN: 0520211022 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.76 x 9.00 x 6.05
Other Editions: Hardcover
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Unbearable Weight : Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
Volatile Bodies : Toward a Corporeal Feminism (Theories of Representation and Difference)