Embodied Practices: Feminist Perspectives on the Body

Abstract

Embody-ing Theory - Kathy Davis Beyond Modernist and Postmodernist Readings of the Body PART ONE: THE FEMALE BODY: DIFFERENCE AND POWER Reading the Body - Anne Woollett and Harriette Marshall Young Women's Accounts of Their Bodies in Relation to Autonomy and Independence Performing the Body, Creating Culture - Anna Aalten Female Bodies and Brittle Bones - Ineke Klinge Medical Interventions in Osteoporosis The Body of Gender Difference - Gesa Lindemann Victims or Offenders? `Other' Women in French Sexual Politics - Rachel A Bloul Sex as Usual - Dubravka Zarkov Body Politics and the Media War in Serbia PART TWO: FEMINIST INTERVENTIONS IN BODY/POLITICS Erotic Bodies - Gon Buurman Images of the Disabled Women's Public Toilets - Julia Edwards and Linda McKie A Serious Issue for the Body Politic Chic Outrage and Body Politics - Joanne Finkelstein `My Body Is My Art' - Kathy Davis Cosmetic Surgery as Feminist Utopia? The Researching Body - Monica Rudberg The Epistemophilic Project