Leaky bodies and boundaries : feminism, postmodernism and (bio)ethics /
By: Shildrick, Margrit.
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997Description: vi, 252 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 041514616X; 9780415146166:; 9780415146166; 0415146178 (pbk.); 9780415146173 (pbk.).Subject(s): Human body -- Social aspects | Women -- Health and hygiene | Postmodernism![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-244) and index.
1. Fabrica(tions): on the construction of the human body -- 2. Foundations -- 3. Fractures -- 4. Feminist ethics -- 5. Feminist theory and postmodernism -- 6. Leaks and flows: NRTs and the postmodern body.
Drawing on postmodernist analyses, this text presents a feminist investigation into the marginalisation of women within western discourse that denies female moral agency & embodiment.