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Writing on the body : female embodiment and feminist theory /

Contributor(s): Conboy, Katie | Medina, Nadia | Stanbury, Sarah.
Series: Gender and culture reader: Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c1997Description: x, 430 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0231105444 (cloth) (alk. paper); 9780231105446:; 9780231105446 (cloth) (alk. paper); 0231105452 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780231105453 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Feminist literary criticism | Human body in literature | Body, Human, in literature | Women in literature | Sex in literature | Feminism and the artsDDC classification: 305.4
Contents:
Medical metaphors of women's bodies : menstruation and menopause / Emily Martin -- Rape : on coercion and consent / Catherine A. MacKinnon -- Mothers, monsters, and machines / Rosi Braidotti -- Corporeal representation in/and the body politic / Moira Gatens -- The body and the reproduction of femininity / Susan Bordo -- Selling hot pussy : representations of Black female sexuality in the cultural marketplace / bell hooks -- Foucault, femininity, and the modernization of patriarchal power / Sandra Lee Bartky -- On being the object of property / Patricia J. Williams -- Film and the masquerade : theorizing the female spectator / Mary Ann Doane -- The body and cinema : some problems for feminism / Annette Kuhn -- Cinema and the dark continent : race and gender in popular film / Tania Modleski -- Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth -- La conciencia de la mestiza : towards a new consciousness / Gloria Anzaldúa -- This sex which is not one / Luce Irigaray -- Hysteria, psychoanalysis, and feminism : the case of Anna O. / Dianne Hunter -- Uses of the erotic : the erotic as power / Audre Lorde -- The persistence of vision / Donna Haraway -- Carnal acts / Nancy Mairs -- One is not born a woman / Monique Wittig -- Female grotesques : carnival and theory / Mary Russo -- The Empire Strikes Back : a posttransexual manifesto / Sandy Stone -- A provoking agent : the pornography and performance art of Annie Sprinkle / Linda Williams -- Tracking the vampire / Sue-Ellen Case -- Performance acts and gender constitution : an essay in phenomenology and feminist theory / Judith Butler.
Summary: This work comprises a collection of influential readings in feminist theory. It is divided into four sections: "Reading the Body"; "Bodies in Production"; "The Body Speaks"; and "Body on Stage".
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-425).

Medical metaphors of women's bodies : menstruation and menopause / Emily Martin -- Rape : on coercion and consent / Catherine A. MacKinnon -- Mothers, monsters, and machines / Rosi Braidotti -- Corporeal representation in/and the body politic / Moira Gatens -- The body and the reproduction of femininity / Susan Bordo -- Selling hot pussy : representations of Black female sexuality in the cultural marketplace / bell hooks -- Foucault, femininity, and the modernization of patriarchal power / Sandra Lee Bartky -- On being the object of property / Patricia J. Williams -- Film and the masquerade : theorizing the female spectator / Mary Ann Doane -- The body and cinema : some problems for feminism / Annette Kuhn -- Cinema and the dark continent : race and gender in popular film / Tania Modleski -- Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth -- La conciencia de la mestiza : towards a new consciousness / Gloria Anzaldúa -- This sex which is not one / Luce Irigaray -- Hysteria, psychoanalysis, and feminism : the case of Anna O. / Dianne Hunter -- Uses of the erotic : the erotic as power / Audre Lorde -- The persistence of vision / Donna Haraway -- Carnal acts / Nancy Mairs -- One is not born a woman / Monique Wittig -- Female grotesques : carnival and theory / Mary Russo -- The Empire Strikes Back : a posttransexual manifesto / Sandy Stone -- A provoking agent : the pornography and performance art of Annie Sprinkle / Linda Williams -- Tracking the vampire / Sue-Ellen Case -- Performance acts and gender constitution : an essay in phenomenology and feminist theory / Judith Butler.

This work comprises a collection of influential readings in feminist theory. It is divided into four sections: "Reading the Body"; "Bodies in Production"; "The Body Speaks"; and "Body on Stage".

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