Feminist Perspectives on the Body

Name: Feminist Perspectives on the Body
Author: Barbara Brook

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Paperback, 198 blz. | Engels

Taylor & Francis | 1e druk, 1999

ISBN13: 9780582356399

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Taylor & Francis 1e druk, 1999 9780582356399

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Feminist Perspectives on the Body provides an accessible introduction to this extremely popular new area and is aimed at students from a variety of disciplines who are interested in gaining an understanding of the key issues involved. The author explores many important topics including: the Western world's construction of the body as a theoretical, philosophical and political concept; the body and reproduction; medicalisation; cosmetic surgery and eating disorders; the body in performance; the private and the public body; working bodies and new ways of thinking about the body.