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Vital signs : feminist reconfigurations of the bio/logical body / edited by Margrit Shildrick and Janet Price.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminist theory.
- Women--Physiology.
- Women.
- Human body--Social aspects.
- Human body.
- Human body--Symbolic aspects.
- Postmodernism.
- Medical sciences.
- Body, Human.
- Local Subjects:
- Body, Human.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 256 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- "Vital Signs" vigorously brings feminist philosophical and postmodern thinking to bear on the topics of biomedicine and the body, examining issues such as meditating bodies; sexuality and the clinical encounter; the heart as metaphor; spatiality of bodies and sexual abuse; postcolonial bodies and the clinic; biopsychiatry; tanning; disabilities; and hysteria.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0748609628
- 0748609636
- OCLC:
- 39962459
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