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The anatomy of gender : women's struggle for the body / edited by Dawn H. Currie & Valerie Raoul.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Currie, Dawn, Author.
- Series:
- Carleton women's experience series ; #3.
- Carleton women's experience series ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism.
- Sex role.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Sex discrimination against women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ottawa : Carleton University Press, 1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Throughout the ages, the female body has been enshrined as an aesthetic object, associated with nature, sin and danger. This collection of essays covers a range of topics related to the female body.
- Contents:
- ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Foreword""; ""Contributors""; ""The Anatomy of Gender: Dissecting Sexual Difference in the Body of Knowledge""; ""Section One: Representation of the Female Body""; ""Pornography or Misogyny? Fear and the Absurd""; ""On the Way to Female Imagery of God""; ""The Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Art""; ""Representation of Women in Chinese Fiction: The Female Body Subdued, Re(s)trained, (Dis)possessed""; ""I-less and Gaga in the West Edmonton Mall: Towards a Pedestrian Feminist Reading""; ""Section Two: Repression of the Female Body""
- ""A Suitable Case for Treatment? Premenstrual Syndrome and the Medicalization of Women's Bodies""; ""Sexual Difference and the Law: Premenstrual Syndrome as Legal Defense""; ""Assessing Reproductive Wrongs: A Feminist Social Work Perspective""; ""Risky Business: Medical Definitions of Pregnancy""; ""Images of Women in Canadian Social Policy: Em-bodying Patriarchy""; ""Section Three: Reclaiming the Female Body""; ""Representation and Resistance: Feminist Struggles against Pornography""; ""Knowing Ourselves as Women""; ""Unhiding the Hidden: Writing during the Quiet Revolution""
- ""Black Women's Reality and Feminism: An Exploration of Race and Gender""; ""Self-Representation and Fictionalysis""; ""moving parts""; ""Habeas Corpus: Anatomy/Autonomy in Relation to Narcissism""
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-7375-5
- OCLC:
- 923230258
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