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The making of Our bodies, ourselves : how feminism travels across borders / Kathy Davis.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection Pre-2008 Archive Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Davis, Kathy, 1949-
Series:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Next wave.
Next wave
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Boston Women's Health Book Collective.
Feminism--Cross-cultural studies.
Feminism.
Women--Psychology--Cross-cultural studies.
Women.
Women--Health and hygiene--Cross-cultural studies.
Social change--Cross-cultural studies.
Social change.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (291 p.)
Place of Publication:
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2007.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
The story of how the feminist classic Our Bodies, Ourselves has been adapted and reworked by women of different cultures around the world.
Contents:
OBOS in the United States : the enigma of a feminist "success story"
OBOS abroad : from "center" to "periphery" and back
Between empowerment and bewitchment : the myth of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective
Reclaiming women's bodies : colonialist trope or critical epistemology?
Creating feminist subjects : the reader and the text
Oppositional translations and imagined communities : adapting OBOS
Transnational knowledges, transnational politics.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-272) and index.
ISBN:
9786613035479
9781283035477
1283035472
9780822390251
0822390256
OCLC:
262328122

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