1 option
The making of Our bodies, ourselves : how feminism travels across borders / Kathy Davis.
- 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
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.