This book focuses on the significance of the body in contemporary feminist scholarship. In recent years, the body has become a `hot item? in both contemporary social theory and research. This renewed interest has received a mixed reaction from feminists. While the body may be back, the `new? body theory often proves to be just as disembodied as it ever was. The body revival seems to be less an attempt to re-embody masculinist science than just another expression of the same condition which evoked the feminist critique in the first place: a flight from femininity and everything that is associated with it in western culture.
Embodied Practices offers a critical appraisal of the recent `body revival?, drawing upon insights from contemporary feminist theories on gender and power to explore the subject. The book sets an agenda not only for research about the body but for an embodied perspective on the body as well.
| ISBN: | 9780761953623 |
| Publication date: | 25th July 1997 |
| Author: | Kathy Davis |
| Publisher: | Sage an imprint of SAGE Publications |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | European Journal of Women's Studies Readers |
| Genres: |
Gender studies: women and girls |
This book focuses on the significance of the body in contemporary feminist scholarship. In recent years, the body has become a `hot item? in both contemporary social theory and research. This renewed interest has received a mixed reaction from feminists. While the body may be back, the `new? body theory often proves to be just as disembodied as it ever was. The body revival seems to be less an attempt to re-embody masculinist science than just another expression of the same condition which evoked the feminist critique in the first place: a flight from femininity and everything that is associated with it in western culture.
Embodied Practices offers a critical appraisal of the recent `body revival?, drawing upon insights from contemporary feminist theories on gender and power to explore the subject. The book sets an agenda not only for research about the body but for an embodied perspective on the body as well.
Embodied Practices features in the following genres: Gender studies: women and girls
Embodied Practices is available in Hardback, Paperback
Embodied Practices was written by Kathy Davis and published by Sage an imprint of SAGE Publications
Embodied Practices has 240 pages
Yes it is part of European Journal of Women's Studies Readers series
£190.80