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The woman in the body : a cultural analysis of reproduction / Emily Martin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [1987]Copyright date: ©1987Description: xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0807046043
  • 9780807046043
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.1082 22
LOC classification:
  • RG103.5 .M37 1987
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Problems and Methods -- 1. The Familiar and the Exotic -- 2. Fragmentation and Gender -- 2. Science as a Cultural System -- 3. Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Menstruation and Menopause -- 4. Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Birth -- 3. Women's Vantage Point -- 5. Self and Body Image -- 6. Menstruation, Work, and Class -- 7. Premenstrual Syndrome, Work Discipline, and Anger -- 8. Birth, Resistance, Race, and Class -- 9. The Creation of New Birth Imagery -- 10. Menopause, Power, and Heat -- 4. Consciousness and Ideology -- 11. Class and Resistance -- 12. The Embodiment of Oppositions -- Appendix 1: Interview Questions -- Appendix 2: Biographical Profiles -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-263) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Problems and Methods -- 1. The Familiar and the Exotic -- 2. Fragmentation and Gender -- 2. Science as a Cultural System -- 3. Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Menstruation and Menopause -- 4. Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Birth -- 3. Women's Vantage Point -- 5. Self and Body Image -- 6. Menstruation, Work, and Class -- 7. Premenstrual Syndrome, Work Discipline, and Anger -- 8. Birth, Resistance, Race, and Class -- 9. The Creation of New Birth Imagery -- 10. Menopause, Power, and Heat -- 4. Consciousness and Ideology -- 11. Class and Resistance -- 12. The Embodiment of Oppositions -- Appendix 1: Interview Questions -- Appendix 2: Biographical Profiles -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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