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The politics of women's bodies : sexuality, appearance, and behavior / [edited by] Rose Weitz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010Edition: Third editionDescription: xiv, 352 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0195390636
  • 9780195390636
Other title:
  • Politics of women's bodies : Sexuality, appearance, and behaviour
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ1206 .P56 2010
Contents:
A history of women's bodies / Rose Weitz -- Believing is seeing : biology as ideology / Judith Lorber -- Becoming a gendered body : practices of preschools / Karin A. Martin -- Women and medicalization : a new perspective / Catherine Kohler Riessman -- Affronting reason / Cheryl Chase -- Foucault, femininity, and the modernization of patriarchal fever / Sandra Lee Bartky -- Menarche and the (hetero)sexualization of the female body / Janet Lee -- Daring to desire : culture and the bodies of adolescent girls / Deborah L. Tolman -- "Get your freak on" : sex, babies, and images of Black femininity / Patricia Hill Collins -- Brain, brow, and booty : Latina iconicity in U.S. popular culture / Isabel Molina Guzmán and Angharad N. Valdivia -- "So full of myself as a chick" : Goth women, sexual independence, and gender egalitarianism / Amy C. Wilkins -- Breasted experience : the look and feeling / Iris Marion Young -- Designing women : cultural hegemony and the exercise of power among women who have undergone elective mammoplasty / Patricia Gagné and Deanna McGaughey -- Women and their hair : seeking power through resistance and accommodation / Rose Weitz -- Branded with infamy : inscriptions of poverty and class in the United States / Vivyan C. Adair -- Letting ourselves go : making room for the fat body in feminist scholarship / Cecilia Hartley -- Rip tide : swimming through life with rheumatoid arthritis / Andrea Avery -- Reclaiming the female body : women body modifiers and feminist debates / Victoria Pitts -- From the "muscle moll" to the "butch" ballplayer : mannishness, lesbianism, and homophobia in U.S. women's sport / Susan K. Cahn -- "Holding back" : negotiating a glass ceiling on women's muscular strength / Shari L. Dworkin -- Compulsive heterosexuality : masculinity and dominance / C.J. Pascoe -- Till death do us part / Margo Wilson and Martin Daly -- Backlash and continuity : the political trajectory of fetal rights / Rachel Roth.
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A history of women's bodies / Rose Weitz -- Believing is seeing : biology as ideology / Judith Lorber -- Becoming a gendered body : practices of preschools / Karin A. Martin -- Women and medicalization : a new perspective / Catherine Kohler Riessman -- Affronting reason / Cheryl Chase -- Foucault, femininity, and the modernization of patriarchal fever / Sandra Lee Bartky -- Menarche and the (hetero)sexualization of the female body / Janet Lee -- Daring to desire : culture and the bodies of adolescent girls / Deborah L. Tolman -- "Get your freak on" : sex, babies, and images of Black femininity / Patricia Hill Collins -- Brain, brow, and booty : Latina iconicity in U.S. popular culture / Isabel Molina Guzmán and Angharad N. Valdivia -- "So full of myself as a chick" : Goth women, sexual independence, and gender egalitarianism / Amy C. Wilkins -- Breasted experience : the look and feeling / Iris Marion Young -- Designing women : cultural hegemony and the exercise of power among women who have undergone elective mammoplasty / Patricia Gagné and Deanna McGaughey -- Women and their hair : seeking power through resistance and accommodation / Rose Weitz -- Branded with infamy : inscriptions of poverty and class in the United States / Vivyan C. Adair -- Letting ourselves go : making room for the fat body in feminist scholarship / Cecilia Hartley -- Rip tide : swimming through life with rheumatoid arthritis / Andrea Avery -- Reclaiming the female body : women body modifiers and feminist debates / Victoria Pitts -- From the "muscle moll" to the "butch" ballplayer : mannishness, lesbianism, and homophobia in U.S. women's sport / Susan K. Cahn -- "Holding back" : negotiating a glass ceiling on women's muscular strength / Shari L. Dworkin -- Compulsive heterosexuality : masculinity and dominance / C.J. Pascoe -- Till death do us part / Margo Wilson and Martin Daly -- Backlash and continuity : the political trajectory of fetal rights / Rachel Roth.

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