Bodily discursions : genders, representations, technologies / edited by Deborah S. Wilson and Christine Moneera Laennec. - xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - SUNY series, postmodern culture . - SUNY series in postmodern culture. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-262) and index.

Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Female Bodies Misbehaving: Mortification in Early Modern English Domestic Texts -- Romance, Finance, and the Marketable Woman: The Economics of Femininity in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century English Novels -- Molding Women's Bodies: The Surgeon As Sculptor -- The "Assembly-Line Love Goddess": Women and the Machine Aesthetic in Fashion Photography, 1918-1940 -- Technologies of Misogyny: The Transparent Maternal Body and Alternate Reproductions in Frankenstein, Dracula, and Some Selected Media Discourses -- Sexual Silencing: Anesthetizing Women's Voices in Childbirth, 1910-1960 -- Locke, Disembodied Ideas, and Rhetoric That Matters -- "I've Got You Under My Skin": Cyber(sexed) Bodies in Cyberpunk Fictions -- Will the Reel Women in Body Double Please Stand Up? -- Women and AIDS: Bodily Representations, Political Repercussions -- Conflicts in AIDS Discourse: Foucault, Surgeon Generals, and the [Gay Men's] Healthcare Crisis -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

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Body image.
Mind and body.
Human body (Philosophy)
Women--Psychology.
Human body.

BF697.5.B63 / B59 1997

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