Mary Jacobus / Sally Shuttleworth (eds.)

Body/Politics

Women and the Discourses of Science
Herausgeber: Fox Keller, Evelyn; Shuttleworth, Sally; Jacobus, Mary

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Produktbeschreibung

Body/Politics demonstrates how many of the controversies in modern science involve or invoke the feminine body as their battleground. This groundbreaking collection addresses such scientific issues as artificial fertilization, the "crisis" in childbirth management,and the medical invention of "female" maladies and the debates surrounding them. In the process it makes an important attempt to remedy the traditional division between science and non-science by focusing on the interconnection of literary, social, and scientific discourses concerning the female body. The editors have brought together noted feminist scholars and critics from various fields. Contributers include Susan Bordo, Mary Ann Doane, Donna Haraway, Emily Martin, Mary Poovey and Paula A. Treichler.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9780415901314
• ISBN-10: 0415901316
• Artikelnr.: 25203413

Autorenporträt

Jacobus, Mary; Fox Keller, Evelyn; Shuttleworth, Sally

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Chapter 1 In Parenthesis: Immaculate Conceptions and Feminine Desire
Mary Jacobus; Chapter 2 Speaking of the Body: Mid-Victorian Constructions of Female Desire
May Poovey; Chapter 3 Female Circulation: Medical Discourse and Popular Advertising in the Mid-Victorian Era
Sally Shuttleworth; Chapter 4 Science and Women's Bodies: Forms of Anthropological Knowledge
Emily Martin; Chapter 5 Reading the Slender Body I would like to thank the Rockefeller Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies/Ford Foundation for their generous support
and Le Moyne College
for graciously granting me early sabbatical leave to work on Food
Fashion and Power
of which this paper (in modified form) will be a chapter (Berkeley: University of California Press
forthcoming.) Thanks to Mary Jacobus
Sally Shuttleworth
and especially to Mario Moussa for comments and editorial suggestions.
Susan Bordo; Chapter 6 Feminism
Medicine
and the Meaning of Childbirth
Paula A. Treichler; Chapter 7 Investment Strategies for the Evolving Portfolio of Primate FemalesThis essay is a revised version of a chapter in my book
Primate Visions: Gender
Race
and Nature in the World of Modern Science (New York: Routledge
1989).
Donna Haraway; Chapter 8 Technophilia: Technology
Representation
and the Feminine
Mary Ann Doane; Chapter 9 From Secrets of Life to Secrets of Death
Evelyn Fox Keller;