Lynda Birke

Feminism and the Biological Body (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Bodies may be currently fashionable in social and feminist theory, but their insides are not. Biological bodies always seem to drop out of debates about the body and its importance in Western culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474464437
• Artikelnr.: 72308348

Autorenporträt

LYNDA BIRKE is a feminist biologist who has written extensively on the connections between feminism and science. She is the co-founder of two feminist groups and author of several bookps including Women, Feminism and Biology: The Feminist Challenge; Feminism, Animals and Science: The Naming of the Shrew; Rethinking Biology: Respect for Life and the Creation of Knowledge (co-edited with Ruth Hubbard); and, Common Science? Women, Science and Knowledge (with Jean Barr).  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 
List of Figures
Introduction 
1  Ironing out the Differences? Feminism and Biology
2  Black Boxes and Tedious Universals: Feminism and the (Biological) Body
3  Short Circuits: Reading the Inner Body
4  Spaces and Solidities: Reoresenting Inner Processes
5  Traces of Control: the Body as Systems
6  The Heart - a Broken Metaphor?
7  The Body Becoming: Change and Transformation
8  Connections: the Body's World
notes
references
index