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Routledge
This Reader provides students with a comprehensive overview of differing feminist approaches to the body. Its wide range of contributions locate the important historical developments, interdisciplinary perspectives, and key discourses that have shaped this dynamic area of feminist theory.
Acknowlegements Openings on the Body: A Critical Introduction Section 1: Woman as Body? Section 2: Sexy Bodies Section 3: Bodies in Science and Biomedicine Section 4: After the Binary Section 5: Alter/ed Bodies Section 6: BodySpaceMatter Section 7: Performing the Body Copywright Acknowledgments Subject Index Name Index
Biography
Janet Price teaches at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Margrit Shildrick is a Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, and the Institute of Women's Studies, Lancaster.
