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Writing on the Body
Writing on the Body
Author: Katie Conboy, Nadia Medina, Sarah Stanbury
Exploring the tensions between women's lived bodily experiences and the cultural meanings inscribed on the female body, this volume----complete with editors' introduction----includes classic and contemporary essays on rape, pornography, eroticism, anorexia, body building, menstruation, and maternity, and challenges racial, class, and sexual cate...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780231105453
ISBN-10: 0231105452
Publication Date: 4/15/1997
Pages: 384
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Solid scholarly feminist research on the female body as the site where identity is written. Some contributors are bell hooks, Patricia J. Williams, Tania Modleski, Audre Lorde, and Judith Butler.
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