for Nearly Three Decades, Feminist Scholars Have Examined How The Female Body And Ideas About The Female Body Affect Women's Lives. the Politics Of Women's Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, And Behavior, 2/e , Brings Together Recent Critical Writings In This Important Field, Covering Such Diverse Topics As The Sources Of Eating Disorders, The Nature Of Lesbianism, And The Consequences Of Violence Against Women. With The Exception Of Two Classic Articles, All Pieces Were Published In The Last Decade, And One-quarter Of The Selections Are New To The Second Edition.
the Politics Of Women's Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, And Behavior, 2/e , Begins By Looking At How Ideas About Women's Bodies Become Culturally Accepted. As The Writings In The First Section Demonstrate, This Is A Political Process That Can Reflect, Reinforce, Or Challenge The Distribution Of Power Between Men And Women. Subsequent Sections Look At How, Once Ideas About Women's Bodies Become Accepted, They Can Serve As Powerful—and Political—tools For Controlling Women's Appearance, Sexuality, And Behavior. Articles New To This Edition Include Daring To Desire: Culture And The Bodies Of Adolescent Girls, By Deborah L. Tolman; Casing My Joints: A Private And Public Story Of Arthritis, By Mary Lowenthal Felstiner; And Holding Back: Negotiating A Glass Ceiling On Women's Muscular Strength, By Shari L. Dworkin. This Unique Interdisciplinary Anthology Is Ideal For Undergraduate Courses That Cover The Body And Sexuality. It Is Also Appropriate For Introductory Courses In Women's Studies And Courses In The Psychology, Anthropology, Or Sociology Of Women; Women And Health; And Feminist Theory.

Weitz, Rose, 1952-

Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

German Historical Institute London

New York: Oxford University Press

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

3, 2009

Includes bibliographical references.

xiv, 352 pages ; 24 cm
This anthology presents writings on the politics of women's bodies, giving an overview of issues in the fields of gender and women's studies. Topics include cultural versus biological differences of men and women, and the politics around reproduction
Includes bibliographical references
A history of women's bodies / Rose Weitz -- Believing is seeing : biology as ideology / Judith Lorber -- Becoming a gendered body : practices of preschools / Karin A. Martin -- Women and medicalization : a new perspective / Catherine Kohler Riessman -- Affronting reason / Cheryl Chase -- Foucault, femininity, and the modernization of patriarchal fever / Sandra Lee Bartky -- Menarche and the (hetero)sexualization of the female body / Janet Lee -- Daring to desire : culture and the bodies of adolescent girls / Deborah L. Tolman -- "Get your freak on" : sex, babies, and images of Black femininity / Patricia Hill Collins -- Brain, brow, and booty : Latina iconicity in U.S. popular culture / Isabel Molina Guzmán and Angharad N. Valdivia -- "So full of myself as a chick" : Goth women, sexual independence, and gender egalitarianism / Amy C. Wilkins -- Breasted experience : the look and feeling / Iris Marion Young -- Designing women : cultural hegemony and the exercise of power among women who have undergone elective mammoplasty / Patricia Gagné and Deanna McGaughey -- Women and their hair : seeking power through resistance and accommodation / Rose Weitz -- Branded with infamy : inscriptions of poverty and class in the United States / Vivyan C. Adair -- Letting ourselves go : making room for the fat body in feminist scholarship / Cecilia Hartley -- Rip tide : swimming through life with rheumatoid arthritis / Andrea Avery -- Reclaiming the female body : women body modifiers and feminist debates / Victoria Pitts -- From the "muscle moll" to the "butch" ballplayer : mannishness, lesbianism, and homophobia in U.S. women's sport / Susan K. Cahn -- "Holding back" : negotiating a glass ceiling on women's muscular strength / Shari L. Dworkin -- Compulsive heterosexuality : masculinity and dominance / C.J. Pascoe -- Till death do us part / Margo Wilson and Martin Daly -- Backlash and continuity : the political trajectory of fetal rights / Rachel Roth

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