Body/Politics

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781138160941
• ISBN-10: 1138160946
• Artikelnr.: 71767986

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;