Politics of Women's Bodies Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior

Name: Politics of Women's Bodies Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior
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ISBN: 9780195390636

ISBN-10: 0195390636

ISBN-13: 9780195390636

Edition: 3rd 2010

Authors: Rose Weitz

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For the past three decades, feminist scholars have examined how the female body and ideas about the female body affect women's lives. Revised and updated in its third edition, The Politics of Women's Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior brings together recent critical writings in this important field. The selections reflect three themes: how ideas about women's bodies in the United States are socially constructed, how these social constructions can be used to control women's lives, and how women attempt to resist these forces. Exceptionally well-written and edited for accessibility, the articles cover a wide range of topics and also address issues of class, ethnicity, and sexual…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/5/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.20" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface



The Social Construction of Women's Bodies



A History of Women's Bodies




Believing Is Seeing: Biology as Ideology




Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools




Women and Medicalization: A New Perspective




Affronting Reason




Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power




The Politics of Sexuality



Menarche and the (Hetero) sexualization of the Female Body




Daring to Desire: Culture and the Bodies of Adolescent Girls




"Get Your Freak On": Sex, Babies, and Images of Black Femininity




Brian, Brow, and Booty: Latina Iconicity in U.S. Popular Culture




"So Full of Myself as a Chick": Goth Women, Sexual Independence, and Gender Egalitarianism




The Politics of Appearance



Breasted Experience: The Look and the Feeling




Designing Women: Cultural Hegemony and the Exercise of Power among Women Who Have Undergone Elective Mammoplasty




Women and Their Hair: Seeking Power Through Resistance and Accommodation




Branded with Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in the United States




Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship




Rip Tide: Swimming Through Life with Rheumatoid Arthritis




Reclaiming the Female Body: Women Body Modifiers and Feminist Debates




The Politics of Behavior



From the "Muscle Moll" to the "Butch" Ballplayer: Mannishness, Lesbianism, and Homophobia in U.S. Women's Sport




"Holding Back": Negotiating a Glass Ceiling on Women's Muscular Strength




Compulsive Heterosexuality: Masculinity and Dominance




Till Death Us Do Part




Backlash and Continuity: The Political Trajectory of Fetal Rights