Body Politics in Development Critical Debates in Gender and Development

Name: Body Politics in Development Critical Debates in Gender and Development
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ISBN: 9781842779354

ISBN-10: 1842779354

ISBN-13: 9781842779354

Edition: 2009

Authors: Wendy Harcourt, Wendy HARCOURT

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This book explores how activists around the world have organized to fight for their economic and social rights and well-being, to end violence against women and militarism, to promote sexual and reproductive rights, and to protect bodily integrity in the face of the new biotechnologies. Seeing the body as a fluid site of power and political contestation where specific cultural, social and economic realities and struggles are played out, Harcourt looks at body politics from the intimate and personal within self, family and community to the public at national and global levels and discourses.Using narrative, interview, analysis and theory to bring out the importance of different facets of…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Zed Books, Limited
Publication date: 7/9/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction: Invisible Bodies



What is Body Politics?



Reproductive Bodies



Productive and Caring Bodies



Violated Bodies



Sexualized Bodies



Techno-Bodies


Conclusion: Empowering Bodies


References


Index