Reshaping The Female Body
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Reshaping The Female Body
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Author : Kathy Davis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-15
Reshaping The Female Body written by Kathy Davis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with Social Science categories.
Reshaping... looks at women's involvement in cosmetic surgery and raises the question of why women put themselves under the knife for operations which are painful, risky and expensive and often leave them in worse shape than before.
Reshaping The Female Body
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Author : Kathy Davis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-15
Reshaping The Female Body written by Kathy Davis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with Social Science categories.
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Reshaping The Female Body
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Author : Kathy Davis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Reshaping The Female Body written by Kathy Davis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Medical categories.
Discusses the psychological impact of plastic surgery, and looks at the social pressures on women to achieve a certain type of image
Remaking The Human
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Author : Alvaro Jarrín
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2021-04-01
Remaking The Human written by Alvaro Jarrín and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-01 with Social Science categories.
The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions – is now part of our lives. Humanity is confronted with a variety of affordable and non-invasive 'enhancement technologies': anti-ageing medicine, aesthetic surgery, cognitive and sexual enhancers, lifestyle drugs, prosthetics and hormone supplements. This collection focuses on why people find these practices so seductive and provides ethnographic insights into people’s motives and aspirations as they embrace or reject enhancement technologies, which are closely entangled with negotiations over gender, class, age, nationality and ethnicity.
Governing The Female Body
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Author : Lori Reed
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Governing The Female Body written by Lori Reed and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Social Science categories.
A feminist and Foucauldian analysis of a variety of emerging gendered discourses.
Dubious Equalities And Embodied Differences
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Author : Kathy Davis
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2003-10-01
Dubious Equalities And Embodied Differences written by Kathy Davis and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-01 with Medical categories.
Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences explores cosmetic surgery as a cultural phenomenon of late modernity. From its onset as a medical specialty at the end of the nineteenth century, cosmetic surgery has been intimately liked to discourses of 'normalcy,' as well as to gender, race, and other categories of difference that have shaped its technologies and techniques, its professional ideologies, and the objects of its interventions. Davis considers how cosmetic surgery is taken up in representations of cosmetic surgery in medical discourse and in popular culture, drawing on a wide range of cultural manifestations including televised 'infotainment,' popular music, performance art, surgeon biographies, stories of patients, public debates, and medical texts. Davis critically engages with the notion of cosmetic surgery as a neutral technology and shows how it is implicated in the surgical erasure of embodied difference.
Public Privates
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Author : Terri Kapsalis
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1997
Public Privates written by Terri Kapsalis and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Health & Fitness categories.
The quintessential examination of women, gynecology is not simply the study of women's bodies, but also serves to define and constitute them. From J. Marion Sims's surgical experiments on unanesthetized slave women in the mid-19th century to the use of cadavers and prostitutes to teach medical students gynecological techniques, Kapsalis focuses on the ways in which women and their bodies have been treated by the medical establishment. 34 photos.
Face Value
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Author : Robin Lakoff
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-11-30
Face Value written by Robin Lakoff and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
First published in 1984, Face Value confronts the pervasive power of beauty through art and literature, as well as interviews with men and women with varying perspectives on the subject. The topics covered range widely: the history of beauty from the Greeks to the present; the pathology of beauty: how women have been willing to harm themselves, mentally and physically, to achieve ‘beauty’; the language we use to speak of beauty, and its implications; our attitudes towards beauty, as examined by psychologists; beauty and ethnic identity; men and beauty. The authors present in fact a redefinition of beauty, enabling both women and men to enjoy it in themselves and in others, while discarding the sex-role stereotypes that have governed the definition of beauty in the past. With a new preface that explores the gaps created by time in the book’s discourse, this book will be of interest to students of linguistics, gender studies, women’s studies, cultural studies, sociology and anthropology.
Embodied Practices
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Author : Kathy Davis
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Release Date : 1997-09-15
Embodied Practices written by Kathy Davis and has been published by SAGE Publications Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-09-15 with Social Science categories.
This book focuses on the significance of the body in contemporary feminist scholarship. In recent years, the body has become a `hot item' in both contemporary social theory and research. This renewed interest has received a mixed reaction from feminists. While the body may be back, the `new' body theory often proves to be just as disembodied as it ever was. The body revival seems to be less an attempt to re-embody masculinist science than just another expression of the same condition which evoked the feminist critique in the first place: a flight from femininity and everything that is associated with it in western culture. Embodied Practices offers a critical appraisal of the recent `body revival', drawing upon insi
Handbook Of Gender And Women S Studies
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Author : Kathy Davis
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2006-04-27
Handbook Of Gender And Women S Studies written by Kathy Davis and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-27 with Social Science categories.
This breathtakingly broad, interdisciplinary reader demonstrates how widely feminist thinking has spread, how deeply it has shaken settled assumptions in the disciplines and how much new light it throws on contemporary controversies. - Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin-Madison "A timely intervention and highly engaged, thoughtful and scholarly analysis of the state of gender and women′s studies in the West by three eminent feminist scholars... Highly cognisant of the central issues that have fractured, blocked and enhanced western feminism." - Bev Skeggs, Goldsmiths "The comprehensiveness and the interdisciplinary range of themes are impressive, and they make the Handbook into a wonderful tool for teachers and students of women′s and gender studies." - Nina Lykke, Linkoeping University Gender and women′s studies is one of the most challenging fields within the social sciences - the dynamics of gender relations and the social and cultural implications of gender constructions offer a lively forum of debate. The Handbook of Gender and Women′s Studies presents a comprehensive and engaging review of the most recent developments within the field, including the study of masculinity, the feminist implications of postmodernism, the ′cultural turn′ and globalization. The authors review current research and offer critical analyses of women′s and gender studies in work, the welfare state, family, education, religion, violence and war and feminist global politics. Edited by three leading academics from Europe and the United States, and with 25 chapters written by scholars based throughout the world, the Handbook situates the most important debates in the field within a uniquely international and interdisciplinary context. The Handbook is a useful introduction to gender theory and an exciting starting-point for fresh debates.