Body/politics : women and the discourses of science / edited by Mary Jacobus, Evelyn Fox Keller, Sally Shuttleworth.
Body/Politics demonstrates how many of the controversies in modern science involve or invoke the feminine body as their battleground. This groundbreaking collection addresses such scientific issues as artificial fertilization, the ""crisis"" in childbirth management, and the medi...
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1990.
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Table of Contents:
- BODY/POLITICS WOMEN AND THE DISCOURSES OF SCIENCE; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 In Parenthesis: Immaculate Conceptions and Feminine Desire; 2 Speaking of the Body: Mid-Victorian Constructions of Female Desire; 3 Female Circulation: Medical Discourse and Popular Advertising in the Mid-Victorian Era; 4 Science and Women's Bodies: Forms of Anthropological Knowledge; 5 Reading the Slender Body; 6 Feminism, Medicine, and the Meaning of Childbirth; 7 Investment Strategies for the Evolving Portfolio of Primate Females.
- 8 Technophilia: Technology, Representation, and the Feminine9 From Secrets of Life to Secrets of Death; Index; Contributors.