Drawing on postmodernist analyses, Leaky Bodies and Boundaries presents a feminist
investigation into the marginalization of women within western discourse that denies female …

The provocative contention of the postmodernist and feminist essays in Ethics of the Body is
that conventional bioethics is out of touch, despite its growing profile. It is out of touch with an …

This book focuses on the significance of the body in contemporary feminist scholarship.
Whether the body is treated as biological bedrock or subversive metaphor, it is implicated in …

What sort of ethics do we need? Rosalyn Diprose argues that the usual approaches to ethics
both perpetuate and remain blind to the mechanisms of the subordination of women. In …

In a path-breaking essay,'The Virtual Speculum in the New World Order (1999),'Donna
Haraway links Our Bodies, Ourselves (the book and the slogan) to a critique of the US …

Setting out the implications of the postmodern condition for medical ethics, Troubled Bodies
challenges the contemporary paradigms of medical ethics and reconceptualizes the nature …

Price and Shildrick bring together over 40 important feminist thinkers to discuss key
arguments and issues concerning the body. It includes articles on race, cyberspace, theatre …

Bodies may be currently fashionable in social and feminist theory, but their insides are not.
Biological bodies always seem to drop out of debates about the body and its importance in …

We have no interest whatever in minimizing the continuing history of racist, sexist,
homophobic, or otherwise abusive biologisms, or the urgency of their exposure, that has …

We propose that women's health—both theory and practice—is a powerful arena in which to
re-align and change the modernist theoretical underpinnings of current biomedical …