The feminist women's health movement empowered women's knowledge regarding their
health and battled against paternalistic and oppressive practices within healthcare systems …

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

In everyday life we are not, for the most part, actively conscious of our bodies or the bodies
of others–we simply take them for granted. This new edition of a lively introduction to the …

Although the vagina is a rare topic in the social science literature, numerous socio-cultural
representations of the vagina can be found throughout Western societies. Such …

Theories of postmodernism and the tool of deconstruction are not often associated with the
kinds of substantive issues with which an everyday living feminism concerns itself. They may …

A recent newspaper article (that I can remember reading but cannot remember where) told a
story about some feminist academics in Italy organizing a conference on certain aspects of …

This text presents evidence of the work and action of feminists in academia and shows that
there is still much to be done before academia is a safe and welcoming environment for …

Feminist concerns about the social representation of sex, sexuality, and sexual organs have
included analyses of their representation both in dictionaries and in medical texts. Drawing …

Gendered identity is often assumed to be predicated on the prior existence of dichotomously
sexed bodies: penis equating to maleness and vagina (or the absence of a penis) equating …

In the aftermath of every major breakthrough or revolution in the natural sciences, each
newly adopted theory evolves into four narrative forms. First, there is the canonical form of …