The status of the body within the dominant Western intellectual tradition has largely been
one of absence or dismissal. This chapter briefly traces that feminism has long seen its own …

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 …

For much of the history of western philosophy the body has been conceptualized as simply
one biological object among others, part of a biological nature, which our rational faculties …

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 …

Feminist Perspectives on the Body provides an accessible introduction to this extremely
popular new area and is aimed at students from a variety of disciplines who are interested in …

Feminists have made women's bodies a focal point around which many campaigns have
been fought. The right to the autonomy of the female body has been argued in relation to …

In many fields, the body is the topic generating exciting new research and interdisciplinary
inquiry. Feminist theorists, in particular, have focused on the female body as the site where …

Psychology's renewed interest in the body, even within feminist theory, has brought with it
several philosophical and theoretical challenges. These challenges stem mainly from …

BODIES, IDENTITIES, FEMINISMS Page 1 4.1 BODIES, IDENTITIES, FEMINISMS Denise
Riley [Riley notes how 'women's experience' is underpinned by a core of identification, purity …

This collection of classic essays in feminist body studies investigates the history of the image
of the female body; from the medical'discovery'of the clitoris, to the'body politic'of Queen …