Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory / Edition 7

by Katie Conboy, Nadia Medina, Sarah Stanbury

Overview

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 representations of difference and identity are inscribed. Drawn from a broad range of disciplines, Writing on the Body explores the tensions between women's lived bodily experiences and the cultural meanings inscribed on the female body. The volume includes classic and contemporary essays on rape, pornography, eroticism, anorexia, body building, menstruation, and maternity, and challenges racial, class and sexual categories. Complemented by the editors' introduction, Writing on the Body is a comprehensive sourcebook on the major theoretical positions and critical trends surrounding the female body.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231105453
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	04/14/1997
Series:	Gender and Culture Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 5.90(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Katie Conboy is associate professor of English at Stonehill College.

Nadia Medina is lecturer in the department of English and director of the Academic Resource Center at Tufts University.

Sarah Stanbury is associate professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Katie Conboy, Nadia Medina, Sarah Stanbury
Part 1 Reading the Body
1 Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Menstruation and Menopause, Emily Martin
2 Rape: On Coercion and Consent, Catharine A. MacKinnon
3 Mothers, Monsters, and Machines, Rosi Braidotti
4 Corporeal Representation in / and the Body Politic, Moira Gatens
5 The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity, Susan Bordo
Part 2 Bodies in Production
6 Selling Hot Pussy: Representations of Black Female Sexuality in the Cutural Marketplace, Bell Hooks
7 Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power, Sandra Lee Bartky
8 On Being the Object of Property, Patricia J. Williams
9 Film and the Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator, Mary Ann Doane
10 The Body and Cinema: Some Problems for Feminism, Annette Kuhn
11 Cinema and the Dark Continent: Race and Gender in Popular Film, Tania Modleski
Part 3 The Body Speaks
12 Ain't I a Woman? Sojourner Truth
13 La consciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness, Gloria Anzaldua
14 This Sex which is Not One, Luce Irigaray
15 Hysteria, Psuchoanalysis, and Feminism: The Case of Anna O., Dianne Hunter
16 Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
17 The Persistence of Vision, Donna Haraway
18 Carnal Acts, Nancy Mairs
Part 4 Body on Stage
19 One is Not Born a Woman, Monique Wittig
20 Female Grotesques: Carnival and Theory, Mary Russo
21 THe Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto, Sandy Stone
22 A Provoking Agent: The Pornography and Performance Art of Annie Sprinkle, Linda Williams
23 Tracking the Vampire, Sue-Ellen Case
24 Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory, Judith Butler
Suggestions for Further Reading
About the Contributors