num_pages: 180
description: From one of our most outspoken feminist critics, this collection explores various ways in which the body can be rethought of as a site of knowledge rather than as a medium to move beyond or dominate. Moving between a theoretical and confessional stance, Gallop explores Sade's relation to mothers both in his novels and his life; Barthe's The Pleasure of the Text; Freud's work, read not as a psychological text but as a literary endeavor and from a woman's point of view; and Luce Irigarary's famous This Sex Which Is Not One.
language: English
title: Thinking Through the Body
titlecomplete: Thinking Through the Body
genres: Nonfiction, Feminism, Womens
ratings_count: 27
series: Gender and Culture Series
publisher: Columbia University Press