Politics of the Body
Subtitle: Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780745648880
Subjects: Human body, social aspects; Women, social conditions; Feminism
Description: "Alison Phipps constructs a political sociology of women's bodies around key debates: sexual violence, gender and Islam, sex work and motherhood. Her analysis uncovers dubious rhetorics and paradoxical allegiances, and contextualizes these within the powerful coalition of neoliberal and neoconservative frameworks. She explores how 'feminism' can be caricatured and vilified at both ends of the political spectrum, arguing that Western feminisms are now faced with complex problems of positioning in a world where gender often comes second to other political priorities."--back cover.