The politics of women's bodies
Subtitle: sexuality, appearance, and behavior
By: [edited by] Rose Weitz.
Contributors: Weitz, Rose, 1952-
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780195390636
Subjects: Women -- Psychology; Women -- Physiology; Women -- Social conditions; Human body -- Social aspects; Human body -- Political aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A history of women's bodies / Rose Weitz; title: Believing is seeing : biology as ideology / Judith Lorber; title: Becoming a gendered body : practices of preschools / Karin A. Martin; title: Women and medicalization : a new perspective / Catherine Kohler Riessman; title: Affronting reason / Cheryl Chase; title: Foucault, femininity, and the modernization of patriarchal fever / Sandra Lee Bartky; title: Menarche and the (hetero)sexualization of the female body / Janet Lee; title: Daring to desire : culture and the bodies of adolescent girls / Deborah L. Tolman; title: "Get your freak on" : sex, babies, and images of Black femininity / Patricia Hill Collins; title: Brain, brow, and booty : Latina iconicity in U.S. popular culture / Isabel Molina Guzmán and Angharad N. Valdivia; title: "So full of myself as a chick" : Goth women, sexual independence, and gender egalitarianism / Amy C. Wilkins; title: Breasted experience : the look and feeling / Iris Marion Young; title: Designing women : cultural hegemony and the exercise of power among women who have undergone elective mammoplasty / Patricia Gagné and Deanna McGaughey; title: Women and their hair : seeking power through resistance and accomodation / Rose Weitz; title: Branded with infamy : inscriptions of poverty and class in the United States / Vivyan C. Adair; title: Letting ourselves go : making room for the fat body in feminist scholarship / Cecilia Hartley; title: Rip tide : swimming through life with rheumatoid arthritis / Andrea Avery; title: Reclaiming the female body : women body modifiers and feminist debates / Victoria Pitts; title: From the "muscle moll" to the "butch" ballplayer : mannishness, lesbianism, and homophobia in U.S. women's sport / Susan K. Cahn; title: "Holding back" : negotiating a glass ceiling on women's muscular strength / Shari L. Dworkin; title: Compulsive heterosexuality : masculinity and dominance / C.J. Pascoe; title: Till death do us part / Margo Wilson and Martin Daly; title: Backlash and continuity : the political trajectory of fetal rights / Rachel Roth.