Figurations: Child, Bodies, Worlds (Next Wave: New Directions in Womens Studies)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780822329589
Subjects: Children; Cultural studies; Women's studies; Social Science; Sociology; Children's Studies; Gender Studies/Feminist Theory; Science Studies
Description: Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure. Castañeda shows how this malleability is itself generated & how the resulting historically, geographically & culturaly specific figures are put to widely divergent uses, often to a very powerful effect.