Feminist Theory and the Body
Subtitle: A Reader
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: January 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9780748610891
Subjects: Feminism; Sociology
First sentence: The expansive mood of the Enlightenment - the feeling that all men are by nature equal - gave middle- and lower-class men, women, Jews, Africans, and West Indians living in Europe reason to believe that they, too, might begin to share the privileges heretofore reserved for elite European men.