Vital Signs: Feminist Reconfigurations of the Bio/logical BodyMargrit Shildrick, Janet Price From anorexia, sexuality, skin, pregnancy, the mouth, menstruation, biopsychiatry and male hysteria, to the heart, this work examines the relationships between feminism, the body and biomedicine. The book uses post-conventional/post-modern theory in the area of bio/logical body and the clinic. |
Contents
Meditating My Bodies | 18 |
Sexuality and the Clinical Encounter | 30 |
Skin Colour and Tanning | 45 |
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Vital Signs: Feminist Reconfigurations of the Bio/logical Body Margrit Shildrick,Janet Price No preview available - 1998 |
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References to this book
Responding to Men in Crisis: Masculinities, Distress and the Postmodern ... Brian Taylor No preview available - 2006 |