Embodied Practices

By - EMB

Floor - Floor 1

Published - Sage, London, 1997

ISBN 10 - 0761953639

ISBN 13 - 9780761953630

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Self-perception in women

Shelf No - 14

Call Number - 305.4 EMB

Physical Description - ix, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes - Includes index

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This book focuses on the significance of the body in contemporary feminist scholarship. In recent years, the body has become a `hot item' in both contemporary social theory and research. This renewed interest has received a mixed reaction from feminists. While the body may be back, the `new' body theory often proves to be just as disembodied as it ever was. The body revival seems to be less an attempt to re-embody masculinist science than just another expression of the same condition which evoked the feminist critique in the first place: a flight from femininity and everything that is associated with it in western culture. Embodied Practices offers a critical appraisal of the recent `body revival', drawing upon insi

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