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Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory » (7th Edition)

Book cover image of Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory by Katie Conboy

Authors: Katie Conboy (Editor), Nadia Medina, Nadia Medina (Editor), Sarah Stanbury
ISBN-13: 9780231105453, ISBN-10: 0231105452
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: March 1997
Edition: 7th Edition

Author Biography: Katie Conboy

Katies Conboy is associate professor of English at Stonehill College.

Nadia Medina is lecturer in the department of English and director of the Academic Resource Center at Tufts University.

Sarah Stanbury is associate professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross.

Book Synopsis

Exploring the tensions between women's lived bodily experiences and the cultural meanings inscribed on the female body, this volume——complete with editors' introduction——includes classic and contemporary essays on rape, pornography, eroticism, anorexia, body building, menstruation, and maternity, and challenges racial, class, and sexual categories.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Menstruation and Menopause	15
2	Rape: On Coercion and Consent	42
3	Mothers, Monsters, and Machines	59
4	Corporeal Representation in/and the Body Politic	80
5	The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity	90
6	Selling Hot Pussy: Representations of Black Female Sexuality in the Cultural Marketplace	113
7	Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power	129
8	On Being the Object of Property	155
9	Film and the Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator	176
10	The Body and Cinema: Some Problems for Feminism	195
11	Cinema and the Dark Continent: Race and Gender in Popular Film	208
12	Ain't I a Woman?	231
13	La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness	233
14	This Sex Which Is Not One	248
15	Hysteria, Psychoanalysis, and Feminism: The Case of Anna O.	257
16	Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power	277
17	The Persistence of Vision	283
18	Carnal Acts	296
19	One is Not Born a Woman	309
20	Female Grotesques: Carnival and Theory	318
21	The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto	337
22	A Provoking Agent: The Pornography and Performance Art of Annie Sprinkle	360
23	Tracking the Vampire	380
24	Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory	401
	Suggestions for Further Reading	419
	About the Contributors	427