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The politics of women's bodies : sexuality, appearance, and behavior / edited by Rose Weitz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xii, 299 pages ; 24 cm. ; pbkISBN:
  • 0195149777
  • 9780195149777
  • 9780195149777:
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42 21
LOC classification:
  • .P56 2003
NLM classification:
  • 2003 D-880
  • HQ 1206
Other classification:
  • 71.33
Contents:
A history of women's bodies / Rose Weitz -- Believing is seeing: biology as ideology / Judith Lorber -- Foucault, femininity, and the modernization of patriarchal power / Sandra Lee Bartky -- Women and medicalization: a new perspective / Catherine Kohler Riessman -- From the "muscle moll" to the "butch" ballplayer: mannishness, lesbianism, and homophobia in U.S. women's sports / Susan K. Cahn -- Menarche and the (hetero)sexualization of the female body / Janet Lee -- Daring to desire: culture and the bodies of adolescent girls / Deborah L. Tolman -- Selling hot pussy: representations of black female sexuality in the cultural marketplace / bell hooks -- Women and their hair: seeking power through resistance and accommodation / Rose Weitz.
Breasted experience: the look and the feeling / Iris Marion Young -- Women and the knife: cosmetic surgery and the colonization of women's bodies / Kathryn Pauly Morgan -- Medicalization of racial features: Asian-American women and cosmetic surgery / Eugenia Kaw -- Mirror mirror / Marcia Ann Gillespie -- Casing my joints: a private and public story of arthritis / Mary Lowenthal Felstiner -- Becoming a gendered body: practices of preschools / Karin A. Martin -- "Holding back": negotiating a glass ceiling on women's muscular strength / Shari L. Dworkin -- Till death us do part / Margo Wilson and Martin Daly -- Meno-boomers and moral guardians: an exploration of the cultural construction of menopause / Joy Webster Barbre -- The future of reproductive choice for poor women and women of color / Dorothy E. Roberts -- "Fetal rights": a new assault on feminism / Katha Pollitt.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 305.42 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 81329

10.00

Includes bibliographical references.

A history of women's bodies / Rose Weitz -- Believing is seeing: biology as ideology / Judith Lorber -- Foucault, femininity, and the modernization of patriarchal power / Sandra Lee Bartky -- Women and medicalization: a new perspective / Catherine Kohler Riessman -- From the "muscle moll" to the "butch" ballplayer: mannishness, lesbianism, and homophobia in U.S. women's sports / Susan K. Cahn -- Menarche and the (hetero)sexualization of the female body / Janet Lee -- Daring to desire: culture and the bodies of adolescent girls / Deborah L. Tolman -- Selling hot pussy: representations of black female sexuality in the cultural marketplace / bell hooks -- Women and their hair: seeking power through resistance and accommodation / Rose Weitz.

Breasted experience: the look and the feeling / Iris Marion Young -- Women and the knife: cosmetic surgery and the colonization of women's bodies / Kathryn Pauly Morgan -- Medicalization of racial features: Asian-American women and cosmetic surgery / Eugenia Kaw -- Mirror mirror / Marcia Ann Gillespie -- Casing my joints: a private and public story of arthritis / Mary Lowenthal Felstiner -- Becoming a gendered body: practices of preschools / Karin A. Martin -- "Holding back": negotiating a glass ceiling on women's muscular strength / Shari L. Dworkin -- Till death us do part / Margo Wilson and Martin Daly -- Meno-boomers and moral guardians: an exploration of the cultural construction of menopause / Joy Webster Barbre -- The future of reproductive choice for poor women and women of color / Dorothy E. Roberts -- "Fetal rights": a new assault on feminism / Katha Pollitt.

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