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Title Body/politics : women and the discourses of science / edited by Mary Jacobus, Evelyn Fox Keller, Sally Shuttleworth.

Imprint New York : Routledge, 1990.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.42 B668B    Check Shelf
Description vii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents In parenthesis : immaculate conceptions and feminine desire / Mary Jacobus -- Speaking of the body : mid-Victorian constructions of female desire / Mary Poovey -- Female circulation : medical discourse and popular advertising in the mid-Victorian era / Sally Shuttleworth -- Science and women's bodies : forms of anthropological knowledge / Emily Martin -- Reading the slender body / Susan Bordo -- Feminism, medicine and the meaning of childbirth / Paula A. Treichler -- Investment strategies for the evolving portfolio of primate females / Donna Haraway -- Technophilia : technology, representation and the feminine / Mary Ann Doane -- From secrets of life to secrets of death / Evelyn Fox Keller.
Summary "Body Politics" focuses on the interpenetration of literary, social and scientific discourses concerning the female body.
Subject Women -- Physiology -- Philosophy.
Feminism.
Science in literature.
Science -- History.
Body, Human -- Psychological aspects.
Attitude to Health -- ethnology. (DNLM)D001294Q000208
Social Change. (DNLM)D012922
Sociology, Medical. (DNLM)D012962
Women's Health. (DNLM)D016387
Feminismo.
Ciencia y literatura.
Ciencia -- Historia.
Women -- Physiology -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01176878
Science in literature. (OCoLC)fst01108731
Science. (OCoLC)fst01108176
Feminism. (OCoLC)fst00922671
Frau (DE-588)4018202-2
Frauenbild (DE-588)4125057-6
Wissenschaft (DE-588)4066562-8
Körper (DE-588)4031575-7
Vrouwen.
Menselijk lichaam.
Frau.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Jacobus, Mary.
Keller, Evelyn Fox, 1936-2023
Shuttleworth, Sally, 1952-
Other Form: Online version: Body/politics. New York : Routledge, 1990 (OCoLC)623152141
ISBN 0415901308
9780415901307
0415901316 (pbk.)
9780415901314 (pbk.)
9781134976010
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