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.