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Feminism and the body
- Title
- Feminism and the body / edited by Londa Schiebinger.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 01-18500 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Schiebinger, Londa L.
- Description
- ix, 500 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- Oxford readings in feminism
- Alternative Title
- Feminism & the body
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 492-496) and index.
- Contents
- Skeletons in the closet: the first illustrations of the female skeleton in eighteenth-century anatomy / Londa Schiebinger -- 'Amor veneris, vel dulcedo appeletur' / Thomas W. Laqueur -- The birth of sex hormones / Nelly Oudshoorn -- Doubtful sex / Alice Domurat Dreger -- Icons of divinity: portraits of Elizabeth I / Andrew Belsey and Catherine Belsey -- Freedom of dress in revolutionary France / Lynn Hunt -- Gender, race, and nation: the comparative anatomy of 'Hottentot' women in Europe, 1815-1817 / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Hard labor: women, childbirth, and resistance in British Caribbean slave societies / Barbara Bush -- The slipped chiton / Marina Warner -- The development of horticulture in the eastern woodlands of North America: women's role / Patty Jo Watson and Mary C. Kennedy -- I could have retched all night: Charles Darwin and his body / Janet Browne -- The Jewish foot: a foot-note to the Jewish body / Sander L. Gilman -- The ideal couple: a question of size? / Sabine Gieske -- The anthropometry of Barbie: unsettling ideals of the feminine body in popular culture / Jacqueline Urla and Alan C. Swedlund -- Foot-binding in neo-Confucian China and the appropriation of female labor / C. Fred Blake -- The forbidden modern: civilization and veiling / Nilüfer Göle.
- Call Number
- JFD 01-18500
- ISBN
- 0198731914 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00038537
- OCLC
- 43811036
- Title
- Feminism and the body / edited by Londa Schiebinger.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Series
- Oxford readings in feminism
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 492-496) and index.
- Added Author
- Schiebinger, Londa L.
- Cover Title
- Feminism & the body
- Research Call Number
- JFD 01-18500