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Body/politics : women and the discourses of science / edited by Mary Jacobus, Evelyn Fox Keller, Sally Shuttleworth.
- Title
- Body/politics : women and the discourses of science / edited by Mary Jacobus, Evelyn Fox Keller, Sally Shuttleworth.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 1990.
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- Description
- vii, 197 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Body Politics" focuses on the interpenetration of literary, social and scientific discourses concerning the female body.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0415901308
- 0415901316 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^89010124^
- OCLC
- 19722716
- SCSB-14235857
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library