Feminist Perspectives on the Body

Feminist Perspectives on the Body bridges the gap between the exisiting high level, theoretical texts which have helped to develop this extremely popular new area and the growing number of students from a variety of disciplines who are interested in gaining a basic understanding of the key issues and topics involved.

1. Introduction
2. Reproductive Bodies
3. Disciplined Bodies
4. Sexy Bodies
5. Bodies Politic
6. Working Bodies
7. Body Technologies
8. Rethinking Bodies

• Explores the western world's construction of the body as a theoretical, philosophical and political concept, the body and reproduction, the constriction of the body, medicalisation, cosmetic surgery and eating disorders, the private and public body, working bodies and new ways of thinking about the body.
• Combines theory with case studies and real world examples.