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Women's Bodies

Cultural Representation and Identity

Jane Arthurs, Jean Grimshaw (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

1999
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Verlag)
978-0-304-33962-4 (ISBN)

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A collection of essays which focuses on the representation of women's bodies in historical and contemporary cultures. This book compares the two different approaches to the body adopted by the soft-porn magazine "For Women", and the women's monthly "Cosmopolitan", and also examines TV cult figures.

This is a collection of essays which focuses on the representation of women's bodies in historical and contemporary cultures. It discusses recent books on the subject, and compares the two different approaches to the body adopted by the soft-porn magazine "For Women", and the women's monthly "Cosmopolitan". It also examines TV cult figures, such as the "comic body" exemplified by comedienne Joe Brand, and situation comedies such as "Absolutely Fabulous".

The body, sense and sensation in modernity, Michelle Henning; sexual bodies in the Victorian fin-de-siecle; revolting women - the body in comic performance; touring bodies; all in the best possible taste - talking dirty in women's magazines; working out with Merleau Ponty; is there life without mirrors?; sex in time - towards a time-situated model of gender; Grace's beard - some questions concerning lesbian visibility.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.1999
Reihe/Serie	Sexual politics
Zusatzinfo	8pp b&w plates
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 216 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-304-33962-8 / 0304339628
ISBN-13	978-0-304-33962-4 / 9780304339624
Zustand	Neuware