This book focuses on the significance of the body in contemporary feminist scholarship. The contributors offer a critical appraisal of the recent `body revival', drawing upon insights from contemporary feminist theories on gender and power to explore the subject. The book sets an agenda not only for research about the body but for an embodied perspective on the body as well.
Kathy Davis is Associate Professor of Women′s Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Utrecht in The Netherlands. She is author of
Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery (1995) and
Power Under the Microscope: Toward a Grounded Theory of Gender Relations in Medical Encounters (1988).
CONTRIBUTORS
Anna Aalten University of Amsterdam
Rachel AD Bloul ANU Canberra
Gon Buurman Amsterdam
Julia Edwards University of Glamorgan
Joanne Finkelstein Monash University
Ineke Klinge University of Utrecht
Gesa Lindeman University of Frankfurt
Harriette Marshall Staffordshire University Stoke on Trent
Linda McKie University of Aberdeen
Monica Rudberg University of Oslo
Anne Woollett University of East London, Stratford
Dubravka Zarkov Nijmegen