Anatomy of Gender : Women's Struggle for the Body.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (288 pages)
- Women's Experience Series ; v.3 .
- Women's Experience Series .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Contributors -- The Anatomy of Gender: Dissecting Sexual Difference in the Body of Knowledge -- Section One: Representation of the Female Body -- Pornography or Misogyny? Fear and the Absurd -- On the Way to Female Imagery of God -- The Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Art -- Representation of Women in Chinese Fiction: The Female Body Subdued, Re(s)trained, (Dis)possessed -- I-less and Gaga in the West Edmonton Mall: Towards a Pedestrian Feminist Reading' -- Section Two: Repression of the Female Body -- A Suitable Case for Treatment? Premenstrual Syndrome and the Medicalization of Women's Bodies -- Sexual Difference and the Law: Premenstrual Syndrome as Legal Defense -- Assessing Reproductive Wrongs: A Feminist Social Work Perspective -- Risky Business: Medical Definitions of Pregnancy -- Images of Women in Canadian Social Policy: Em-bodying Patriarchy -- Section Three: Reclaiming the Female Body -- Representation and Resistance: Feminist Struggles against Pornography -- Knowing Ourselves as Women -- Unhiding the Hidden: Writing During the Quiet Revolution -- Black Women's Reality and Feminism: An Exploration of Race and Gender -- Self-Representation and Fictionalysis -- moving parts -- Habeas Corpus: Anatomy/ Autonomy in relation to Narcissism.
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Feminism. Sex role. Women-Social conditions. Sex discrimination against women.