ISBN:
9780415497909
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 172 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Transformations
Series Statement:
Transformations Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice : The Rhetorics of Comparison
DDC:
305.4201
Keywords:
Feminist theory Cross-cultural studies
;
Women Cross-cultural studies
;
Feminism Cross-cultural studies
;
Feminism
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.g. 'African' female genital cutting and 'Western' cosmetic surgery) has become increasingly common as a means of countering cultural essentialism, ethnocentrism and racism. Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice examines how cross cultural comparisons of embodied practices function as a rhetorical device - with particular theoretical, social and political effects - in a range of contemporary feminist texts. It asks: Why and how are c
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Feminism, culture and embodied practice: The rhetorics of comparison; 1 Comparing cultures: Feminist theory, anti-essentialism and new humanisms; 2 Critical frameworks: Theorising intersectionality, relationality and embodiment; 3 Continuums and analogues: Linking 'African' female genital cutting and 'Western' body modifications; 4 Constitutive comparisons: Producing Muslim veiling, anorexia and 'Western' fashion and beauty practices; 5 Weaving relational webs: Theorising cultural difference and embodied practice
Description / Table of Contents:
6 PostscriptNotes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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