ISBN:
9780415497909
,
0415497906
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 172 S.
Series Statement:
Transformations: thinking through feminism
Dissertation note:
Vollst. zugl.: London, Univ., Diss., 2003
DDC:
305.4201
Keywords:
Feminism Cross-cultural studies
;
Women Cross-cultural studies
;
Feminist theory Cross-cultural studies
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Feminismus
;
Kulturvergleich
;
Frauenforschung
;
Kulturvergleich
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : feminism, culture and embodied practice : the rhetorics of comparison -- Comparing cultures : feminist theory, anti-essentialism and new humanisms -- Critical frameworks : theorising intersectionality, relationality and embodiment -- Continuums and analogues : linking 'African' female genital cutting and 'Western' body modifications -- Constitutive comparisons : producing Muslim veiling, anorexia and 'Western' fashion and beauty practices -- Weaving relational webs : theorising cultural difference and embodied practice -- Postscript.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [152]-166) and index
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