Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism
by Elizabeth Grosz
Theories of Representation and Difference (1994)
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"Volatile Bodies demonstrates that the sexually specific body is socially constructed: biology or nature is inherently social and has no pure or natural 'origin' outside culture. Being the raw material of social and cultural organization, it is subject to the endless rewriting and inscription that constitute all sign systems. Grosz demonstrates that the theories of, among others, Freud and Lacan theorize a male body. She then turns to corporeal experiences unique to women--menstruation, show more pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, menopause--to lay the groundwork for new theories of sexed corporeality."--Back cover. show lessTags
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Elizabeth Grosz is a professor of women's and gender studies at Rutgers University.
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- Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction, Philosophy, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 305.4201 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Women Social role and status of women Standard subdivisions
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- HQ1190 .G76 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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