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The Body in Question

A Socio-Cultural Approach

By Alan Petersen

Why is there currently such strong academic and popular interest in ‘the body’ in contemporary societies? What factors shape our conceptions of the body, its...

Published December 14th 2006 by Routledge.

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Telling Flesh

The Substance of the Corporeal

By Vicki Kirby

In Telling Flesh, Vicki Kirby addresses a major theoretical issue at the intersection of the social sciences and feminist theory -- the separation of nature...

Published September 16th 1997 by Routledge.

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Body/Politics

Women and the Discourses of Science

Edited by Mary Jacobus, Evelyn Fox Keller, Sally Shuttleworth

Body/Politics demonstrates how many of the controversies in modern science involve or invoke the feminine body as their battleground. This groundbreaking collection addresses such scientific...

Published December 13th 1989 by Routledge.

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