A History of Women's Bodies
Author | : Edward Shorter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Accouchement - Histoire |
ISBN | : 9780140225181 |
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Author | : Edward Shorter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Accouchement - Histoire |
ISBN | : 9780140225181 |
Author | : Sally Banes |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1134833172 |
Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective. Setting the creation of specific dances in socio-political and cultural contexts, Sally Banes shows that choreographers have created representations of women that are shaped by - and that in part shape - society's continuing debates about sexuality and female identity. Broad in its scope and compelling in its argument Dancing Women: * provides a series of re-readings of the canon, from Romantic and Russian Imperial ballet to contemporary ballet and modern dance * investigates the gaps between plot and performance that create sexual and gendered meanings * examines how women's agency is created in dance through aspects of choreographic structure and style * analyzes a range of women's images - including brides, mistresses, mothers, sisters, witches, wraiths, enchanted princesses, peasants, revolutionaries, cowgirls, scientists, and athletes - as well as the creation of various women's communities on the dance stage * suggests approaches to issues of gender in postmodern dance Using an interpretive strategy different from that of other feminist dance historians, who have stressed either victimization or celebration of women, Banes finds a much more complex range of cultural representations of gender identities.
Author | : Christiane Northrup |
Publisher | : Bantam Dell Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 753 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780553374667 |
Based on the connection between physical and spiritual health, a popular holistic guide to alternative medicine for women contains an alphabetical list of women's ailments and conditions, including fibroids, menstruation, vaginitis, and menopause. Reprint.
Author | : Margo Maine |
Publisher | : Gurze Books |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 0936077344 |
Written for activists and educators, this cultural critique of female body image discusses the topic as it relates to sports, fashion, advertising, and propaganda, and offers practical strategies for those willing to fight unhealthy or unrealistic female images in society. Original. Tour.
Author | : Boston Women's Health Book Collective |
Publisher | : Touchstone |
Total Pages | : 848 |
Release | : 2005-04-19 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780743256117 |
Author | : Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-09-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781137468147 |
Christian theology has been complicit in justifying the war on women, but it also has resources to help finally declare peace in the war on women. War itself has come to resemble the war on women, and thus strategies to end the war on women, supported by new Christian theological interpretations, will also help end today's endless wars.
Author | : Jane Arthurs |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1999-03-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1441104526 |
The articles in this volume consider the prevailing standards of feminine decorum, and how these are being played with and challenged by various media. This is a collection of essays which focuses on the representation of women's bodies in historical and contemporary cultures. It discusses recent books on the subject, and compares the two different approaches to the body adopted by the soft-porn magazine "For Women", and the women's monthly "Cosmopolitan". It also examines TV cult figures, such as the "comic body" exemplified by comedienne Joe Brand, and situation comedies such as "Absolutely Fabulous".
Author | : Helena Michie |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0195362993 |
Examining the works of such Victorian writers as the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy, this study discusses codes and taboos about the female body and explores how female sexuality was represented in Victorian literary and non-literary genres, such as painting, etiquette books and pornography.
Author | : Edward Shorter |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1351471252 |
What has been the source of women's oppression by men? Shorter argues that women were victimized by their own bodies. Exploring five centuries of medical records and folklore from Europe and the US, he shows how pregnancy, childbirth, and gynecological disease have kept women in positions of social
Author | : Vivienne Anderson |
Publisher | : Women's Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : |
This collection deepens our understandings of the ways women are controlled through their bodies. Despite the many inroads made over the past decades, femininity and womanhood continue to be constructed through cultural, political and social ideals. Women's Bodies/Women's Lives is an excellent resource for a powerful movement that can challenge and resist the dominant ideas in society influencing women's sense of self.