Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice
The Rhetorics of Comparison
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
Av Carolyn Pedwell, UK.) Pedwell, Carolyn (Carolyn Pedwell is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University
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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 cross-cultural links among these practices drawn by feminist theorists and commentators, and what do these analogies do? What knowledges, hierarchies and figurations do these comparisons produce, disrupt and/or reify in feminist theory, and how do such effects resonate within popular culture? Taking a relational web approach that focuses on unravelling the binary threads that link specific embodied practices within a wider representational community, this book highlights how we depend on and affect one another across cultural and geo-political contexts.This book is valuable reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers in Gender Studies, Postcolonial or Race Studies, Cultural and Media Studies, and other related disciplines.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2012-01-31
- Mått156 x 234 x 10 mm
- Vikt340 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieTransformations
- Antal sidor186
- FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
- ISBN9780415528887