"This book uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the ways in which sexual difference can be understood as an encounter with otherness through the abjected, investigating social discourses and unconscious anxieties around 'monstrous' women throughout history and how they …
Muscular women have long been the focus of public scrutiny, cultural contempt and fascination.?Sculpting the Woman? interrogates the protected status of femininity as it has been rendered irrelevant to the history, theory and politics of the muscular woman. This highly original …
Covering literary, visual and performative expressions of culture, this volume correlates the conjunctions of nation building, gender and representation in late 19th- and early 20th-century China and Japan.
Uniquely covering literary, visual and performative expressions of culture, this volume aims to correlate the conjunctions of nation building, gender and representation in late 19th and early 20th century China and Japan
Alternative femininities: body, age and identity
Imagine a world where the oppressive, over-feminized images of women from advertising, television, films, and magazines have re-armed themselves with army boots, body modifications, and flamboyant hair. Is this just another fairy tale, and if so, why cant it be a reality? In Alt…
Examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness and brings alive feminist theories about aging, beauty work, femininity, and the body.
"When an unexpected medical crisis sends [the author] on a deeply personal journey to tease out the intersections between sexuality and creativity, she discovers, much to her own astonishment, an increasing body of scientific evidence that suggests that the vagina is not merely …
"A nuanced understanding of state violence and gender (in)equalities must consider the varied and contradictory experiences of armed civilian women, female soldiers, and opponents of gun possession. How is ?feminism? and ?femininity? negotiated in the early 21st century by civil…
"This book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932 ... [examining] the many life experiences of these women and how their position changed, both personally and professionally, over this long period of …
The author examines how extensively women's bodies and minds became "battlegrounds" in the U.S. fight for victory in World War II. Women were led to believe that the nation's success depended on their efforts, not just on factory floors, but at their dressing tables, bathroom si…
