Bodily discursions : genders, representations, technologies / edited by Deborah S. Wilson and Christine Moneera Laennec.

Other author Wilson, Deborah S., 1955-
Other author Laennec, Christine Moneera, 1960-
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1997.
Descriptionxii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSUNY series, postmodern culture
SUNY series in postmodern culture. ^A682667
Contents Female bodies misbehaving: mortification in early modern English domestic texts / Torri L. Thompson -- Romance, finance, and the marketable woman: the economics of femininity in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century English novels / Julie Shaffer -- Molding women's bodies: the surgeon as sculptor / Alice E. Adams -- The "Assembly-line love goddess": women and the machine aesthetic in fashion photography, 1918-1940 / Christine Moneera Laennec -- Technologies of misogyny: the transparent maternal body and alternate reproductions in Frankenstein, Dracula, and some selected media discourses / Deborah S. Wilson -- Sexual silencing: anesthetizing women's voices in childbirth, 1910-1960 / Cynthia Huff -- Locke, disembodied ideas, and rhetoric that matters / Catherine Hobbs -- "I've got you under my skin": cyber(sexed) bodies in cyberpunk fictions / Cathy Peppers -- Will the reel woman in Body double please stand up? / Roberta Schreyer -- Women and AIDS: bodily representations, political repercussions / Susanmarie Harrington -- Conflicts in AIDS discourse: Foucault, surgeon generals, and the [gay men's] healthcare crisis / Angela Wall.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [245]-262) and indexes.
LCCN 96033798
ISBN0791431878 (alk. paper)
ISBN0791431886 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks BF697.5.B63 B59 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold