Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice : The Rhetorics of Comparison PDF
by Carolyn Pedwell
Part of the Transformations series
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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.
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- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:07/05/2010
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:07/05/2010
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- ISBN:9781135999698