Carolyn Pedwell

Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice

The Rhetorics of Comparison

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780415528887
• ISBN-10: 0415528887
• Artikelnr.: 35457063

Autorenporträt

Carolyn Pedwell is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Her research interests include feminist and postcolonial theory; gender, cultural difference and 'the body'; and the transnational politics of emotion and affect. Her work has been published in Feminist Theory, Feminist Review, and Body and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Feministm, Culture and Embodied Practice: The Rhetorics of
Comparison 1. Comparing Cultures: Feminist Theory, Anti-Essentialism and
New Humanisms 2. Critical Frameworks: Intersectionality, Relationality and
Embodiment 3. Continuums and Analogues: Linking 'African' Female Genital
Cutting and 'Western' Body Modifications 4. Constitutive Comparisons:
Producing Muslim Veiling, Anorexia and 'Western' Fashion and Beauty
Practices 5. Weaving Relational Webs: Theorising Cultural Difference and
Embodied Practice