The woman in the body

Beacon Press

1987

xi, 276 p.

9780807046050

Problems and Methods --The Familiar and the Exotic --Fragmentation and Gender --Science as a Cultural System --Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Menstruation and Menopause --Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Birth --Women's Vantage Point --Self and Body Image --Menstruation, Work, and Class --Premenstrual Syndrome, Work Discipline, and Anger --Birth, Resistance, Race, and Class --The Creation of New Birth Imagery --Menopause, Power, and Heat --Consciousness and Ideology --Class and Resistance --The Embodiment of Oppositions.

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