Writing on the Body Author:Katie Conboy, Nadia Medina, Sarah Stanbury Exploring the tensions between women's lived bodily experiences and the cultural meanings inscribed on the female body, this volume----complete with editors' introduction----includes classic and contemporary essays on rape, pornography, eroticism, anorexia, body building, menstruation, and maternity, and challenges racial, class, and sexual cate... more »gories.« less
Solid scholarly feminist research on the female body as the site where identity is written. Some contributors are bell hooks, Patricia J. Williams, Tania Modleski, Audre Lorde, and Judith Butler.