Feminism And The Body

by Londa Schiebinger (editor)

Feminism and the Body presents classic texts in feminist body studies. Intended for undergraduate and graduate students, the volume touches on the medical history of sexual differences, the political history of the body, the history of clothing and its cultural meanings, symbolic renderings of
the body, male bodies, and the body in colonial and cross-cultural contexts.

Genres: Feminism

512 pages, Paperback

First published June 22, 2000

About the author

Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science at Stanford University. She is the author of the award-winning Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (2004), among many other works.

Reviews

[Jessica Zu]

A wonderful collection of seminal articles on this subject. A must read for all women's studies' students!