First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This work comprises a collection of influential readings in feminist theory. It is divided into four sections: "Reading the Body"; "Bodies in Production"; "The

The essays in this interdisciplinary collection share the conviction that modern western paradigms of knowledge and reality are gender-biased. Some contributors

This collection of classic essays in feminist body studies investigates the history of the image of the female body; from the medical 'discovery' of the clitori

How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human bodies? What does it mean to be human in these times, with bo