Download or read book Law and Body Politics written by Jo Bridgeman and published by Dartmouth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The metaphor of the Body Politic has been drawn upon by feminists to show the saturation of the body with political meaning. This book explores the points at which law and the female body make contact and with strategies through which the nature and meaning of that contact can be reformulated.