Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (Theories of Representation and Difference)
By Elizabeth Grosz.
Description
The location of the author’s investigations, the body itself rather than the sphere of subjective representations of self and of function in cultures, is wholly new.... I believe this work will be a landmark in future feminist thinking." ―Alphonso LingisThis is a text of rare erudition and intellectual force. It will not only introduce feminists to an enriching set of theoretical perspectives but sets a high critical standard for feminist dialogues on the status of the body." ―Judith Butler Volatile Bodies demonstrates that the sexually specific body is socially constructed:...
ISBN(s)
0253208629, 9780253208620
