Feminism and the body

Title Page......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Notes on Contributors......Page 7
Introduction -- Londa Schiebinger......Page 11
SCIENTIFIC (MIS) REPRESENTATIONS......Page 14
THE BODY POLITIC......Page 17
EMBODIED IDEALS......Page 21
MASCULINITIES......Page 24
RESTRAINED BODIES......Page 25
Part I. Scientific (Mis) representations......Page 33
INTRODUCTION......Page 35
SEX DIFFERENCES AND THE RISE OF MODERN ANATOMY, 1600-1750......Page 37
SEX IS MORE THAN SKIN DEEP......Page 41
MAN (WHITE AND EUROPEAN) THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS: WOMEN AS CHILDREN AND PRIMITIVES......Page 50
‘SOCIAL INEQUALITY AS NATURAL LAW’......Page 55
2. ‘Amor Veneris, vel Dulcedo Appeletur’ -- Thomas W. Laqueur......Page 68
FREUD AND HISTORY’S CLITORIS......Page 69
DID COLUMBUS DISCOVER THE CLITORIS?......Page 75
THE CLITORIS AS SOCIAL PROBLEM......Page 85
POSTSCRIPT......Page 91
3. The Birth of Sex Hormones -- Nelly Oudshoorn......Page 97
HOW THE CONCEPT OF SEX HORMONES ORIGINATED......Page 98
THE EMERGENCE OF SEX ENDOCRINOLOGY......Page 102
SEX HORMONES AS DUALISTIC AGENTS OF SEX......Page 105
SEX- SPECIFIC ORIGIN......Page 107
SOURCE AND IDENTITY OF ‘HETEROSEXUAL HORMONES’......Page 110
THE FUNCTION OF HORMONES......Page 113
TERMINOLOGY AND CLASSIFICATION......Page 117
ON MASCULINE WOMEN AND FEMININE MEN......Page 119
CONCLUSIONS......Page 122
4. Doubtful Sex -- Alice Domurat Dreger......Page 128
TALES OF TWO HERMAPHRODITES......Page 129
THE INTOLERANCE OF HERMAPHRODITES AND THE AGE OF GONADS......Page 134
THE ORDERING OF HERMAPHRODITES......Page 141
CURRENT- DAY EXPLANATIONS AND TYPING......Page 146
THE QUESTION OF FREQUENCY......Page 151
BODY PAINTING......Page 154
Part II. The Body Politic......Page 163
I......Page 165
II......Page 176
III......Page 184
6. Freedom of Dress in Revolutionary France -- Lynn Hunt......Page 192
7. Gender, Race, and Nation: The Comparative Anatomy of \'Hottentot\' Women in Europe, 1815-1817 -- Anne Fausto-Sterling......Page 213
INTRODUCTION......Page 214
CONSTRUCTING THE HOTTENTOT BEFORE 1800......Page 215
CONSTRUCTING THE HOTTENTOT IN THE FRENCH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY......Page 217
IN SEARCH OF SARAH BARTMANN......Page 223
CONSTRUCTING THE (NONWHITE) FEMALE......Page 228
CONCLUSION......Page 236
8. Hard Labor: Women, Childbirth, and Resistance in British Caribbean Slave Societies -- Barbara Bush......Page 244
Women in the Plantation Economy......Page 245
Female Slave Fertility: An Enduring Enigma......Page 250
Slave Culture, Childbirth, and Resistance......Page 254
Part III. Embodied Ideals......Page 273
9. The Slipped Chiton -- Marina Warner......Page 275
Introduction......Page 303
Data Sources and Arguments of Relevance......Page 305
The Domestication of Plants......Page 308
CONCLUSIONS......Page 316
Part IV. Masculinities......Page 325
11. I Could Have Retched All Night: Charles Darwin and His Body -- Janet Browne......Page 327
The Illnesses......Page 330
The Body......Page 337
12. The Jewish Foot: A Foot-Note to the Jewish Body -- Sander L. Gilman......Page 365
13. The Ideal Couple: A Question of Size? -- Sabine Gieske (Barbara Harshav, Translator)......Page 385
The Ideal Couple......Page 386
Rules of Seeing......Page 387
The Middle- Class Gender Project......Page 389
Body Discourse......Page 395
The Middle- Class Man Grown Up......Page 398
Summary......Page 400
Part V. Restrained Bodies......Page 405
14. The Anthropometry of Barbie: Unsettling Ideals of the Feminine Body in Popular Culture -- J. Urla and A. C. Swedlund......Page 407
A DOLL IS BORN......Page 409
BARBIE IS A SURVIVOR......Page 413
THE MEASURED BODY: NORMS AND IDEALS......Page 417
THE ANTHROPOMETRY OF BARBIE: TURNING THE TABLES......Page 423
OUR BARBIES, OUR SELVES......Page 428
15. Foot-Binding in Neo-Confucian China and the Appropriation of Female Labor -- C. Fred Blake......Page 439
THE EMBODIED SELF AND THE MANAGEMENT OF SPACE......Page 441
THE SOCIAL BODY AND THE RHETORIC OF FOOT- BINDING......Page 452
THE BODY POLITIC AND THE INCORPORATION OF FEMALE LABOR......Page 459
CONCLUSION......Page 468
16. The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling -- Nilüfer Göle......Page 475
SOCIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF VEILING......Page 477
AGENCY, CONFLICTUALITY AND SELF- REFLEXIVITY......Page 481
WEAK HISTORICITY AND WESTERN MODERNITY......Page 486
CIVILIZING ‘KEMALIST’ WOMEN......Page 488
‘ISLAM IS BEAUTIFUL’: THE QUEST FOR A NEW DISTINCTION......Page 490
AUTHENTICITY AND OCCIDENTALISM......Page 492
WOMAN’S PERSONALITY OR ISLAMIC COMMUNALISM......Page 495
Further Reading......Page 502
Index......Page 507