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This is a feminist and Foucauldian analysis of a variety of emerging gendered discourses.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Governing the Female Body: Three Dimensions of Power Paula Saukko & Lori Reed I. MEDIATED SELF-HEALTH 1. "It's Down to You": Psychology, Magazine Culture, and Governing Female Bodies Lisa Blackman 2. Beyond Pill Scares? Online Discussions on Genetic Thrombophilia and Gendered Contradictions of Personalised Medicine Paula Saukko 3. Gender, Pathology, Spectacle: Internet Addiction and the Cultural Organization of "Healthy" Computer Use Lori Reed II. PRIVATIZATION AND THE BODY PROPER-TY 4. Pink Ribbons Inc.: The Emergence of Cause-Related Marketing and the Corporatization of the Breast Cancer Movement Samantha King 5. Regulation through the Postfeminist Pharmacy: Promotional Discourse and Menstruation Joshua Gunn & Mary Douglas Vavrus 6. Productive Bodies: Women, Work, and Depression Kristin A. Swenson III. TRANSNATIONAL BODY POLITICS 7. "The Pill" in Puerto Rico and the Mainland United States: Negotiating Discourses of Risk and Decolonization Laura Briggs 8. Biopolitical Media: Population, Communications International, and the Governing of Reproductive Health Ronald Walter Greene & David Breshears 9. Disciplining the Ethnic Body: Latinidad, Hybridized Bodies, and Transnational Identity Angharad N. Valdivia & Isabel Molina IV. SCIENCE, NATURE AND GENDER 10. "Doing What Comes Naturally ..." Negotiating Normality in Accounts of IVF-Failure Karen Throsby 11. Feminism's Sex Wars and the Limits of Governmentality Barbara Mennel 12. Beyond XX and XY: Living Genomic Sex Ingrid Holme Contributors Index

About the Author :
Lori Reed is an independent scholar living in Washington, DC. Paula Saukko is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. She is the author of The Anorexic Self: A Personal, Political Analysis of a Diagnostic Discourse, also published by SUNY Press, and Doing Research in Cultural Studies: An Introduction to Classical and New Methodological Approaches.

Review :
"This volume is an exciting exploration ... [it] draws together a suitably diverse range of case studies to critically highlight the variety of ways in which gender and the female body are constituted as objects of knowledge and are also subject to government through discourses and practices related to health care ... It demands that the gendered nature of power becomes subject to renewed critical scrutiny." - Foucault Studies "This book brings together an important range of contemporary topics and examines an understanding of women's bodies, governmentality, and power through different social processes and concepts with relevant examples ... One of the strongest aspects of this book is its demonstration that women's bodies are subject to powerful discourses within the theaters of health and medicine in institutional settings as well as in everyday life." - H-Net Reviews (H-Histsex) "The essays in this collection argue for a richer understanding of personal choice and clearly point to the ways women's choices and understandings of body and 'self' are mitigated by social forces. This is an important work for scholars of women's studies and science and technology studies." - April Herndon, Winona State University


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781438429533
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 316
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 594 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1438429533
  • Publisher Date: 28 Jan 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Gender, Health, and Networks of Power
  • Width: 152 mm


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