Feminism and American Literary History: Essays

by Nina Baym

Book Overview

Bodies may be currently fashionable in social and feminist theory, but their insides are not. Biological bodies always seem to drop out of debates about the body and its importance in Western culture. They are assumed to be fixed, their workings uninteresting or irrelevant to theory. Birke argues that these static views of biology do not serve feminist politics well. As a trained biologist, she uses ideas in anatomy and physiology to develop the feminist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813518555
• ISBN13: 9780813518558
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"