Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice: The Rhetorics of Comparison

by Carolyn Pedwell

Book Overview

Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.g. 'African' female genital cutting and 'Western' cosmetic surgery) has become increasingly common as a means of countering cultural essentialism, ethnocentrism and racism.

Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice examines how cross cultural comparisons of embodied practices function...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415528887
• ISBN13: 9780415528887
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"