{"product_id":"feminism-culture-and-embodied-practice-carolyn-pedwell-9780415497909","title":"Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice: The Rhetorics of Comparison","description":"\u003cp\u003eWithin 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeminism, Culture and Embodied Practice\u003c\/em\u003e examines how cross cultural comparisons of embodied practices function as a rhetorical device - with particular theoretical, social and political effects - in a range of contemporary feminist texts. It asks: Why and how are cross-cultural links among these practices drawn by feminist theorists and commentators, and what do these analogies do? What knowledges, hierarchies and figurations do these comparisons produce, disrupt and\/or reify in feminist theory, and how do such effects resonate within popular culture? Taking a relational web approach that focuses on unravelling the binary threads that link specific embodied practices within a wider representational community, this book highlights how we depend on and affect one another across cultural and geo-political contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is valuable reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers in Gender Studies, Postcolonial or Race Studies, Cultural and Media Studies, and other related disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carolyn Pedwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415497906\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415497909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2010 pg. 155","brand":"Carolyn Pedwell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136093663487,"sku":"9780415497909","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ac3b7906-1c68-46f9-8d74-552b3012d737.jpg?v=1770160466","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/feminism-culture-and-embodied-practice-carolyn-pedwell-9780415497909","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}