
Volatile Bodies
Autor: Elizabeth A. Grosz, Professor Elizabeth Grosz Category: gender/feminism, Social Science Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253208620 Seiten: 278
Beschreibung:
„Volatile Bodies demonstrates that the sexually specific body is socially constructed: biology or nature is inherently social and has no pure or natural ‚origin‘ outside culture. Being the raw material of social and cultural organization, it is subject to the endless rewriting and inscription that constitute all sign systems. Grosz demonstrates that the theories of, among others, Freud and Lacan theorize a male body. She then turns to corporeal experiences unique to women–menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, menopause–to lay the groundwork for new theories of sexed corporeality.“–Back cover.