Davis / Grewal / Kaplan The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves

How Feminism Travels across Borders
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9025-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

The story of how the feminist classic Our Bodies, Ourselves has been adapted and reworked by women of different cultures around the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Kathy

Grewal, Inderpal

Kaplan, Caren

Wiegman, Robyn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part I: The Book and Its Travels

1. OBOS in the United States: The Enigma of a Feminist “Success Story” 19

2. OBOS Abroad: From “Center” to “Periphery” and Back 50

3. Between Empowerment and Bewitchment: The Myth of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 85

4. Reclaiming Women’s Bodies: Colonialist Trope or Critical Epistemology? 120

5. Creating Feminist Subjects: The Reader and the Text 142

Part III: Transnational Body/Politics

6. Oppositional Translations and Imagined Communities: Adapting OBOS 169

7. Transnational Knowledges, Transnational Politics 197

Appendix 1. Foreign-Language Editions of OBOS 214

Appendix 2. Books Inspired by OBOS 217

Appendix 3. Translations and Adaptations of OBOS in Progress 218

Appendix 4. Translations and Adaptations of OBOS Seeking Funds for Start-up 219

Notes 221

Bibliography 243

Index 273

Über Autor(innen)

Kathy Davis is a Senior Researcher at the Research Institute for History and Culture at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Her books include The Handbook of Gender and Women’s Studies (coedited with Mary Evans and Judith Lorber), Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences: Cultural Studies on Cosmetic Surgery, and Embodied Practices: Feminist Perspectives on the Body.