Phipps The Politics of the Body

Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8275-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, E-Book

The body is a site of impassioned, fraught and complex debate inthe West today. In one political moment, left-wingers, academicsand feminists have defended powerful men accused of sex crimes,positioned topless pictures in the tabloids as empowering, andopposed them for sexualizing breasts and undermining their'natural' function. At the same time they have beencriticized by extreme-right groups for ignoring honour killings andother 'culture-based' forms of violence against women.How can we make sense of this varied terrain?
In this important and challenging new book, Alison Phippsconstructs a political sociology of women's bodies around keydebates: sexual violence, gender and Islam, sex work andmotherhood. Her analysis uncovers dubious rhetorics and paradoxicalallegiances, and contextualizes these within the powerful coalitionof neoliberal and neoconservative frameworks. She explores how'feminism' can be caricatured and vilified at both endsof the political spectrum, arguing that Western feminisms are nowfaced with complex problems of positioning in a world where genderoften comes second to other political priorities.
This book provides a welcome investigation into Western politicsaround women's bodies, and will be particularly useful toscholars and upper-level students of sociology, political science,gender studies and cultural studies, as well as to anyoneinterested in how bodies become politicized.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Phipps, Alison

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction 1
1 Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism: Framing the Politics of the Body 7
2 Sexual Violence and the Politics of Victimhood 20
3 Gender and Islam in a Neoconservative World 49
4 The Commodified Politics of the Sex Industry 76
5 The New Reproductive Regimes of Truth 102
Conclusion 132
Notes 139
Bibliography 143
Further Reading 184
Index 200

Über Autor(innen)

Alison Phipps is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Director of Gender Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. Between 2009 and 2012, she was Chair of the Feminist and Women's Studies Association of the UK and Ireland.