Drawing on postmodernist analyses, Leaky Bodies and Boundaries presents a feminist
investigation into the marginalization of women within western discourse that denies female …

This innovative and adventurous work, now in paperback, uses broadly feminist and
postmodernist modes of analysis to explore what motivates damaging attitudes and …

Price and Shildrick bring together over 40 important feminist thinkers to discuss key
arguments and issues concerning the body. It includes articles on race, cyberspace, theatre …

The notion of sexuality has been problematised by critical cultural and queer theory to the
extent that critical disability studies (CDS) acknowledges the need to complicate the …

Theories of postmodernism and the tool of deconstruction are not often associated with the
kinds of substantive issues with which an everyday living feminism concerns itself. They may …

The status of the body within the dominant Western intellectual tradition has largely been
one of absence or dismissal. This chapter briefly traces that feminism has long seen its own …

Donna Haraway's enduring question—“Why should our bodies end at the skin?”(Haraway
1990, 220)—is ever more relevant in the postmodern era, where issues of bodies …

Consideration of sexual pleasure in the lives of people with disabilities plays little part in lay
consciousness, and practically none in social policy. This article investigates such …

In the face of the assaults on humanism made by recent continental philosophy, it has
become increasingly imperative–the argument goes–to look beyond anti-humanism and to …

From anorexia, sexuality, skin, pregnancy, the mouth, menstruation, biopsychiatry and male
hysteria, to the heart, this work examines the relationships between feminism, the body and …