The Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neolibe... - Alison Phipps
Winner of the 2015 FWSA Book PrizeThe body is a site of impassioned, fraught and complex debate in the West today. In one political moment, left-wingers, academics and feminists have defended powerful…
Specifikacia The Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neolibe... - Alison Phipps
Winner of the 2015 FWSA Book PrizeThe body is a site of impassioned, fraught and complex debate in the West today. In one political moment, left-wingers, academics and feminists have defended powerful men accused of sex crimes, positioned topless pictures in the tabloids as empowering, and opposed them for sexualizing breasts and undermining their �natural� function. At the same time they have been criticized by extreme-right groups for ignoring honour killings and other �culture-based� forms of violence against women. How can we make sense of this varied terrain?In this important and challenging new book, Alison Phipps constructs a political sociology of women�s bodies around key debates: sexual violence, gender and Islam, sex work and motherhood. Her analysis uncovers dubious rhetorics and paradoxical allegiances,