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"Drawing on Foucault's notion of governmentality, this collection explores relations between the intimate governance of bodies and political governance. The contributors offer empirically grounded yet theoretically sophisticated case studies showing how gendered, racialized, and socioecono...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Reed, Lori Stephens, Saukko, Paula
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
Temas:
Women > Health and hygiene.
Women > Psychology.
Women's studies.
Feminism > United States.
Feminism.
Women's Health > history
Women > psychology
Feminism
Femmes > Psychologie.
Études sur les femmes.
Féminisme > États-Unis.
Féminisme.
women's studies.
feminism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Women's Health.
Women > Health and hygiene
Women > Psychology
Women's studies
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Governing the female body : three dimensions of power / Paula Saukko and Lori Reed
  • "It's down to you" : psychology, magazine culture and governing female bodies / Lisa Blackman
  • Beyond pill scares? Online discussions on genetic thrombophilia and gendered contradictions of personalised medicine / Paula Saukko
  • Gender, pathology, spectale : Internet addiction and the cultural organization of "healthy" computer use / Lori Reed
  • Pink Ribbons Inc. : the emergence of cause-related marketing and the corporatization of the breast cancer movement / Samantha King
  • Regulation through the postfeminist pharmacy : promotional discourse and menstruation / Joshua Gunn & Mary Douglas Vavrus
  • Productive bodies : women, work and depression / Kristin Swenson
  • 'The pill' in Puerto Rico and the mainland United States : negotiating discourses of risk and decolonization / Laura Briggs
  • Biopolitical media : population communications international and the governing of reproductive health / Ronald Walter Greene and David Breshears
  • Disciplining the ethnic body : Latinidad, hybridized bodies, and transnational identity / Angharad N. Valdivia and Isabel Molina
  • "Doing what comes naturally"-negotiating normality in accounts of IVF-failure / Karen Throsby
  • Feminism's sex wars and the limits of governmentality / Barbara Mennel
  • Beyond XX and XY : living genomic sex / Ingrid Holme.

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