Home/bodies : geographies of self, place, and space /

This collection of essays brings together a diverse range of voices that speak to the issues of home, gender, and identity. The essays include information on the ideologies of the human body in the West, the challenges women face in securing the material needs to create healthy homes and bodies, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: University of Saskatchewan. Women's Studies Research Unit
Otros Autores: Schissel, Wendy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Calgary : University of Calgary Press, ©2006.
Temas:
Women > Social conditions > Textbooks.
Women's rights > Textbooks.
Feminism > Textbooks.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Textbooks.
Femmes > Conditions sociales > Manuels d'enseignment supérieur.
Femmes > Droit > Manuels d'enseignement supérieur.
Féminisme > Manuels d'enseignement supérieur.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Feminism
Women > Social conditions
Women's rights
Electronic books.
Textbooks
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Compound fractures. Oppression and indigenous women : past, present, and future : an Australian Kimberley Aboriginal perspective / J. Maria Pedersen ; Who am I and where do I belong? Sites of struggle in crafting and negotiating female Muslim identities in Canada / Tabassum Ruby ; 'Transgendered' perspectives as a challenge to sex, gender, and sexuality / Coralee Drechsler
  • pt. 2. Ruptured sutures. Silent, denigrated, and rendered invisible : mothers who lost their babies to adoption in the 1960s and 1970s / Sandra Jarvie ; Tell-me-what-I-want.com : adolescent girls, consumer society, and information technologies / Ellen Whiteman ; The impact of palliation on familial space : home space from the perspective of family members who are living (and caring) for dying loved ones at home / Allison M. Williams ; Spinning yarns of women's activism in support of industrial forestry on Canada's west coast / Maureen G. Reed
  • pt. 3. Habitats for/of humanity. Crafting selves : the impact of identity on intercultural friendships among women / Kim Morrison
  • Women's professional mentorship in psychology and the academy : one group's stories of quilting and life / Denise J. Larsen [and others] ; Sexual health of young women : context and care make a difference / Mary Rucklos Hampton [and others] ; Voices of dancers with mobility impairments / Donna L. Goodwin, Joan Krohn, & Arvid Kuhnle.

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