Managing the Monstrous Feminine: Regulating the Reproductive Body

by Jane M. Ussher

Book Overview

Managing the Monstrous Feminine takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and regulation of the female body. Jane Ussher examines the ways in which medicine, science, the law and popular culture combine to produce fictions about femininity, positioning the reproductive body as the source of women's power, danger and weakness.
Including sections on 'regulation', 'the subjectification...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415328101
• ISBN13: 9780415328104
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.5"