{"product_id":"feminism-culture-and-embodied-practice-the-rhetorics-of-comparison-transformations-0415497906","title":"Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice: The Rhetorics of Comparison (Transformations)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0415497906\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pedwell, Carolyn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.g. African female genital cutting and Western cosmetic surgery) has become increasingly common as a means of countering cultural essentialism, ethnocentrism and racism.Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice examines how cross cultural comparisons of embodied practices function as a rhetorical device - with particular theoretical, social and political effects - in a range of contemporary feminist texts. It asks: Why and how are cross-cultural links among these practices drawn by feminist theorists and commentators, and what do these analogies do? What knowledges, hierarchies and figurations do these comparisons produce, disrupt and\/or reify in feminist theory, and how do such effects resonate within popular culture? Taking a relational web approach that focuses on unravelling the binary threads that link specific embodied practices within a wider representational community, this book highlights how we depend on and affect one another across cultural and geo-political contexts.This book is valuable reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers in Gender Studies, Postcolonial or Race Studies, Cultural and Media Studies, and other related disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51931317698848,"sku":"NEW0415497906","price":298.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/feminism-culture-and-embodied-practice-the-rhetorics-of-comparison-transformations-0415497906","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}