{"product_id":"feminism-culture-and-embodied-practice","title":"Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice","description":"\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeminism, Culture and Embodied Practice\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45589547024622,"sku":"9780415497909","price":244.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780415497909_a81638d9-5d77-46ec-8d41-9f647d7d2d91.jpg?v=1721224399","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/feminism-culture-and-embodied-practice","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}