Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age

by Alison Phipps and Alison Phipps

Book Overview

Winner of the 2015 FWSA Book Prize

The body is a site of impassioned, fraught and complex debate in the West today. In one political moment, left-wingers, academics and feminists have defended powerful men accused of sex crimes, positioned topless pictures in the tabloids as empowering, and opposed them for sexualizing breasts and undermining their �natural� function. At the same time they have been criticized by extreme-right...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745648886
• ISBN13: 9780745648880
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"