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Foregrounding the body, this remarkable collective work explores the sexualization of women's bodies, charting the complex interplay of social, political and cultural forces which produce a normative ""femininity."" A series of projects which focus on concrete instances of sexualization (hair, legs, the slavegirl stereotype, women's gymnastics) lead to a broader examination of the relationship between power and sexuality, the social and the psychological. Placing themselves at the crossroad where feminism and socialism meet, the contributors move seamlessly between the autobiographical and the analytical, questioning the diversion between personal and political, mapping the knot of memory and desire at the heart of the gendered body. Vitally, these accounts do not present sexualization as a passive inculcation of social norms: the individual is presented as taking an active role in the construction of gendered identities.

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Author:   Frigga Haug ,  Anke Bünz-Elfferding ,  Barbara Nemitz ,  Christine Thomas
Publisher:   Verso Books
Imprint:   Verso Books
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.382kg
ISBN:  

9781859842072

ISBN 10:   1859842070
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   17 October 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Frigga Haug teaches politics and sociology in Berlin. She is the editor of Female Sexualization (Verso, 1987) and of the journal Das Argument.

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