Ussher examines the ways in which medicine, science, the law and popular culture produce fictions about femininity, positioning the reproductive body as the source of women's power, danger and weakness. She describes the construction of the 'monstrous feminine' in mythology, art, literature and film, revealing its implications for the regulation and experience of the female body.
Creator
Ussher, Jane M.
The psychology of the female body
Creator
Ussher, Jane M.
The psychology of the female body
Auteur bekijkt vanuit de benadering van de 'levenscyclus' hoe sociale constructies het vrouwenlichaam veranderen, van menarche tot menopauze.