Female Sexualization - A Collective Work of Memory (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Verso Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Verso Classics
Release date:	October 1999
First published:	October 1999
Authors:	Frigga Haug
Contributors:	Anke Bünz-Elfferding • Barbara Nemitz • Christine Thomas • Erika Niehoff • Kornelia Hauser • Magret Lüdemann • Marion Laudan • Martina Scheu • Nora Räthzel
Dimensions:	216 x 137 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	302
Edition:	2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-85984-207-2
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-85984-207-0
Barcode:	9781859842072

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