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Managing the Monstrous Feminine: Regulating the Reproductive Body

Author(s) : Jane Ussher

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Publisher : Routledge
Published : January 2006
Category :
Psychoanalysis
Catalogue No : 23079
ISBN 13 : 9780415328111
ISBN 10 : 041532811X

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'Managing the Monstrous Feminine' takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and regulation of the female body. Jane Ussher examines the ways in which medicine, science, the law and popular culture combine to produce fictions about femininity, positioning the reproductive body as the source of women's power, danger and weakness.

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Including sections on 'Regulation', 'The subjectification of women' and 'Women's negotiation and resistance', this book
describes the construction of the 'monstrous feminine' in mythology, art, literature and film, revealing its implications for the regulation and experience of the fecund female body.
Critical reviews are combined with case studies and extensive interview material to illuminate discussions of subjects
including:
*The regulation of women through the body
*Regimes of knowledge associated with reproduction
*Intersubjectivity and the body
*Women's narratives of resistance

These insights into the relation between the construction of the female body and women's subjectivity will be of interest to those studying health psychology, social psychology, medical sociology,
gender studies and cultural studies. The book will also appeal to all those looking for a high-level introduction to contemporary feminist thought on the female body.