Home/Bodies:
Geographies of Self, Place, and Space

Edited by Wendy Schissel

$34.95 sc
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ISBN 1-55238-184-6
337 pp.
6" x 9 "

Women's Studies
Cultural Studies

About the Book

This collection of essays brings together a diverse range of voices that speak to the issues of home, gender, and identity. The contributors, as social critics, researchers, and community activists, are experts on the political economy of the female body. Using an interdisciplinary approach, these writers explore how the victimization, dehumanization, and marginalization of women affect the identity of the female body both individually and communally. The essays include information on the ideologies of the human body in the West, the challenges women face in securing the material needs to create healthy homes and bodies, and environments where feminist practices have made a difference. Home/Bodies includes contributions by several new-generation feminist scholars and researchers, along with established teachers, researchers, and activists in the academy and the community.

About the Author

Wendy Schissel is the Dean of the Humanities Division at Mount Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon. She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Saskatchewan.

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