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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780822340669
- Book Title
- Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves : How Feminism Travels Across Borders
- Book Series
- Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Item Length
- 8.9 in
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Social Science, Health & Fitness
- Topic
- Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women's Health, Sociology / General, Women's Studies
- Item Weight
- 14.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 296 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822340666
ISBN-13
9780822340669
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60633884
Product Key Features
Book Title
Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves : How Feminism Travels Across Borders
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women's Health, Sociology / General, Women's Studies
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Health & Fitness
Book Series
Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-014062
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Feminism travels, and Our Bodies, Ourselves is today the most transnational effort of women's health movements. In this theoretically sophisticated book that I have yearned for, Kathy Davis offers history and an assessment of Our Bodies, Ourselves as a multi-sited epistemological project, and she brilliantly reveals quite hopeful implications for transnational feminist theory. A politically grounded analysis of how Western feminism can become 'de-centered' through practice. Brava!"--Adele E. Clarke, coeditor of Revisioning Women, Health, and Healing: Feminist, Cultural, and Technoscience Perspectives, "Feminism travels, and Our Bodies, Ourselves is today the most transnational effort of women's health movements. In this theoretically sophisticated book that I have yearned for, Kathy Davis offers history and an assessment of Our Bodies, Ourselves as a multi-sited epistemological project, and she brilliantly reveals quite hopeful implications for transnational feminist theory. A politically grounded analysis of how western feminism can become 'de-centered' through practice. Brava!"-Adele E. Clarke, coeditor of Revisioning Women, Health, and Healing: Feminist, Cultural, and Technoscience Perspectives"I highly recommend this study of the travels of the feminist health paradigm created by the Our Bodies, Ourselves book project. Providing a comparative analysis of the transnational feminist coalitions that have formed around translations of the book, Kathy Davis offers fresh, exciting insights to feminist theorists, historians, and health activists. She avoids the dead-ends of many reductivist feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial approaches to the body. Davis gives us one of the best examples yet of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship that connects theory and practice."-Ann Ferguson, coeditor of Daring to be Good: Essays in Feminist Ethico-Politics, "I highly recommend this study of the travels of the feminist health paradigm created by the Our Bodies, Ourselves book project. Providing a comparative analysis of the transnational feminist coalitions that have formed around translations of the book, Kathy Davis offers fresh, exciting insights to feminist theorists, historians, and health activists. She avoids the dead ends of many reductivist feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial approaches to the body. Davis gives us one of the best examples yet of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship that connects theory and practice."-Ann Ferguson, coeditor of Daring to be Good: Essays in Feminist Ethico-Politics, "Feminism travels, and Our Bodies, Ourselves is today the most transnational effort of women's health movements. In this theoretically sophisticated book that I have yearned for, Kathy Davis offers history and an assessment of Our Bodies, Ourselves as a multi-sited epistemological project, and she brilliantly reveals quite hopeful implications for transnational feminist theory. A politically grounded analysis of how western feminism can become 'de-centered' through practice. Brava!"-Adele E. Clarke, coeditor of Revisioning Women, Health, and Healing: Feminist, Cultural, and Technoscience Perspectives "I highly recommend this study of the travels of the feminist health paradigm created by the Our Bodies, Ourselves book project. Providing a comparative analysis of the transnational feminist coalitions that have formed around translations of the book, Kathy Davis offers fresh, exciting insights to feminist theorists, historians, and health activists. She avoids the dead-ends of many reductivist feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial approaches to the body. Davis gives us one of the best examples yet of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship that connects theory and practice."-Ann Ferguson, coeditor of Daring to be Good: Essays in Feminist Ethico-Politics, “Feminism travels, and Our Bodies, Ourselves is today the most transnational effort of women’s health movements. In this theoretically sophisticated book that I have yearned for, Kathy Davis offers history and an assessment of Our Bodies, Ourselves as a multi-sited epistemological project, and she brilliantly reveals quite hopeful implications for transnational feminist theory. A politically grounded analysis of how Western feminism can become ‘de-centered’ through practice. Brava!�-Adele E. Clarke, coeditor of Revisioning Women, Health, and Healing: Feminist, Cultural, and Technoscience Perspectives, "Feminism travels, and Our Bodies, Ourselves is today the most transnational effort of women's health movements. In this theoretically sophisticated book that I have yearned for, Kathy Davis offers history and an assessment of Our Bodies, Ourselves as a multi-sited epistemological project, and she brilliantly reveals quite hopeful implications for transnational feminist theory. A politically grounded analysis of how western feminism can become 'de-centered' through practice. Brava!"--Adele E. Clarke, coeditor of Revisioning Women, Health, and Healing: Feminist, Cultural, and Technoscience Perspectives "I highly recommend this study of the travels of the feminist health paradigm created by the Our Bodies, Ourselves book project. Providing a comparative analysis of the transnational feminist coalitions that have formed around translations of the book, Kathy Davis offers fresh, exciting insights to feminist theorists, historians, and health activists. She avoids the dead-ends of many reductivist feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial approaches to the body. Davis gives us one of the best examples yet of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship that connects theory and practice."--Ann Ferguson, coeditor of Daring to be Good: Essays in Feminist Ethico-Politics, "Feminism travels, and Our Bodies, Ourselves is today the most transnational effort of women's health movements. In this theoretically sophisticated book that I have yearned for, Kathy Davis offers history and an assessment of Our Bodies, Ourselves as a multi-sited epistemological project, and she brilliantly reveals quite hopeful implications for transnational feminist theory. A politically grounded analysis of how Western feminism can become 'de-centered' through practice. Brava!"-Adele E. Clarke, coeditor of Revisioning Women, Health, and Healing: Feminist, Cultural, and Technoscience Perspectives, "I highly recommend this study of the travels of the feminist health paradigm created by the Our Bodies, Ourselves book project. Providing a comparative analysis of the transnational feminist coalitions that have formed around translations of the book, Kathy Davis offers fresh, exciting insights to feminist theorists, historians, and health activists. She avoids the dead ends of many reductivist feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial approaches to the body. Davis gives us one of the best examples yet of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship that connects theory and practice."--Ann Ferguson, coeditor of Daring to be Good: Essays in Feminist Ethico-Politics, “I highly recommend this study of the travels of the feminist health paradigm created by the Our Bodies, Ourselves book project. Providing a comparative analysis of the transnational feminist coalitions that have formed around translations of the book, Kathy Davis offers fresh, exciting insights to feminist theorists, historians, and health activists. She avoids the dead ends of many reductivist feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial approaches to the body. Davis gives us one of the best examples yet of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship that connects theory and practice.�-Ann Ferguson, coeditor of Daring to be Good: Essays in Feminist Ethico-Politics
Dewey Decimal
613.04244
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I: The Book and Its Travels 1. OBOS in the United States: The Enigma of a Feminist "Success Story" 19 2. OBOS Abroad: From "Center" to "Periphery" and Back 50 3. Between Empowerment and Bewitchment: The Myth of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective 85 4. Reclaiming Women's Bodies: Colonialist Trope or Critical Epistemology? 120 5. Creating Feminist Subjects: The Reader and the Text 142 Part III: Transnational Body/Politics 6. Oppositional Translations and Imagined Communities: Adapting OBOS 169 7. Transnational Knowledges, Transnational Politics 197 Appendix 1. Foreign-Language Editions of OBOS 214 Appendix 2. Books Inspired by OBOS 217 Appendix 3. Translations and Adaptations of OBOS in Progress 218 Appendix 4. Translations and Adaptations of OBOS Seeking Funds for Start-up 219 Notes 221 Bibliography 243 Index 273
Synopsis
The story of how the feminist classic Our Bodies, Ourselves has been adapted and reworked by women of different cultures around the world., The book "Our Bodies, Ourselves" is a feminist success story. Selling more than four million copies since its debut in 1970, it has challenged medical dogmas about women's bodies and sexuality, shaped health care policies, energized the reproductive rights movement, and stimulated medical research on women's health. The book has influenced how generations of U.S. women feel about their bodies and health. "Our Bodies, Ourselves" has also had a whole life outside the United States. It has been taken up, translated, and adapted by women across the globe, inspiring more than thirty foreign language editions. Kathy Davis tells the story of this remarkable book's global circulation. Based on interviews with members of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, the group of women who created "Our Bodies, Ourselves," as well as responses to the book from readers, and discussions with translators from Latin America, Egypt, Thailand, China, Eastern Europe, Francophone Africa, and many other countries and regions, Davis shows why "Our Bodies, Ourselves" could never have been so influential if it had been just a popular manual on women's health. It was precisely the book's distinctive epistemology, inviting women to use their own experiences as resources for producing situated, critical knowledge about their bodies and health, that allowed the book to speak to so many women within and outside the United States. Davis provides a grounded analysis of how feminist knowledge and political practice actually travel, and she shows how the process of transforming "Our Bodies, Ourselves" offers a glimpse of a truly transnational feminism, one that joins the acknowledgment of difference and diversityamong women in different locations with critical reflexivity and political empowerment., The book Our Bodies, Ourselves has sold more than four million copies, gone through six revisions, and inspired more than twenty foreign editions. For more than thirty-five years, the lively, accessible manual on womens health has validated womens authority over their bodies and their own experiences as resources for challenging medical dogma. Within the United States, it has influenced health care policies, energized the reproductive rights movement, and stimulated medical research on womens health. At the same time, it has had a whole life outside the United States. From its inception, the book has been taken up, translated, and adapted by women around the globe. In The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves, Kathy Davis tells the story of this feminist classic, connecting its history in the United States with its many varied lives abroad. Davis interviewed members of the Boston Womens Health Book Collective, the group of women who created Our Bodies, Ourselves, as well as readers and translators. She draws on those interviews, archival research, and analyses of the various editions of the book to describe how it has changed since it first appeared as an underground stencil in 1970. Material has been added and removed in response to changes in medicine and healthcare, readers feedback, and a growing concern with differences among women, especially around issues of class, race, and sexuality. Women from Latin America, Egypt, Thailand, China, Eastern Europe, Francophone Africa, and many other countries and regions have translated Our Bodies, Ourselves. In some instances, they have adapted its contents to make the information accessible and relevant to women of their respective cultures, and inothers they have developed new publications inspired by the book. This processof transforming an America, The book Our Bodies, Ourselves is a feminist success story. Selling more than four million copies since its debut in 1970, it has challenged medical dogmas about women's bodies and sexuality, shaped health care policies, energized the reproductive rights movement, and stimulated medical research on women's health. The book has influenced how generations of U.S. women feel about their bodies and health. Our Bodies, Ourselves has also had a whole life outside the United States. It has been taken up, translated, and adapted by women across the globe, inspiring more than thirty foreign language editions. Kathy Davis tells the story of this remarkable book's global circulation. Based on interviews with members of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, the group of women who created Our Bodies, Ourselves , as well as responses to the book from readers, and discussions with translators from Latin America, Egypt, Thailand, China, Eastern Europe, Francophone Africa, and many other countries and regions, Davis shows why Our Bodies, Ourselves could never have been so influential if it had been just a popular manual on women's health. It was precisely the book's distinctive epistemology, inviting women to use their own experiences as resources for producing situated, critical knowledge about their bodies and health, that allowed the book to speak to so many women within and outside the United States. Davis provides a grounded analysis of how feminist knowledge and political practice actually travel, and she shows how the process of transforming Our Bodies, Ourselves offers a glimpse of a truly transnational feminism, one that joins the acknowledgment of difference and diversity among women in different locations with critical reflexivity and political empowerment.
LC Classification Number
HQ1154.D34 2007
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