The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer
A provocative reassessment of feminist ideas about the female body, sexuality and identity that argues women’s bodily experiences have been medicalized and distorted by cultural and institutional forces; it surveys childbirth, menstruation, menopause, virginity, cosmetic surgery, prostitution and pornography to show how social, medical and legal systems constrain women’s autonomy and authentic experience, and calls for a feminist politics that recognizes and defends the physical realities of women’s lives while challenging narrow ideals of femininity.
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- Published
- 1999
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- Australian
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- Original Language
- English
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