The Body: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
No edit summary |
(cat) |
||
| (9 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
Feminist SF has often focused on the body, grounding stories in bodily reality; or tackling the association of women with nature, the earth, and bodies; or taking on sexist perceptions of women's bodies. | |||
Particular topics include: | |||
* [[Body image and beauty standards]] | |||
* [[Fat]] - Fat women as characters, particularly point-of-view or sympathetic characters, is all too rare; questions of dieting, eating, and weight are related | |||
* [[Body modification]] - Since [[Donna Haraway]] dropped a bomb on the critical/theoretical community with "[[The Cyborg Manifesto]]", body modification to accommodate technology has been a staple consideration of theory as well as of cyberpunk. Traditional body modifications and mutilations (earrings, tattoos; genital mutilation) raise different but related issues. | |||
==Body Processes== | ==Body Processes== | ||
* [[Menstruation]] | * [[Menstruation]] | ||
* [[Pregnancy]] | * [[Pregnancy]] | ||
* [[Breastfeeding, Nursing, Breast Milk]] | |||
* [[Aging]] | * [[Aging]] | ||
* [[Sexuality]] | * [[Sexuality, Reproduction, Family Arrangements]] | ||
[[ | [[Category:Body themes| Body]] | ||
Latest revision as of 19:46, 16 February 2007
Feminist SF has often focused on the body, grounding stories in bodily reality; or tackling the association of women with nature, the earth, and bodies; or taking on sexist perceptions of women's bodies.
Particular topics include:
- Body image and beauty standards
- Fat - Fat women as characters, particularly point-of-view or sympathetic characters, is all too rare; questions of dieting, eating, and weight are related
- Body modification - Since Donna Haraway dropped a bomb on the critical/theoretical community with "The Cyborg Manifesto", body modification to accommodate technology has been a staple consideration of theory as well as of cyberpunk. Traditional body modifications and mutilations (earrings, tattoos; genital mutilation) raise different but related issues.