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The flesh made word : female figures and women's bodies
Barcode:
R27247G2250
Author:
Michie, Helena
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Subject:
Human - Body;; Victorian age;; Feminism and literature;; Painting;; Women in literature;; Women and literature;; Feminism and literature;
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Publish Year:
1989
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Type of Material:
Book
Call Number:
SV 820.93522 MIC
ISBN:
0195060814
Notes:
CONTENTS: Introduction: Constructing the Frame; CHAPTER I: Ladylike Anorexia: Hunger, Sexuality, and Etiquette; CHAPTER II: Becoming Public Women: Women and Work; CHAPTER III: Calling and Falling: Vocation and Prostitution; CHAPTER IV: Body, Figure, Embodiment: The Paradoxes of Heroine Description; CHAPTER V: Re-membering the Body: Feminist Theory and Representation; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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