Barbara Duden is a German feminist and medical historian whose work has been pivotal in establishing the body as a site for historical inquiry. As an emeritus professor, she has significantly shaped academic discourse. She was also a co-founder of the journal Courage, which played an extensive role in informing the women's movement.
In Disembodying Women, Barbara Duden takes a closer look at this contemporary transformation of women's experience of pregnancy. She suggests that advances in technology and parallel changes in public discourse have refrained pregnancy as a managed process, the mother as an ecosystem, and the fetus as an endangered species.
The bestselling feminist novel that awakened both women and men, The Women's Room follows the transformation of Mira Ward and her circle as the women's movement begins to have an impact on their lives. A biting social commentary on an emotional world gone silently haywire, The Women's Room is a modern classic that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted so blindly and revered so completely. Marilyn French questions those accepted norms and poignantly portrays the hopeful believers looking for new truths.
Aus dem Inhalt: Eine »Universität für das schöne Geschlecht«? (R. Rürup) Verschnörkelte Wissenschaft (L. Daston) Das Frauenzimmer - (k)ein Ort für Frauen? (C. Opitz) Fräuleingeschichten (Ch. von Oertzen) Fontanes Melusine-Gestalten (Ch. von Braun) Madagaskar (U. Daniel) Man's World: Der weibliche Beitrag zur schwarzen Serie der Utopie (L. Niethammer) Ein Geschlechter-Stereotyp wird verkehrt (L. Davidoff) Frauenmilch - Muttermilch: Eine Geschichte aus dem 18. Jahrhundert (H. Wunder) John Stuart Mill, der Liberalismus und das Problem der Pornographie (U. Baumann) Das Huhn und der Feudalismus