附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lived body vs. gender : reflections on social structure and subjectivity -- Throwing like a girl : a phenomenology of feminine body comportment, motility, and spatiality -- Pregnant embodiment : subjectivity and alienation -- Women recovering our clothes -- Breasted experience : the look and the feeling -- Menstrual meditations -- House and home : feminist variations on a theme -- A room of one's own : old age, extended care, and privacy.
摘要:Written over two decades, these essays describe diverse aspects of women's lived body experience in modern Western societies. Young combines theoretical description of experience with normative evaluation of the unjust constraints on their freedom & opportunity that continue to burden many women.