
Managing the Monstrous Feminine : Regulating the Reproductive Body
Regulating the Reproductive Body
By: Jane M. Ussher, Jane Ussher (Editor)
Paperback | 1 February 2006 | Edition Number 1
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Managing the Monstrous Feminine takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and regulation of the female body.
Jane Ussher examines the ways in which medicine, science, the law and popular culture combine to produce fictions about femininity, positioning the reproductive body as the source of women's power, danger and weakness.
Including sections on 'regulation', 'the subjectification of women' and 'women's negotiation and resistance', this book describes the construction of the 'monstrous feminine' in mythology, art, literature and film, revealing its implications for the regulation and experience of the fecund female body.
Critical reviews are combined with case studies and extensive interview material to illuminate discussions of subjects including:
- the regulation of women through the body
- regimes of knowledge associated with reproduction
- intersubjectivity and the body
- women's narratives of resistance.
Industry Reviews
'The book is thought provoking and represents an exciting advance in Jane Ussher's scholarship over the past twenty years, initially expressed through her original and challenging accounts of the psychology of the female body and women's madness. Overall there is an upbeat message for women and a rallying cry and inspiration to challenge the 'patriarchal gaze' and its impact on our mental and physical well-being.' - Paula Nicolson, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
'This is a terrifically readable account of the wrongs done women by rendering 'the fecund female body' a site of meaningless, monstrous abjection. Together with ways of combating this with examples from Jane Ussher's own personal life, as well as with examples from the visual arts, and from group and individual women's re-telling of their experiences, Managing the Monstrous Feminine does much to render speakable the unspeakable, specifically regarding 'PMS'.' - Janet Sayers, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
ISBN: 9780415328111
ISBN-10: 041532811X
Series: Women and Psychology
Published: 1st February 2006
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 236
Audience: College, Tertiary and University
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 15.9 x 2.1
Weight (kg): 0.37
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