This book focuses on the significance of the body in contemporary feminist scholarship. The contributors offer a critical appraisal of the recent `body revival', drawing upon insights from contemporary feminist theories on gender and power to explore the subject. The book sets an agenda not only for research about the body but for an embodied perspective on the body as well.

Embody-ing Theory - Kathy Davis
Beyond Modernist and Postmodernist Readings of the Body
PART ONE: THE FEMALE BODY: DIFFERENCE AND POWER
Reading the Body - Anne Woollett and Harriette Marshall
Young Women¿s Accounts of Their Bodies in Relation to Autonomy and Independence
Performing the Body, Creating Culture - Anna Aalten
Female Bodies and Brittle Bones - Ineke Klinge
Medical Interventions in Osteoporosis
The Body of Gender Difference - Gesa Lindemann
Victims or Offenders? `Other¿ Women in French Sexual Politics - Rachel A Bloul
Sex as Usual - Dubravka Zarkov
Body Politics and the Media War in Serbia
PART TWO: FEMINIST INTERVENTIONS IN BODY/POLITICS
Erotic Bodies - Gon Buurman
Images of the Disabled
Women¿s Public Toilets - Julia Edwards and Linda McKie
A Serious Issue for the Body Politic
Chic Outrage and Body Politics - Joanne Finkelstein
`My Body Is My Art¿ - Kathy Davis
Cosmetic Surgery as Feminist Utopia?
The Researching Body - Monica Rudberg
The Epistemophilic Project