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Abstract
While previously sociologists have attempted to gender the body and feminists have attempted to embody gender there has not been any attempt so far to link these two perspectives till now. Alexandra Howson's accessible new text draws these two literatures together, pointing to ways of integrating feminist perspectives on the body into sociological theory. The result is a definitive, critical overview of body concepts in both sociology and in feminism. Surveying all the key concepts in the field, this book introduces us to an extensive range of 'narratives of embodiment' and presents a full analysis of the most important texts in new feminist theories of the body.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foreword | |||
| The Urban Management Series | |||
| Acknowledgements | |||
| Introduction | |||
| Catalina Gandelsonas | |||
| PART I Theoretical issues | |||
| 1. Communicating urban research knowledge in international development cooperation | |||
| Tony Lloyd-Jones | |||
| 2. Modelling demand in order to meet it: can the information and knowledge management systems of the urban poor be understood and strengthened? | |||
| Lucky Lowe | |||
| 3. The hi-tech gift economy | |||
| Richard Barbrook | |||
| 4. The role of communication in urban communities | |||
| Norma V. Madrid | |||
| 5. Facilitating information dissemination and exchange through formal and informal networking | |||
| Otto Ruskulis | |||
| 6. Cultural differences and legibility | |||
| Nabeel Hamdi with drawing and captions by Ripin Kalra | |||
| 7. Communicating desire | |||
| Robert Brown | |||
| 8. Barriers and gaps in the communication process | |||
| Catalina Gandelsonas with drawings by Bill Erickson | |||
| 9. Improving communication in Amazonia: examining environmental imagery of Amazonian indigenous life | |||
| Kathleen Richardson | |||
| 10. Making differences: cities, NGOs and the cultural politics of development discourse | |||
| Carl O’Coill | |||
| PART II Case studies | |||
| 11. Broadcast for change: a Hands On approach to the delivery of empowering information to a global audience | |||
| Janet Boston | |||
| 12. National and regional Internet-based research networks: lessons from the UK and Central America | |||
| Harry Smith and Paul Jenkins | |||
| 13. Electronic conferencing: the learning curve | |||
| Mansoor Ali and Darren Saywell | |||
| 14. Putting over the message: a programme in Pakistan to build capacity among industrialists for pollution abatement | |||
| Rizwan Hameed and Jeremy Raemaekers | |||
| 15. Keeping ideas alive: communicating building for safety in Bangladesh | |||
| Iftekhar Ahmed and Matthew Carter | |||
| 16. Communication in HIV/AIDS prevention: a case study from Vietnam | |||
| Toyoko Kodama and Le Thi Minh Chau | |||
| 17. Knowledge transfer in a democratic context | |||
| Pachampet Sundaram | |||
| 18. Conclusions | |||
| Catalina Gandelsonas | |||
| List of contributors | |||
| References | |||
| Notes | |||
| Index |