Political Economy, Power and the Body: Global Perspectives

by G. Youngs (Editor)

Overview

Political Economy, Power and the Body is carefully organized to provide an introductory section of three chapters which set out a number of detailed theoretical arguments relevant to the work developed in the next two sections. In this sense the collection should be a major contribution in laying the groundwork in the new area. The strength of the volume lies in the way the individual chapters bring theory and practice together. It could be argued that it represents the maturity of feminist work in international political economy now. The book will be a vital teaching as well as research text, especially in international relations/international political economy/women's studies generally.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333719244
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/28/1999
Series:	International Political Economy Series
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

CHARLOTTE HOOPER Teaches Gender and International Relations, Department of Politics, Bristol University PALENA R. NEALE has recently completed her PhD at University of Wales, Aberystwyth JANE L. PARPART Professor of International Development Studies, Women's Studies and History, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada JAN JINDY PETTMAN Reader and Director, Centre for Women's Studies, Australian National University CYNTHIA WEBER Associate Professor of Political Science, Purdue University MARC WILLIAMS International Relations, University of Sussex MARYSIA ZALEWSKI Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction SECTION I: EMBODIED POLITICAL ECONOMY Embodied Political Economy or An Escape from Disembodied Knowledge; G.Youngs Disembodiment, Embodiment and the Constriction of Hegemonic Masculinity; C.Hooper Writing the Body: Transnational Sex; J.J.Pettman SECTION II: TECHNOLOGIES, SYMBOLISM and REPRESENTATION Globalization, Technology and Consumption; G.Youngs Imagineering Value: Good Neighbourliness in a Era of Disney; C.Weber Missing Mother? Reproductive Technologies into the 21st Century; M.Zalewski SECTION III: EMBODIED IDENTITIES The Political Economy of Meat: Food, Culture and Identity; M.Williams The Widow Refuses: Embodied Practices and Negotiations over Inheritance in Zimbabwe; J.L.Parpart Population, Politics and the Pope: Universal Agendas and the Bodies of Women; P.Neale Index