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Social Science Feminism & Feminist Theory

Home/Bodies

Geographies of Self, Place, and Space

edited by Wendy Schissel

Publisher
University of Calgary Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2006
Category
Feminism & Feminist Theory
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552381847
    Publish Date
    Sep 2006
    List Price
    $34.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552383643
    Publish Date
    Sep 2006
    List Price
    $34.95

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With Home/Bodies, Wendy Schissel brings together a diverse range of voices which explore the concepts of home, gender, and identity. The metaphorical geographies of bodies, places, and spaces are the backdrop for such topics as: transgendered identities; young people and sexual health; kinetic art and disability; adolescent girls and consumer society; palliative care for dying loved ones; women and social activism; and aboriginal and multicultural perspectives. Qualitative research methods are referenced throughout, including interviews, case studies, focus groups, and narrative research.

Home/Bodies includes contributions by several new–generation feminist scholars and researchers, along with established teachers, researchers, and activists in the academy and the community.

 

About the author

Wendy Schissel is the Dean of Humanities at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon, and an adjunct professor at the University of Saskatchewan.

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Editorial Reviews

 

Home/Bodies showcases a wealth of women’s lived experiences, challenging readers to consider the contemporary complexity and diversity of gendered identity, embodiment, and belonging in place.

—Deborah Cowen, University of Toronto Quarterly