This anthology of previously published writings on the politics of women's bodies provides a basic overview of significant issues in the fields of gender and wo
Is it possible to simultaneously belong to and be exiled from a community? In Politics of the Female Body, Ketu H. Katrak argues that it is not only possible, b
Winner of the 2015 FWSA Book Prize The body is a site of impassioned, fraught and complex debate in the West today. In one political moment, left-wingers, acade
In Turkey, the Justice and Development Party government has introduced new regulations about reproductive rights, and shifted family and gender policies. Women'
In this work the author explores the social and political assumptions of biology, and genetics in particular. She examines the ways biologists use scientific la