Governing the Female Body

Governing the Female BodyA feminist and Foucauldian analysis of a variety of emerging gendered discourses. Drawing on Foucault's notion of governmentality, this collection explores relations between the intimate governance of bodies and political governance. The contributors offer empirically grounded yet theoretically sophisticated case studies showing how gendered, racialized, and socioeconomic agendas structure medical and scientific practices. Developing and utilizing a

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from the Alvesta Salmonella outbreak of 1953 through to the national Salmonella control programme introduced in 2010

Jnaneshwar fashioned from human language one of the most sublime visions of the Absolute that has ever been put into speech

illustrating a wide range of ailments that women and young children suffered in antiquity

Through extensive research in nine countries

Ralph Waldo Emerson

constructs of the feminine in Buddhist texts

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the vision of founder and well-known guru Sri Aurobindo

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