The Woman in the Body

A bold reappraisal of science and society, The Woman in the Body explores the different ways that women's reproduction is seen in American culture. Contrasting the views of medical science with those of ordinary women from diverse social and economic backgrounds, anthropologist Emily Martin presents unique fieldwork on American culture and uncovers the metaphors of economy and ...

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A bold reappraisal of science and society, The Woman in the Body explores the different ways that women's reproduction is seen in American culture. Contrasting the views of medical science with those of ordinary women from diverse social and economic backgrounds, anthropologist Emily Martin presents unique fieldwork on American culture and uncovers the metaphors of economy and alienation that pervade women's imaging of themselves and their bodies. A new preface examines some of the latest medical ideas about women's reproductive cycles.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
One Problems and Methods
1 The Familiar and the Exotic
2 Fragmentation and Gender
Two Science as a Cultur al System
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
One Problems and Methods
1 The Familiar and the Exotic
2 Fragmentation and Gender
Two Science as a Cultur al System
3 Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Menstruation and Menopause
4 Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Birth
Three Women's Vantage Point
5 Self and Body Image
6 Menstruation, Work, and Class
7 Premenstrual Syndrome, Work Discipline, and Anger
8 Birth, Resistance, Race, and Class
9 The Creation of New Birth Imagery
10 Menopause, Power, and Heat
Four Consciousness and Ideology
11 Class and Resistance
12 The Embodiment of Oppositions
Appendix
Notes
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