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The quintessential examination of women, gynaecology is not simply the study of women's bodies, but also serves to define them. This book considers the public exposure of female 'privates' in the performance of the pelvic examination. It focuses on the ways in which women and their bodies have been treated by the medical establishment.

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“Health educator, performer, and scholar Terri Kapsalis gives us a series of brilliantly performed readings of gynecology’s complex private and public lives in medical texts, history books, clinics, popular film, and performance art. More than just cultural critique, Public Privates is a feminist guide to locating our own agency as active performers in the multilayered practices and discourses devoted to women’s sexual and reproductive health.”—Lisa Cartwright, author of Screening the Body

Public Privates

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      Publisher: Duke University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 19/02/1997
      ISBN13: 9780822319214, 978-0822319214
      ISBN10: 0822319217

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The quintessential examination of women, gynaecology is not simply the study of women's bodies, but also serves to define them. This book considers the public exposure of female 'privates' in the performance of the pelvic examination. It focuses on the ways in which women and their bodies have been treated by the medical establishment.

      Trade Review
      “Health educator, performer, and scholar Terri Kapsalis gives us a series of brilliantly performed readings of gynecology’s complex private and public lives in medical texts, history books, clinics, popular film, and performance art. More than just cultural critique, Public Privates is a feminist guide to locating our own agency as active performers in the multilayered practices and discourses devoted to women’s sexual and reproductive health.”—Lisa Cartwright, author of Screening the Body

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