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Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice: The Rhetorics of Comparison (Transformations) by Carolyn Pedwell is a social science available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.g. ‘African’ female genital cutting and ‘Western’ cosmetic surgery) has become increasingly common as a means of countering cultural essentialism, ethnocentrism and racism.</p><p>Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practiceexamines how cross cultural comparisons of embodied practices function as a rhetorical device – with particular theore

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Carolyn Pedwell
Publisher
Routledge
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9781135999667
Category
social science
Subjects
Science, Gender Studies, Social Science
Updated
2026-03-25

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