Barbara Duden Knihy

In Disembodying Women, Barbara Duden takes a closer look at this contemporary transformation of women's experience of pregnancy. She suggests that advances in technology and parallel changes in public discourse have refrained pregnancy as a managed process, the mother as an ecosystem, and the fetus as an endangered species.

The twenty-one-million copy bestselling novel and provocative feminist classic that changed the world when it was first published in 1977 “With The Women’s Room, Marilyn French joined Simone de Beauvoir, Ralph Ellison, and that very small group of writers whose words spark a movement.” —Gloria Steinem In the 1950s, many American women left education and professional advancement behind in order to marry, only to find themselves adrift and unable to support themselves after divorcing their husbands twenty years later. Some became destitute; a few went insane. But many went back to school in the heyday of the Women’s Liberation movement, and were swept up in the promise of equality for both sexes. The Women’s Room tells the story of one such woman: a suburban 1950s housewife named Mira who divorces her loathsome husband and returns to graduate school at Harvard. Loosely based on Marilyn French’s own life, the story of Mira and her friends offers wry, piercing insight into the inner lives of a generation of American women. A powerful indictment of the patriarchal social norms of the time, it caused an uproar when it was first published in 1977, changing the course of the feminist movement forever. Today, it remains timely and eerily relevant—a courageous novel infused with revolutionary fervor that examines the world of hopeful believers looking for new truths.

Aus dem Inhalt: Eine »Universität für das schöne Geschlecht«? (R. Rürup) Verschnörkelte Wissenschaft (L. Daston) Das Frauenzimmer - (k)ein Ort für Frauen? (C. Opitz) Fräuleingeschichten (Ch. von Oertzen) Fontanes Melusine-Gestalten (Ch. von Braun) Madagaskar (U. Daniel) Man's World: Der weibliche Beitrag zur schwarzen Serie der Utopie (L. Niethammer) Ein Geschlechter-Stereotyp wird verkehrt (L. Davidoff) Frauenmilch - Muttermilch: Eine Geschichte aus dem 18. Jahrhundert (H. Wunder) John Stuart Mill, der Liberalismus und das Problem der Pornographie (U. Baumann) Das Huhn und der Feudalismus