BS-054GSGender & Society
A Brief History of the Female Body
Breve historia del cuerpo femenino
- Call number
- GS · BS-054
- Language
- English
- Physical copies
- 1
- Verification
- Verified
What it is about
Deena Emera examines female biology through evolutionary history, asking why menstruation, pregnancy, birth, lactation, menopause, and reproductive anatomy developed as they did. She connects comparative biology with the social assumptions that have often distorted research on women’s bodies. I keep it on this shelf because I want to keep my own point of view from becoming a small room.
Why I keep it
Evolution wrote the female body; I wanted the biology before the opinions.
Key ideas
FeminismSocietyResearchGender
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