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The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction Paperback – August 1, 2001

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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.
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Spectacular. There is no better study of the power of metaphor in modern medicine. --Thomas W. Laqueur, author of Making Sex

"One of the greatest strengths of this fascinating book is Martin's careful analysis of how medical language about women's bodies reveals cultural assumptions about women and their life's purpose. . . . Highly recommended." --Judith Walzer Leavitt, Bullentin of the History of Medicine

"An important contribution. . . . In challenging the status of both bio-medical 'facts' and popular assumptions about women this book will stimulate scholars and students of gender, medicine, and American culture." --American Ethnologist

"Provocative. . . . Martin's conclusions are ground-breaking." --Julia Epstein, The Women's Review of Books

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Emily Martin is professor of anthropology at Princeton University and author of Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Beacon Press; Revised edition (August 1, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 312 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807046450
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807046456
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 1 year and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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Emily Martin is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at New York University. Her ethnographic projects have ranged from the anthropology of health and medicine to the history of the experimental method and the concept of data in experimental psychology. Her books include The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction (Beacon Press 1987), Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture From the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS (Beacon Press, 1994), and Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture (Princeton University Press, 2007. Her current project is described in Experiments of the Mind: From the Cognitive Psychology Lab to the World of Facebook and Twitter, (2021) from Princeton University Press.

• You can read more about her research here: “Persons of Interest” profile, “An Anthropologist Investigates How We Think About How We Think” by Ceridwen Dovey, The New Yorker, 2018

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What a great shock. I wish all my future needs can be handled by only you. Sometimes I am a bit hesitant about the review. In a large part, I think it is a hoax. Today I hereby purge myself of that perception. You just did excellently. I am very glad that I have a new look of a supposed used book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
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Being a woman still in the child birthing it really opened my eyes how a male dominant world make a woman feel she has no choices! Emily Martin even goes into the aspects of menopause and a woman's period and why some feel so ashamed by it. It definitely is a must read for Anthropology students!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Important part of the literature
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2014
As an Anthropologist who focused for many years on birth and culture this book was important. But more than that side it was important for me to read as a woman. I read it years before I had kids and then again when I was pregnant. It's not meant to be read like that but that was how I reminded myself that what I was going through was natural. I even made non-anthro friends read it and while they get bored easily of this type of stuff most of them found something new that they did like.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2011
A great and serious study about the "images" we create about our body. A clarified explanation about how the medical comunity sees and creates an idea of what the woman body is, by exploring some medical texts about reproduction, menopause or maternity.
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