TY - JOUR
T1 - The Body in Revolt
T2 - The Impact and Legacy of Second Wave Corporeal Embodiment
AU - Fahs, Breanne
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - Tensions between second and third wave understandings of the body and embodiment have led to disagreements about whether to situate the body as corporeal and concrete or theoretical, diverse, and complex. Drawing from key tactics of the second wave women's health movement, including cervical viewing, menstrual extraction, genital diversity work, orgasm training, and self-defense classes, I first trace the political framing of the body in second wave feminism, followed by a consideration of third wave pedagogies transmitted through teaching the psychology of women. After analyzing the five most popular textbooks and ten syllabi for the psychology of women, I trace the stories about embodiment that have continued across waves and the stories that have shifted over time. I ultimately argue for a renewed consideration of how to merge the priorities of each wave into a new policy-driven and activist-centered understanding of corporeal embodiment both within and outside of the university.
AB - Tensions between second and third wave understandings of the body and embodiment have led to disagreements about whether to situate the body as corporeal and concrete or theoretical, diverse, and complex. Drawing from key tactics of the second wave women's health movement, including cervical viewing, menstrual extraction, genital diversity work, orgasm training, and self-defense classes, I first trace the political framing of the body in second wave feminism, followed by a consideration of third wave pedagogies transmitted through teaching the psychology of women. After analyzing the five most popular textbooks and ten syllabi for the psychology of women, I trace the stories about embodiment that have continued across waves and the stories that have shifted over time. I ultimately argue for a renewed consideration of how to merge the priorities of each wave into a new policy-driven and activist-centered understanding of corporeal embodiment both within and outside of the university.
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U2 - 10.1111/josi.12117
DO - 10.1111/josi.12117
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84931309848
SN - 0022-4537
VL - 71
SP - 386
EP - 401
JO - Journal of Social Issues
JF - Journal of Social Issues
IS - 2
ER -