European Women’s Movements and Body Politics: The Struggle for Autonomy

✍ Scribed by Joyce Outshoorn (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 217
Series: Citizenship, Gender and Diversity
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Women’s Movements and Bodily Integrity....Pages 1-21
Constructing Bodily Citizenship in the Czech Republic....Pages 22-51
The Struggle for Bodily Integrity in the Netherlands....Pages 52-83
Contesting Portugal’s Bodily Citizenship....Pages 84-117
In Pursuit of Bodily Integrity in Sweden....Pages 118-152
Women’s Movements and Bodily Autonomy: Making the Case for Bodily Citizenship....Pages 153-177
Back Matter....Pages 178-203

✦ Subjects

Science, general

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