Governing the Female Body

Lori Reed is an independent scholar living in Washington, DC. Paula Saukko is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. She is the author of The Anorexic Self: A Personal, Political Analysis of a Diagnostic Discourse, also published by SUNY Press, and Doing Research in Cultural Studies: An Introduction to Classical and New Methodological Approaches.

• IntroductionGoverning the Female Body: Three Dimensions of Power Paula Saukko & Lori ReedI. MEDIATED SELF-HEALTH 1. "It’s Down to You": Psychology, Magazine Culture, and Governing Female BodiesLisa Blackman2. Beyond Pill Scares? Online Discussions on Genetic Thrombophilia and Gendered Contradictions of Personalised MedicinePaula Saukko3. Gender, Pathology, Spectacle: Internet Addiction and the Cultural Organization of "Healthy" Computer UseLori ReedII. PRIVATIZATION AND THE BODY PROPER-TY 4. Pink Ribbons Inc.: The Emergence of Cause-Related Marketing and the Corporatization of the Breast Cancer MovementSamantha King5. Regulation through the Postfeminist Pharmacy: Promotional Discourse and MenstruationJoshua Gunn & Mary Douglas Vavrus6. Productive Bodies: Women, Work, and DepressionKristin A. SwensonIII. TRANSNATIONAL BODY POLITICS 7. "The Pill" in Puerto Rico and the Mainland United States: Negotiating Discourses of Risk and DecolonizationLaura Briggs8. Biopolitical Media: Population, Communications International, and the Governing of Reproductive HealthRonald Walter Greene & David Breshears9. Disciplining the Ethnic Body: Latinidad, Hybridized Bodies, and Transnational IdentityAngharad N. Valdivia & Isabel MolinaIV. SCIENCE, NATURE AND GENDER 10. "Doing What Comes Naturally..." Negotiating Normality in Accounts of IVF-FailureKaren Throsby11. Feminism’s Sex Wars and the Limits of GovernmentalityBarbara Mennel12. Beyond XX and XY: Living Genomic Sex Ingrid HolmeContributorsIndex

"This volume is an exciting exploration … [it] draws together a suitably diverse range of case studies to critically highlight the variety of ways in which gender and the female body are constituted as objects of knowledge and are also subject to government through discourses and practices related to health care … It demands that the gendered nature of power becomes subject to renewed critical scrutiny." — Foucault Studies"This book brings together an important range of contemporary topics and examines an understanding of women's bodies, governmentality, and power through different social processes and concepts with relevant examples … One of the strongest aspects of this book is its demonstration that women's bodies are subject to powerful discourses within the theaters of health and medicine in institutional settings as well as in everyday life." — H-Net Reviews (H-Histsex)"The essays in this collection argue for a richer understanding of personal choice and clearly point to the ways women's choices and understandings of body and 'self' are mitigated by social forces. This is an important work for scholars of women's studies and science and technology studies." — April Herndon, Winona State University