| Title | : | School for Pagan Lovers (Rutgers Press Fiction) |
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| ISBN | : | 0813519357 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780813519357 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 |
| Publication | : | First published August 1, 1993 |
Bodies may be currently fashionable in social and feminist theory, but their insides are not. Biological bodies always seem to drop out of debates about the body and its importance in Western culture. They are assumed to be fixed, their workings uninteresting or irrelevant to theory. Birke argues that these static views of biology do not serve feminist politics well. As a trained biologist, she uses ideas in anatomy and physiology to develop the feminist view that the biological body is socially and culturally constructed. She rejects the assumption that the body's functioning is somehow fixed and unchanging, claiming that biological science offers more than just a deterministic narrative of 'how nature works'. Feminism and the Biological Body puts biological science and feminist theory together and suggests that we need a politics which includes, rather than denies, our bodily flesh.
School for Pagan Lovers (Rutgers Press Fiction) Reviews
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Both the setting (Greece) and the plot (a young boy falling for his Greek teacher) combine to make a winner. Both humorous and poignant.
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This was a random find as I perused library shelves. I gave it a chance because it's set in Greece and I wanted to experience a Greek setting. THe story is rife with boring run-on sentences. And the plot is totally unbelievable! A teenage boy moves to Greece during the buildup to WWII. He has to go to the German School ... but he doesn't know German and so he needs a German tutor. So he has to learn Greek and German? Why not just Greek? This doesn't make sense! There had to be another way to work in the German girl! Argh! Implausible plots in published books make me mad!
