Kathy Davis - Articles - feminist scholarship on women's bodies and health

ARTICLES

2009

(with Lorraine Nencel) Border Skirmishes and the Question of Belonging: an autoethnographical account of everyday exclusions in the Netherlands, In Ethnicity, Belonging and Biography. Ethnographical and Biographical Perspectives, edited by Gabriele Rosenthal and Artur Bogner. Münster: LIT Verlag.

2008

Intersectionality in Transnational Perspective, In ÜberKreuzungen. Fremdheit, Ungleichheit, Differenzen, edited by Cornelia Klinger and Gudrun-Axeli Knapp. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot.
Intersectionality as Buzzword. A sociology of science perspective on what makes a feminist theory successful, Feminist Theory 9, 1:67-85. [PDF File]

2007

Reclaiming Women's Bodies: Colonialist Trope or Critical Epistemology? The Sociological Review 55, s1: 50-64.
Rethinking "Normal," Hastings Center Report, May-June: 44-47.

2006

Feminist Politics of Location, In Handbook for Gender and Women's Studies, edited by Kathy Davis, Mary Evans and Judith Lorber. London: Sage.
The Global Localization of Feminist Knowledge: Translating Our Bodies, Ourselves, In The Gender Question in Globalization, edited by Tine Davids and Francien Van Driel. Aldershot: Ashgate.

2005

Implicaciones politicas al traducer Our Bodies, Ourselves, Historia Antropología y Fuentes Orales 32, 3: 61-68.
(with Helma Lutz) Geschlechterforschung und Biographieforschung: Intersektionalität als biographische Ressource am Beispiel einer außergewöhnlichen Frau, In Biographieforschung im Diskurs, edited by Bettina Völter, Bettina Dausien, Helma Lutz, and Gabriele Rosenthal. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
Lonely Heroes and Great White Gods: Medical Stories, Masculine Stories, In Gender, Bodies and Work , edited by David Morgan, Berit Brandth, and Elin Kvande. Aldershot: Ashgate.

2004

Between moral outrage and cultural relativism, Feminist Theory 5, 3: 305-311.
The Passions and Perils of Sisterhood, Feminism & Psychology 14, 3: 453-457.
Biografía como metodología crítica, Historia Antropologia y Fuentes Orales 30:153-160.

2003

Surgical Passing: Or why Michael Jackson's nose makes 'us' uneasy, Feminist Theory 4, 1:73-92. [PDF File]
"A Dubious Equality": Men, women, and cosmetic surgery, Body & Society 8, 1: 49-65.
Feminist Body/politics as World Traveller: Translating Our Bodies, Ourselves, European Journal of Women's Studies 9, 3: 223-247. [PDF file]

2002

(with Helma Lutz) Traveling theorists. On biographical border crossing and feminist imagination, In Levensverhalen, edited by Kathy Davis, Christien Brinkgreve, Bart van Heerikhuizen, and Bernard Kruithof. Amsterdam Sociologisch Tijdschrift: 38-58.
Embodying Theory: Beyond Modernist and Postmodernist Readings of the Body. In Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics, 2nd edition, edited by Judith Lorber. Los Angeles: Roxbury.
Critical Sociology and Gender Relations. In Power: A Reader, edited by Mark Haugaard. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

2001

Pygmalions in Plastic Surgery: Medical Stories, Masculine Stories. In: Wild Science. Reading Feminism, Medicine and the Media, edited by Janine Marchessault and Kim Sawchuk. London: Routledge.
(met Helma Lutz) Life in Theory: Three Feminist Thinkers on Transition(s), European Journal of Women's Studies 7, 3:367-378.

1999

Cosmetic Surgery in a Different Voice: The Case of Madame Noël, Women's Studies International Forum 22, 5: 473-488.
The Rise of the Surgical Fix, In Health, Illness, and Healing, edited by K. Charmaz and D.A. Paterniti. Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Company.
Bedroom Secrets and Troublesome Politics: The Problem of Integrating Life and Work in the Biographies of Famous Feminists, The European Journal of Women's Studies 6, 3: 373-377.

1998

Pygmalions in Plastic Surgery. Medical Stories, Masculine Stories, Health 2, 1: 23-40.
(with Ine Gremmen) In Search of Heroines. Some Reflections on Normativity in Feminist Research, Feminism & Psychology 8, 2: 133-153.
Luxury or Welfare? The Rhetoric of Cosmetic Surgery, In Enhancing Human Capacities: Conceptual Complexities and Ethical Implications, edited by Erik Parens. Washington, D.C., Georgetown University Press.
Facing the Dilemma, In Sex/Machine. Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology, edited by Patrick D. Hopkins. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Founding Mothers and Rebellious Daughters. The Problem of the Generation Gap in Feminist historiography, The European Journal of Women's Studies 5, 2: 74-279.

1997

'My Body is My Art': Cosmetic Surgery as Feminist Utopia? The European Journal of Women's Studies 4, 1: 23-38
What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? The Ambivalences of Professional Feminism, In Knowing Feminisms. On Academic Borders, Territories and Tribes, edited by Liz Stanley. London: Sage.
'Was will der Mann? Some Reflections on Theorizing Masculinity, ' Theory & Psychology 7, 4: 579-588.
'All that glitters is not gold': Cultural studies of the Body, The European Journal of Women's Studies 4, 2: 240-242.

1996

From Objectified Body to Embodied Subject: A Biographical Approach to Cosmetic Surgery, In Feminist Social Psychologies, edited by Sue Wilkinson. Oxford: Open University Press.
Feminist Freudian Tales, The European Journal of Women's Studies 3, 1: 89-90.

1995

Auto/Biography and Feminist Sociology, the European Journal of Women's Studies 2, 1: 131-133.

1994

1993

Nice Doctors and Invisible Patients: The Problem of Power in Feminist Common Sense, In The Social Organization of Doctor-Patient Communication, 2nd edition, edited by Sue Fisher and Alexandra Dundas Todd. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex.

1992

Toward a Feminist Rhetoric: The Gilligan-Debate Revisited, Women's Studies International Forum 15, 2: 219-231.

1991

Re-Making the She-Devil. A Critical Look at Feminist Approaches to Beauty, Hypatia 6, 2: 21-43.

1988

Paternalism under the Microscope, In Gender and Discourse. The Power of Talk, edited by Alexandra Dundas Todd and Sue Fisher. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex.

1986

The Process of Problem (Re)formulation in Psychotherapy, Sociology of Health & Illness 8, 1: 44-74.

1984

Women as Patients. A Problem for Sex-Differences Research? Women's Studies International Forum 7, 4: 211-217.