Books by Margrit Shildrick

Drawing on postmodernist analyses, this volume presents a feminist investigation into the marginalization of women within western discourse that denies both female moral agency and embodiment. The anxiety that postmodernism cannot yield an ethics, nor advance feminist concerns is addressed.

Asks why we see some bodies as monstrous or vulnerable and examines what this tells us about ideas of bodily normality and bodily perfection. Drawing on feminist theories of the body, biomedical discourse and historical data, this title argues that the response to the monstrous body has always been ambivalent.