Includes bibliographical references (p. [152]-166) and index.
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Introduction : feminism, culture and embodied practice : the rhetorics of comparison -- Comparing cultures : feminist theory, anti-essentialism and new humanisms -- Critical frameworks : theorising intersectionality, relationality and embodiment -- Continuums and analogues : linking 'African' female genital cutting and 'Western' body modifications -- Constitutive comparisons : producing Muslim veiling, anorexia and 'Western' fashion and beauty practices -- Weaving relational webs : theorising cultural difference and embodied practice -- Postscript.