Of Termites and Ovaries on Strike: Rethinking Medical Metaphors of the Female Body

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Of Termites and Ovaries on Strike: Rethinking Medical Metaphors of the Female Body

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Gender Studies Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Anthropology Aesthetics Factory (object-oriented programming)Sociology

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AbstractThis article explores how problematic or detrimental metaphors of the female body can be reimagined. Metaphors that compare the body to a machine or factory influence the ways in which wome...

year	journal	country	edition	language
2017-09-01	Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

https://doi.org/10.1086/692479

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