Postmodern concepts of the body in Jeanette Winterson's `Written on the Body'.

Focuses on Jeanette Winterson's use and reworking of postmodern concepts of the body in her novel `Written on the Body.' Constructive ways of theorizing the female body; Critique of androcentric science and medicine to learn more about the female body; Winterson's manner of unsettling perceptions of gendered difference; Body image in women; Different meanings produced by the text.