,The Body and Representation. Feminist Research and Theoretical Perspectives' was conceived as two weeks program within the International Women's University's project area BODY by the Center for Feminist Studies (ZFS) at the University of Bremen and organized in summer 2000. The publication includes results from lectures and seminars and additional contributions adding to main topics. Among the issues raised are concepts, staging, performances and representations of bodies in everyday life, political contexts, art and new media.

Insa Härtel, Ph.D., research assistant at the Center of Feminist Research and the department of Cultural Studies, University of Bremen, Germany; Sigrid Schade, Professor for Science of Art and Theory of Aesthetics and Vice-Spokesperson of the Center of Feminist Research, University of Bremen, Germany.