Female Body

I have a lot to say.
I am working on my thesis proposal. I would like to work on women's perception and interaction of female body. I would like to examine the case of Iranian women who were born in Iran and passed their childhood and teen ages in the Islamic context and them immigrated to Canada. I want to focus on the difference in their perception in female body. For completing my proposal, I am reading some stuff from Islam and Feminism, embodiment literature in Western tradition, contemporary Iran's history, colonialist feminist theories, etc. BUT none of them can articulate what I exactly expect of analyzing of female body. Today I get some books from the library about the philosophical perspective on embodiment and female body. I think this is what I desire of studying on female body. I should read philosophy more in this regard. I guess just in this case I can present some considerable analysis of the issue.
One of the main problems of interdisciplinary as Women's Studies, as I always mention, is the lack of powerful theoretical basis of the arguments. Programs as women's studies seem in designed more for action and social movements rather than producing knowledge. Although I am a omnipresent advocate of practice and action regarding to any abstract knowledge, it definitely does not mean that I am able to ignore the importance of theoretical and deep foundations of issues.

Anyway, I start reading:
1. The Body; Classic and Contemporary Reading. (1999) Edited by Donn Welton. This book includes writings of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, Foucault, Kristeva and Irigaray.
I am not sure I can deal with the philosophy in English language. I am scared a little bit. Will I understand?! I hope so.
2. Body and Flesh; A Philosophical Reader. Edited by the previous one!

P.S. I bought some painting supplements in order to start painting my old love in my life. I will put my paintings in the blog soon.
This is one of my new decisions. Take the art more seriously. It is the only effective way of impression :)