The body : a reader

The body : a reader /

The body has become an increasingly significant concept over recent years and this work offers a stimulating overview of the main topics, perspectives and theories which surround the issue.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fraser, Mariam, Greco, Monica, 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Series:Routledge student readers
Subjects:
Human body.
Human body > Social aspects.
Human body > Moral and ethical aspects.
Corps humain.
Corps humain > Aspect social.
Corps humain > Aspect moral.
71.99 sociology: other.
Körper.
Philosophie
Menselijk lichaam.
Aufsatzsammlung
Aufsatzsammlung.
Table of Contents:
  • Refiguring bodies / Elizabeth Grosz
  • The experience of the body and classical psychology / Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • The burden and blessing of mortality / Hans Jonas
  • Ethology: Spinoza and us / Gilles Deleuze
  • Bodies that matter / Judith Butler
  • Techniques of the body / Marcel Mauss
  • The two bodies / Mary Douglas
  • Embodied information in face-to-face interaction / Erving Goffman
  • Belief and the body / Pierre Bourdieu
  • The grotesque image of the body and its sources / Mikhail Bakhtin
  • Civilization and psychosomatics / Norbert Elias
  • The political investment of the body / Michel Foucault
  • Lesbian bodies: tribades, tomboys and tarts / Barbara Creed
  • Thin is the feminist issue / Nicky Diamond
  • Ageing and its embodiment / Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs
  • Divinity: a dossier, a performance piece, a little-understood emotion / Michael Moon and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
  • Ambivalent femininities / Beverley Skeggs
  • In novel conditions: the cross-dressing psychiatrist / Allucquere Rosanne Stone
  • Endangered-endangering: schematic racism and white paranoia / Judith Butler
  • Orgasm, generation, and the politics of reproductive biology / Thomas Laqueur
  • Measuring heads / Stephen J. Gould
  • The body and the archive / Allan Sekula
  • Visualizing the disabled body: the classical nude and the fragmented torso / Lennard J. Davis
  • Bodies, disability and spaces: the social model and disabling spatial organisations / Peter Freund
  • Monstrosity and the monstrous / Georges Canguilhem
  • Complex systems / Emily Martin
  • Portraits of people with AIDS / Douglas Crimp
  • The global traffic in human organs / Nancy Scheper-Hughes
  • The self unmade: embodied paranoia / Arthur Frank
  • Hypochondriasis: the ironic disease / Arthur Kleinman
  • Genetic risk and the birth of the somatic individual / Carlos Novas and Nikolas Rose
  • The biopolitics of postmodern bodies: constitutions of self in immune system discourse / Donna J. Haraway
  • The pleasure of the interface / Claudia Springer
  • Race ends here / Paul Gilroy
  • Iatrogenesis: the visible human project and the reproduction of life / Catherine Waldby
  • Twice dead: organ transplants and the reinvention of death / Margaret Lock
  • Soft-soaping empire: commodity racism and imperial advertising / Anne McClintock
  • The finest consumer object: the body / Jean Baudrillard
  • The commercialization of discipline: keep-fit culture and its values / Roberta Sassatelli
  • The united colors of diversity: essential and inessential culture / Celia Lury
  • Enterprising kinship: consumer choice and the new reproductive technologies / Marilyn Strathern
  • 'Clay cunningly compounded' / Peter Brown
  • 'I do not want to look like ... ' / Orlan on becoming-Orlan
  • Survival as a social construct / Zygmunt Bauman
  • The body's problems with illness / Arthur Frank
  • The body in pain: the making and unmaking of the world / Elaine Scarry.

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