| Description |
xviii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Routledge student readers |
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Routledge student readers.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: PART ONE -- What is a body? 43 -- 1 Elizabeth Grosz -- REFIGURING BODIES 47 -- 2 Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- THE EXPERIENCE OF THE BODY AND -- CLASSICAL PSYCHOLOGY 52 -- 3 Hans Jonas -- THE BURDEN AND BLESSING OF MORTALITY 55 -- 4 Gilles Deleuze -- ETHOLOGY: SPINOZA AND US 58 -- 5 Judith Butler -- BODIES THAT MATTER 62 -- PART TWO -- Bodies and social (dis)order 67 -- 6 Marcel Mauss -- TECHNIQUES OF THE BODY 73 -- 7 Mary Douglas -- THE TWO BODIES 78 -- 8 Erving Goffman -- EMBODIED INFORMATION IN FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTION 82 -- 9 Pierre Bourdieu -- BELIEF AND THE BODY 87 -- 10 Mikhail Bakhtin -- THE GROTESQUE IMAGE OF THE BODY AND ITS SOURCES 92 -- 11 Norbert Elias -- CIVILIZATION AND PSYCHOSOMATICS 96 -- 12 Michel Foucault -- THE POLITICAL INVESTMENT OF THE BODY 100 -- PART THREE -- Bodies and identities 105 -- 13 Barbara Creed -- LESBIAN BODIES: TRIBADES, TOMBOYS AND TARTS 109 -- 14 Nicky Diamond -- THIN IS THE FEMINIST ISSUE 115 -- 15 Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs -- AGEING AND ITS EMBODIMENT 117 -- 16 Michael Moon and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- DIVINITY: A DOSSIER, A PERFORMANCE PIECE, -- A LITTLE-UNDERSTOOD EMOTION 122 -- 17 Beverley Skeggs -- AMBIVALENT FEMININITIES 129 -- 18 Allucquere Rosanne Stone -- IN NOVEL CONDITIONS: THE CROSS-DRESSING -- PSYCHIATRIST 135 -- 19 Judith Butler -- ENDANGERED/ENDANGERING: SCHEMATIC RACISM AND -- WHITE PARANOIA 140 -- PART FOUR -- Normal bodies (or not) 145 -- 20 Thomas Laqueur -- ORGASM, GENERATION, AND THE POLITICS OF -- REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY 151 -- 21 Stephen J. Gould -- MEASURING HEADS 158 -- 22 Allan Selula -- THE BODY AND THE ARCHIVE 163 -- 23 Lennard J. Davis -- VISUALIZING THE DISABLED BODY: THE CLASSICAL -- NUDE AND THE FRAGMENTED TORSO 167 -- 24 Peter Freund -- BODIES, DISABILITY AND SPACES: THE SOCIAL MODEL -- AND DISABLING SPATIAL ORGANISATIONS 182 -- 25 Georges Canguilhem -- MONSTROSITY AND THE MONSTROUS 187 -- PART FIVE -- Bodies in health and disease 195 -- 26 Emily Martin -- COMPLEX SYSTEMS 199 -- 27 Douglas Crimp -- PORTRAITS OF PEOPLE WITH AIDS 204 -- 28 Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- THE GLOBAL TRAFFIC IN HUMAN ORGANS 208 -- 29 Arthur Frank -- THE SELF UNMADE: EMBODIED PARANOIA 216 -- 30 Arthur Kleinman -- HYPOCHONDRIASIS: THE IRONIC DISEASE 219 -- PART SIX -- Bodies and technologies 231 -- 31 Carlos Novas and Nikolas Rose -- GENETIC RISK AND THE BIRTH OF THE SOMATIC -- INDIVIDUAL 237 -- 32 Donna J. Haraway -- THE BIOPOLITICS OF POSTMODERN BODIES: CONSTITUTIONS -- OF SELF IN IMMUNE SYSTEM DISCOURSE 242 -- 33 Claudia Springer -- THE PLEASURE OFTHE INTERFACE 247 -- 34 Paul Gilroy -- RACE ENDS HERE 251 -- 35 Catherine Waldby -- IATROGENESIS: THE VISIBLE HUMAN PROJECT AND -- THE REPRODUCTION OF LIFE 256 -- 36 Margaret Lock -- TWICE DEAD: ORGAN TRANSPLANTS AND -- THE REINVENTION OF DEATH 262 -- PART SEVEN -- Bodies in consumer culture 267 -- 37 Anne McClintock -- SOFT-SOAPING EMPIRE: COMMODITY RACISM AND -- IMPERIAL ADVERTISING 271 -- 38 Jean Baudrillard -- THE FINEST CONSUMER OBJECT: THE BODY 277 -- 39 Roberta Sassatelli -- THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF DISCIPLINE: -- KEEP-FIT CULTURE AND ITS VALUES 283 -- 40 Celia Lury -- THE UNITED COLORS OF DIVERSITY: -- ESSENTIAL AND INESSENTIAL CULTURE 288 -- 41 Marilyn Strathern -- ENTERPRISING KINSHIP: CONSUMER CHOICE AND -- THE NEW REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES 294 -- PART EIGHT -- Body ethics 301 -- 42 Peter Brown -- 'CLAY CUNNINGLY COMPOUNDED' 305 -- 43 Orlan on becoming-Orlan -- 'I DO NOT WANT TO LOOK LIKE ' 312 -- 44 Zygmunt Bauman -- SURVIVAL AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT 316 -- 45 Arthur Frank -- THE BODY'S PROBLEMS WITH ILLNESS 318 -- 46 Elaine Scarry -- THE BODY IN PAIN: THE MAKING AND -- UNMAKING OF THE WORLD 324 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-343) and index |
| Notes |
Also available online (Table of contents) |
| Subject |
Human body -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Résumés (Employment)
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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Human body.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
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| Author |
Fraser, Mariam, editor
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Greco, Monica, 1966- editor
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| LC no. |
2004046850 |
| ISBN |
0415340071 |
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9780415340076 |
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041534008X |
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9780415340083 |
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