The body / edited by Tiffany Atkinson.
Material type: TextSeries: Readers in cultural criticismPublisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005Description: x, 222 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0333765338
- 9780333765333
- 0333765346
- 9780333765340
- 306.4613 23
- HM636 .B583 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-216) and index.
1. Introduction / Tiffany Atkinson -- 2. The renaissance body : from colonisation to invention / Jonathan Sawday -- 3. Second meditation : of the nature of the human mind; and that it is easier to know than the body / Rene Descartes -- 4. A case of hysteria : Fraulein Elisabeth von R. / Sigmund Freud -- 5. The incitement to discourse / Michel Foucault -- 6. From 'seduction and guilt' / Catherine Clement -- 7. 'Who kills whores?' 'I do', says Jack : race and gender in Victorian London / Sander L. Gilman -- 8. Nietzscheanism and the novelty of the superman / Maurizia Boscagli -- 9. Male bodies and the white terror / Klaus Theweleit -- 10. From 'the fact of blackness' / Frantz Fanon -- 11. Womanliness as a masquerade / Joan Riviere -- 12. The anorexic body : reading disorders / Abigail Bray -- 13. Introduction to Bodies that matter / Judith Butler -- 14. From 'intensities and flows' / Elizabeth Grosz -- 15. Beyond food/sex : eating and an ethics of existence / Elspeth Probyn -- 16. Piercings / Marianna Torgovnick.
"What do we mean when we talk about "the body"? This reader challenges the assumption that it can be invoked as a neutral, or indeed natural, point of reference in critical discussion or cultural practice. The essays collected here foreground the historical construction of "the body" throughout a range of discourses from the modern to the postmodern, and seek to present it not as a biological "given," but as a contestable signifier in the articulation of identities."--Publisher description.
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