The book of touch /
edited by Constance Classen.
- xii, 461 p ; 25 cm.
- Sensory formations .
- Sensory formations series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fingerprints : writing about touch / Contact / Tactile communication / Skinscapes : embodiment, culture and environment / Handling children : to touch or not to touch? / The American touch : tactile imagery in American religion and politics / Pleasure / The pleasures of touch / Homely pleasures : the pursuit of comfort in the eighteenth century / Bourgeois love : Mabel Loomis Todd / Desiring touch in Sartre and Beauvoir / Pain / The language of pain in India / The tortures of the Inquisition and the invention of modern guilt / Primate experiments : Harry Harlow and the technology of love / Sex, pain and the Marquis de Sade / Male bonding / The men's house : touching and wrestling among Mehinaku men / The imperial touch : schooling male bodies in colonial India, part I / The imperial touch : schooling male bodies in colonial India, part II / Sexuality and the drill : the body reconstructed in the military academy / The dying kiss : intimacy and gender in the trenches of the First World War / Women's touch / Saarak's crisis : childbirth and weaning in an Inuit community / Nu Shu : female writing in China / Feminine tactics : crafting an alternative aesthetics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Seamstress and marketwoman : working women in early twentieth-century Paris / The mosaic makers / Control / On medieval manners / Touch in the museum / Bourgeois perception : the gaze and the contaminating touch / In a Victorian prison : privations of the flesh / Uncommon touch / Phantom touch in "the case of George Dedlow" / Autism and "the squeeze machine" / Rainfall and the blind body / Tactilism / Visceral perception / Tactile therapies / Magical healing : the king's touch / Ayurvedic medicine and the history of massage / Breathing spaces : Qigong and healing / A touch of danger : the bedside manners of the eighteenth-century physician / The golden age of electrotherapy / Touch and technology / Polishing your heart : artisans and machines in Japan / Modernist fictions of speed / Grasping the image : how photographs are handled / "Make it snuggle in the palm" : the commodification of touch / Digital touch / Spacemaking : experiences of a virtual body / Constance Classen -- Constance Classen -- Ruth Finnegan -- David Howes -- Anthony Synnott -- David Chidester -- Constance Classen -- Yi-Fu Tuan -- John E. Crowley -- Peter Gay -- Penelope Deutscher -- Constance Classen -- Judy Pugh -- Ariel Glucklich -- Donna Haraway -- David B. Morris -- Constance Classen -- Thomas Gregor -- C. E. Tyndale-Biscoe -- Satadru Sen -- Klaus Theweleit -- Santanu Das -- Constance Classen -- Jean Briggs -- Wang Ping -- Constance Classen -- Madeleine Henrey -- Karli Whitmore -- Constance Classen -- Norbert Elias -- Constance Classen -- Peter Stallybrass and Allon White -- Philip Priestley -- Constance Classen -- S. Weir Mitchell -- Temple Grandin -- John Hull -- F. T. Marinetti -- Drew Leder -- Constance Classen -- Keith Thomas -- S. V. Govindan -- Nancy N. Chen -- Roy Porter -- Caroline Thomas de la Pena -- Constance Classen -- Dorinne Kondo -- Sara Danius -- Elizabeth Edwards -- Ray Sheldon and Egmont Arens -- Mark Paterson -- Susan Kozel. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42.
"This book puts a finger on the nerve of culture by delving into the social life of touch, our most elusive yet most vital sense. From the tortures of the Inquisition to the corporeal comforts of modernity, and from the tactile therapies of Asian medicine to the virtual tactility of cyberspace, The Book of Touch offers excursions into a sensory territory both foreign and familiar. How are masculine and feminine identities shaped by touch? What are the tactile experiences of the blind, or the autistic?" "How is touch developed differently across cultures? What are the boundaries of pain and pleasure? Is there a politics of touch? Bringing together classic writings and new work, The Book of Touch is an essential guide for anyone interested in the body, the senses and the experiential world."--BOOK JACKET.